Peter Belyi, Andrei Rudjev / Sankt Peterburg

New Rust

The project ‘New Rust’ attempts to find the place of traditional drawing within the processes of contemporary art where a drawn element is not an end in itself but a part of the whole. ‘New figurative shards’ embedded in an abstract landscape of rusted roof metal address the viewer partly to a picture by an anonymous artist who tends to see the outlines of nature in the rust and partly to an art object. The consciously created confusion reflects, in the opinion of the artists, a blurring of the boundaries of current times and the confused condition of the visible in modern times, the deficit of simplicity in the overloaded complexity of the here and now acts here as a metaphor of the state of contemporary society.

supported by:
National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia