On September 23, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin opened Modernikon, an exhibition of works by contemporary Russian artists. Over the course of three years, curator Francesco Bonami selected twenty artists of various generations from a total of eighty portfolios. This is the first exhibition in the upcoming Year of Italy in Russia/Russia in Italy (2011).
 

The foundation has organized its exhibition space in such a way that practically each of the artists has their own small room or cubbyhole. GMG Gallery artist Alina Gutkina has even been given three such rooms. In the video works on display at the show, Gutkina investigates the problem of invididual subcultural identity. Alina shot three short films about teenage boys: each of the videos presents a day in their lives.
 

The other GMG Gallery artist selected by Bonami for the show is Yakov Kazhdan. His piece Ordinary Grand Stil critically examines the possibilities for the existence of the documentary image, which is not authentic, but alters according to the needs of the author’s narrative. Addressing the notion of the “grand style” (the work’s title contains a play on words that alludes to Mikhail Romm’s famous documentary film Ordinary Fascism (1965)), Kazhdan questions the “aesthetic of classic documentary cinema, which turns out to be a find for ideology, in which the human aspect becomes a cliché.”

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On January 29 as part of the opening of Irma Sharikadze exhibition Letters, a panel discussion Letters as a genre. Conscious and unconscious in women's art took place.

 

8 women from different art spheres gathered at GMG Gallery:

 

The culture of writing is the concept rarely used in modern dynamic world. Skype, ICQ, SMS and blogs have replaced written personal diaries and welcome letters in envelopes. Can artist's diary become a work of art? How important is the letter to self for women's spirits?

 

The guests revealed their perception of the modern culture of writing, discussed the importance of self-communication as a means of psychotherapy and spring of creativity.