Unusual Installations and Music on the Trubophone Featured in the New Season of the SUSU OkNo gallery

From October 6^th through 27^th, the SUSU OkNo Gallery of Modern Art will be presenting projects by Olga Grazhdankina and Pavel Pakharukov, “Meaning and Intention: Contamination” (graphics, ceramics, and installations).

The "Meaning and Intention: Contamination" Project is the result of a search for innovative artists. Contamination is blending and combining. Literally, it’s the appearance of new shared concepts from separate but related elements. The combining, for example, of paints and clean paper, of print and brushstroke, clay and movement are attempts at taking two existing objects and creating a third which contains the meaning of its previously existing parts. The exhibit is a history of the appearance of meaning from combined works by a sculptor and graphic artist and their interaction in one space, where Olga Grazhdankina’s hardly audible brushstrokes of moving graphics enter a dialogue with the metaphorical, decorative ceramics by Pavel Pakharukov.

The most unexpected and fearless work by the two artists is an installation of bamboo rods, wool yarn, and pieces of other materials. The large-scale installation is an experiment by the two artists in finding a new, combined and non-contradictory language to move intention to meaning.

The combination, or contamination, of audience experience with artistic expression always gives birth to new meanings and emotions. In the project “Meaning and Intention: Contamination”, the combination of male and female perspective, flat and three-dimensional creations, monochrome and color, and the random with the unpredictable all become the subject of interpretation. The reflection or shadow of a subject is already not the object itself but its continuation beyond its own existence using a middle-man. For artists Olga Grazhdankina and Pavel Pakharukov and their work, the middle-man is the audience.

The opening will be held October 6^th at 18:30. Entrance by invitation. The musical project Fortissimo will have a special performance at the opening ceremony using unique instruments created from water pipes – the trubophone. 

The exhibition will be open to the public from October 7^th to October 27^th. Hours of operation: Monday-Friday 15:00-19:00, Saturday 14:00-18:00.
Curator – Nataliya Sannikova.

The following master classes are being held as part of the exhibit:

October 15^th at 15:30 – Olga Grazhdankina. Printing graphics with spoons.
October 22^nd  at 14:30 – Pavel Pakharukov. Ceramics on a pottery wheel.
October 27^th at 18:00 – Fortissimo Project. Playing the Trubophone and other unusual musical instruments. Gallery address: Chelyabinsk, Soni Krivoy 79A. Entrance through the Mannequin studio theatre by the pay what you want system.