{"id":182,"date":"2019-11-15T20:02:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T20:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2021-01-02T10:47:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T10:47:33","slug":"art-exhibition-kaliningrad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/art-exhibition-kaliningrad\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Exhibition Kaliningrad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019ll have that painting and, by the way, how much for the flat?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Saturday 9 November 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today we were off to an art exhibition. Of the\nexhibition I knew little or nothing, except that it would be different and was\nby invitation only. Oksana, our neighbour, had invited\nus, and the \u2018different\u2019 element made all the difference in that I was very\ncurious. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I had no idea what to expect, as, in Oksana\u2019s car, we pulled into a cramped carpark opposite a new red-brick block of flats. A group of people were walking alongside the building to a gate and were directed back from whence they came ~ we followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the opposite side of the building we were shown\ninto a narrow corridor. A woman, carrying a clipboard, appeared. The group, of\nwhich we were a part, about 20 in total, lined up on either side of the\ncorridor, whilst the clipboard lady delivered a short introductory talk, about\nwhich, of course, I understood nothing. Then we filed through the door and took\nthe lift to one of the floors above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Designer
Modern Chic or Retro Chic?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The block of flats we were in was new and unfinished, but the corridors, at least on the floors we were occupying, appeared to be in quite an advanced stage of completion. Chunky white door surrounds and white walls dominated the d\u00e9cor. From a distance it appeared as if a series of thin slate-like slithers of different dimensions had been painstakingly inserted at various depths to give a naturalistic, uneven surface finish to the walls, but on closer inspection you could see, as with even the best toup\u00e9es, where the join was. Cunningly, the complexity of construction had been made considerably easier by the slate pieces being mounted on, or integral to, brick blocks. As modern as this was supposed to be, I could not help feel that there was something rather retro about the whole ensemble, so much so that it would not have surprised me had Russian versions of John Steed and Emma Peel come sauntering out from one the flats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Designer
Flats for sale, Kaliningrad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The flats themselves were at the stage known here as \u2018grey\nscale\u2019. This is an apt description, which means that the walls and ceilings\nhave been plastered and skimmed but no finishing d\u00e9cor has been applied. There\nwere no internal doors as yet but the double-glazing was in, as were the rads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concept\nexplained<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The concept of the art exhibition was an interesting\none. My wife explained it to me. A number of empty flats in the building had\nbeen requisitioned to serve as exhibition halls. Each participating flat ether\ncontained the displayed work of one individual artist or, if the artist\u2019s\ncontribution was less prolific, one room would be allocated. Thus, in some\nflats you would find the work of one artist and in others the work of, say,\nthree artists, housed in separate rooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concept worked surprisingly well. Since the walls\nof the flats were grey-scale they provided the perfect neutral backdrop and as,\napart from the artwork, the only other items in the rooms were display units,\nadvertising brochures and the odd bottle of mineral water, distraction had been\nobviated. Even the display modules were as basic as they could be ~ simple\nunobtrusive plinths and the occasional wooden easel. As there were few wall\nhooks in evidence, many of the exhibits were placed at ground level. This was\nin hindsight one possible flaw, as arguably the works in question were not\nshown at their best in this position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition rooms not all being situated on one\nfloor meant that the viewing public had to hop into lifts and run up and down\nstairs, and this alone added an interesting twist to what was already a novel\nconcept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Yri<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Yri<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Among the contributing artists whom we liked best was the work of Yri Bulechev and a second artist who, to add intrigue to his work, wished to remain anonymous. We did learn that the anonymous artist was by profession an engineer, and this calling was demonstrated thematically throughout his art. The focus subject matter was portrait: strained, tense faces with worried, uncertain eyes, apprehensive, frightened even, contextualised within a claustrophobic grid, an invasive backdrop of lines, narrow rectangles and circles, which reminded me of the geometrical patterns that I used to draw as a nipper with the aid of my then trendy Spirograph<\/em> set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Anonymous
Modern consciousness<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This background fretwork ramped up the element of\ntension, especially since it invaded the human features, as if intermeshing the\nfrailty of the human condition with the modern world\u2019s increasing connectivity,\nthe pressures that such a Brave New World inflicts and the hard-wired\nengineering by which our lives are ruled and controlled. That my good lady wife\nliked these paintings, indeed was drawn to them so much that she put in a bid\nfor two, was, given her penchant for the light, airy and positive, somewhat\nsurprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One painting she particularly liked was that of female\nface. It was, in fact, half a female face, the portrait painted on the very\nedge of the substrate with half of the image missing. Taught and compelling,\nthe one eye blue and bright reflected something like fear, and there again was that\nall-pervasive geometrical static, smothering the backdrop and overlaying the\nstartled features. Interestingly enough ~ but remember the artist\u2019s vocation ~\nthis art form had not been painted on board or canvas but brought to life and\ninto the world on a sheet of rusty iron. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Art
Half way there<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The industrial-look of this artist\u2019s work was\nindubitably enhanced by the stark, incomplete environment in which it was\ndisplayed, a factor which also fed into the large picture of a Russian female\ncomedy actress, noted, I was told, for her happy-go-lucky and comical\ntypecasting, drawn or painted all in white, whilst the dark shadowy head and\nface of Anthony Hopkins\u2019 Hannibal Lecter (Silence<\/em>\nof the Lambs<\/em>) looks predatorily over\nher shoulder with a hunger in no way related to the baguette that the actress\nis ready to eat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Silence<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As a long-time devotee of Leonard Cohen, Lord Byron\nand Edgar Allan Poe, and being continually reminded by my wife that I am bleak\nand melancholic, these pieces should have been right up my nightmare street\nand, I have to confess, I enjoyed them, but on this occasion incongruously a\nrole reversal had taken place, with me feeling enthusiastic about a large\npainting in contrasting pastel and vivid colours depicting two stylized lovers\nfloating in the luminous air somewhere between Heaven and Earth. Seldom have I\nseen such a picture which radiates instant Karma ~ so soothing, idyllic, tranquil\nand so ethereal in every sense. Until, that is, I discovered how much it cost. Brought\nquickly down to earth again by the asking price of (ssshhhh!), I am yet\ninclined to say that the painting is worth every ruble ~ it was only my wallet\nholding me back!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Yri
Yri Bulechev composition, which would look very nice hanging above my bed!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Seldom have I seen such a picture which radiates instant Karma ~ so soothing, idyllic, tranquil and so ethereal in every sense. <\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Flat 10<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

During our wandering from room to room, I had had the\ngood fortune of being addressed by a very tall, very attractive young Russian\nwoman, dressed in red leather trousers and elevated on a pair of block high\nheel shoes that seemed to be giving me vertigo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She told me, among other things, that the best was yet\nto come ~ wait until you get to apartment number 10, she said. Funny, but the\nlast two exhibit rooms before I got to number 10 are difficult to remember. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am tempted to say that all I can recall about flat 10\nwas that it contained a massive king-size bed and a bath tub large enough for\nfour Donald Trumps, but, in reality, I can remember quite a lot more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flat 10 was a showcase flat. It had been given the\npersonalised designer treatment and as with all ~ or most ~ of the paintings\nhere on display was up for grabs if you wanted it. Indeed, I was told by the\ninteresting young lady who was talking to me in very good English that I could\nbuy it if I wanted to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Flat 10 as illustrated on the cover of the art exhibition advertising leaflet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Well, did I?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The old adage that first impressions count may or may not be true, but it is as good a place to start as any. I may have been the only one amongst today\u2019s privileged public to have made a mental note that the door design harked back to the Soviet era, in that access to the apartment (too grand to call it a flat) was governed by two doors in close proximity: first the traditional Russian heavy weight external door with its Fort Knox bolting system and then a more conventional door painted in non-conventional salmon pink. Beyond this curiosity, one walked into a tall, narrow corridor flanked by what appeared to be grey veneered paneling but which was, we discovered later, discreetly shuttered cabinet space. As one would expect from a modern designer flat, the accent was placed firmly on minimalist d\u00e9cor and maximalist space-exploitation. The floor-to-ceiling paneling, which was utilised again in the walkway between the master bedroom and bathroom, was as discreet as it was maximising, and this was because, as with the kitchen cabinets, all of the grey paneled doors had been built sans-handles. All one needed to do to access the space beyond was to touch lightly and the doors pop open. Nothing wrong with that, I thought, unless, of course, you have just woken up from a nightmare in which the world had been robbed of its handles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have a fetish for handles, the flat had a place\nfor them. Indeed, as designer flats go, this one was very much built with a\nplace for everything and everything in its place. The wall directly opposite\nthe entrance has been thoughtfully provided with floor-to-ceiling box shelving\nin a beech-veneered wood, the rectangular display units varying in size being\nreminiscent of the modular concept. Space such as this could hold any number of\ndifferent sized handles and anything else for that matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Space optimisation at its best!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By turning left you were heading to the master\nbedroom, which was located on the right, with the toilet and bathroom opposite.\nFirst impressions again: the door with its angled lozenge panels. These I\nliked. They were one of only two nods in this ultra-modern flat to the past and\nto antiquity. As for the master bedroom, I was not quite sure whether it was\nsomewhat small or whether the bed was very large, but any risk of complete\nclaustrophobia was dispelled by the timely inclusion of a large glass window\nthat looked out into the covered balcony beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next stop, however, was the bathroom. I have\nalready referenced the bath tub. It was big. And so was the fixed shower rose\nabove it. As the musician and singer Judge Dread once said, \u2018I haven\u2019t see one\nas big as that before\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The toilet was round the corner in a separate place of\nits own and here we were in for more surprises. No, it wasn\u2019t a bucket; it was\nas designer-modern as the rest of it. We were shown into the toilet cubicle in\nthe dark, but no matter as the inside of the pan was illuminated with little\nblue lights and the seat popped up automatically. Really, there was no way that\nyou could not be impressed. I whispered to my entranced wife that such a toilet\nas this was made for a hypochondriac such as me. I had reached the age where\nailments and hospital tests are more prevalent than hot dinners, and an\nilluminated toilet bowl was an excellent idea for checking your stools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My wife refrained from comment (a phenomenal moment in\nitself), perhaps because she was already peering inside another room hidden\naway behind more grey paneling. This was a narrow room, also accessible by the\npaneling on the inside of the apartment door. It was here where you did your\nwashing and hung your clothes out to dry. On one side there were a couple of 21st<\/sup>\ncentury washing machines and elevated above them an up-to-the-minute tumble\ndryer; on the other, there were fitted wardrobes and shelves for your clothes. This\nwas so right. The very idea of hanging your socks, pants and sundries over the\nedge of the balcony just would not work in a place like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Room with a view<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We were on the balcony next. Make no mistake, this was no khrushchev flat. The balcony was completely self-contained, a great plate of double-glazed glass extending from the yellow-ridged floor to the dizzy heights of the ceiling. The wall had appropriately ~ given the artistic concept by which the event was defined ~ been fitted out with two large abstract paintings, whilst a handsome reproduction antique desk and swivel desk chair demonstrated how the space therein could be utilised as an additional \u2018room\u2019, in this case as an office. I liked this balcony. It was, as they say in British estate agents\u2019 parlance, well-appointed, and I could honestly see myself sitting there typing away on an evening as I tried to resist supping beer in the nearby London Pub. I could not, however, see myself walking there ~ too much ~ as impressive as the modern floor structure was, like most modern floors today which are made of composite wood it tended to shift and creak. Not good if like the Sheik of Araby, you tend to creep about at night, and in a compact space-saving flat like this no one could blame you for feeling so inclined, particularly as this balcony contained an adjoining door to the guest room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Art
Balcony Flat 10<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Although the guest room was rather small, containing a kind of settee bed, the strategic positioning of a slim vertical mirror opposite the balcony entrance and a wide mirror on the wall facing it, created the illusion of much more space than there was, particularly when the tall, Baroque-style door from bedroom to sitting area was left open. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking back at this door, from the sitting room to the guest bedroom, endorsed my earlier prejudice that the lozenge-shaped panels struck an essential and clever juxtaposition, the geometrical profile, although simple, being the perfect foil to handle-less cabinets and satin-smooth textures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Art
Sitting pretty … well, at least sitting on something pretty!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The sitting room and kitchen were, in essence, a double act. The sitting room determined by its flat wall-mounted TV screen and serpentine-shaped comfy settee and the kitchen starting, but partly concealed, behind a tall block screen. If anything did not work for me inside this flat it was the screen. It was dark-coloured and its height and breadth reminded me of the type of front desks that you feel belittled by in old Soviet-style hotels, such as Kaliningrad\u2019s Moscow. Behind the front desk in this room, there were the kitchen work surfaces and state-of-the-art kitchen appliances and, immediately behind them, and soaring up behind them, a monolithic formation of touch-door operated fitted-kitchen cabinets. I am a beans-on-toast man myself, but even I could see that for kitchen aficionados there was nothing wanting in high-tech, or in ultra-swish, clean and easily cleanable where this kitchen was concerned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Flats
As I gaze thoughtfully at the ceiling stencil in the Swish kitchen … <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The one thing that I have omitted to mention so far is\nthe absence of a proper ceiling ~ by proper I mean traditional. In fact, there\nis no ceiling, at least no plasterboard painted ceiling. Above your head in\nthis flat the concrete structure looks down on you in all its unexpurgated and\nnatural naked glory. I like it. It melds perfectly into the industrial and\nsteampunk ethos by which we live our modern lives, from train station to\nairport, from caf\u00e9 bar to attic revamp, it is the modern-day equivalent of the\nnuts, bolts and rivets statement which defined the architecture of the\nindustrial revolution. That it has followed us into our homes should not surprise\nus, but in this flat, just in case it did, the designers had taken the\ndecorative precaution of stenciling onto the overhead concrete an elaborate\nsequence of scrolls, this constituting the second nod to antiquity, as the\ndistinctive outline and shell-like form is unmistakably related to the family Rococo.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a man who has spent most of his life dodging\nminimalism as if it were the plague, I have to confess that I was happily\nengaged by what I had witnessed today and the way that it had affected me.\nThere is every possibility that I will never be able to look at a half-finished\nflat again without thinking, \u2018this needs artwork\u2019 or \u2018what I could do with this\nspace if only I had the creative vision of the designers of flat number 10\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mick<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Essential Details:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\n

Kvartirnik<\/strong> Exhibition<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The\nexhibition is a joint offline project of the ART SPACE Internet Gallery and\nPEPA HOME STEGING, which prepares real estate for sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project Organisers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stepanyuk Natalya, Exhibition Curator & Artist (examples of her works exhibited)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kiseleva Tatyana, Architect & Interior Designer <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contributing Artists Include:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baeva,\nNatalya<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elfimov,\nGeorge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elfimova,\nLyudmila<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bulychev,\nYuri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

el cartoon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kiseleva,\nTatyana<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stepanyuk,\nNatalya<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vernikovskaya,\nOlga<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chepkasova,\nNatalya<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elfimov,\nAlexander Prokopyevich<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apartment Design<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tatyana Kiseleva, Architect (planning, interior design, furniture and all interior items)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personalised Interior Design Project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following consultation\nwith the architect, an individual planning solution is offered to any buyer of\nany apartment in the building this article features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information, contact<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tatyana\nKiseleva<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tel: +7\n9211033313<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KSK Real Estate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • \"Art
    Life’s a bowl of …<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
  • \"Art
    He who wears the crown<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
  • \"Art
    Life is what you make it<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
  • \"Art
    Sowing the seed …<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
  • \"Art
    This way and that<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
  • \"Art
    Going potty<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
  • \"Art
    Worth a closer look<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
  • \"Art
    Haven’t we met before?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
  • \"Art
    In my dreams<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Copyright \u00a9 2018-2021 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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