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Recycle Group. New Nature: In Search of Gravitsappa
Exhibition July 16 − September 15, 2021
The Manezh Central Exhibition Hall presents an exhibition "Recycle Group. New Nature: In Search of the Gravitsappa".
The creative duo of Andrei Blokhin and Georgy Kuznetsov (Recycle Group) made an attempt to materialize the immaterial - the thought processes and imagination of artificial intelligence.
The New Nature exhibition at the Manezh in St. Petersburg turned out to be excellent, witty, and full of large-scale and unexpected images. It begins with the installation "System Answers": it's a world ocean (actually, sheets of mirrored metal on the floor with funnels of drips), out of which a new computer life is born. Then we pass impressive high reliefs of plastic mesh: humans and humanoid robots either passing knowledge to each other or fighting for world domination. We pass the majestic "Gate" (the entrance to purgatory), woven from corrugated tubes, and find ourselves in the monastery courtyard, the cloister; and in its center we find a funnel with flickering lights - a portal to other dimensions, albeit made of rubber and fiber-optic lights. The apogee of the exhibit is the plastic jungle called "The Forest of Expired References" on the second floor. Here it is - new nature. Everything is very dramatic: black as tar banana bushes are as if drenched in oil. They are flanked by large-scale "paintings" - landscapes made of cellular polycarbonate. One landscape is like a bloody sunset, the second - the sea in a storm. And even the finale does not bring tranquility. The installation The Garden of Diverging Stones twists the classic Japanese garden: the stones somehow magically, like cockroaches, spread in different directions, and the viewer, instead of meditating and relaxing, tries hard to guess their trajectory. All in all, there are many wonders in the Manezh now, and this is the case when it is better to see once than to describe for a long time.
Prepared according to the materials of the website Manezh Central Exhibition Hall.
The creative duo of Andrei Blokhin and Georgy Kuznetsov (Recycle Group) made an attempt to materialize the immaterial - the thought processes and imagination of artificial intelligence.
The New Nature exhibition at the Manezh in St. Petersburg turned out to be excellent, witty, and full of large-scale and unexpected images. It begins with the installation "System Answers": it's a world ocean (actually, sheets of mirrored metal on the floor with funnels of drips), out of which a new computer life is born. Then we pass impressive high reliefs of plastic mesh: humans and humanoid robots either passing knowledge to each other or fighting for world domination. We pass the majestic "Gate" (the entrance to purgatory), woven from corrugated tubes, and find ourselves in the monastery courtyard, the cloister; and in its center we find a funnel with flickering lights - a portal to other dimensions, albeit made of rubber and fiber-optic lights. The apogee of the exhibit is the plastic jungle called "The Forest of Expired References" on the second floor. Here it is - new nature. Everything is very dramatic: black as tar banana bushes are as if drenched in oil. They are flanked by large-scale "paintings" - landscapes made of cellular polycarbonate. One landscape is like a bloody sunset, the second - the sea in a storm. And even the finale does not bring tranquility. The installation The Garden of Diverging Stones twists the classic Japanese garden: the stones somehow magically, like cockroaches, spread in different directions, and the viewer, instead of meditating and relaxing, tries hard to guess their trajectory. All in all, there are many wonders in the Manezh now, and this is the case when it is better to see once than to describe for a long time.
Prepared according to the materials of the website Manezh Central Exhibition Hall.
