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Master Class and Exhibition of Works by Peter Shvetsov, Shadowy Games On 18 December 2004 Peter Shvetsov conducted a master class entitled Shadowy Games. The Visualization of Shadows. An Attempt to Delimit the Presence of a Student in Museum Space. The class was held in the State Hermitage's Youth Center and was organized jointly by the State Hermitage and the St Petersburg branch of the State Center for Contemporary Art. Just before the master class was held, an exhibition of works by the artist called Shadowy Space opened. The project is part of the educational program Topical Art in Petrograd, Leningrad, Petersburg and has as its objective the creation of an integral miniature space in two tiny rooms of the General Staff building. The result is a kind of inside-out museum, the museum's dark storage area, in which everything reminds us of the transience of time. Petersburg modern artist Peter Shvetsov is concerned about such subjects as death, places of suffering, snares, archeology, and the time-space relationship. The various formats of things and their fragmentary character are brought together by the idea of uselessness of conservation and viscous, sticky time, which leaves a grimace of decay on everything it touches. Shade and pale cold light - the stark contrast to stately spaces of the main museum of the country - is a shadowy space in which fears and phobias live, where there are gloomy and miserable beings, something without clear form and solidity. A metaphor for this space is the artist's painted work in the "black on black" style which is installed in a small room, a black cube, or more accurately, Malevich's famous square as seen in three-dimensions. This is an attempt to look beyond the canvas, beyond the wall, the eternal wish "to pierce through the bull's-eye drawn on the wall." Visitors enter the installation rooms one at a time after passing through a shadow screen which casts their silhouette onto a sheet of carton. The director of the project is S.V. Kudryavtseva, head of the State Hermitage's Youth Center and doctor of art history. |
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