Curators' Tour of the Exhibition "Lubki" with Liza Tsikarishvili and Roman Kruglov

January 31 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Join us for a tour led by two curators, Liza Tsikarishvili and Roman Kruglov, through the exhibition "Lubki," which will reveal the multifaceted universe of the artist MARSHAK. You will immerse yourself in his unique method, where painting becomes text and the canvas transforms into a complex literary statement. We will trace how black humor, the grotesque, and the subconscious of culture collide in his works, giving rise to puzzles for the initiated. Liza Tsikarishvili and Roman Kruglov will show how, through personal symbolism — rope, soap, bread, an angel — the artist speaks of the eternal and the ephemeral. We will examine how the new "Lubki" series explores the absurdity of the rupture between word and image. The tour will reveal the stark language of MARSHAK's works, where official colors and stenciled fonts become artistic gestures. We will discuss how the artist dissects language — both painterly and bureaucratic — exposing its tyranny. Join us to read together this endless blank verse, mixed with snow, vodka, and onion tears.

Tour guides:
Liza Tsikarishvili, curator of the exhibition and founder of Sobo Gallery, artist
Roman Kruglov, artist, curator, founder of the self-organized space Salon Krasoty (Beauty Salon)

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Choral exercise for four actresses "Hamletmachine: Assembly Instructions"

Four actresses interact as parts of a single mechanism, exploring the fragmentary nature of Heiner Müller's text. The text becomes an "instruction" that first unites, then destroys their interaction. The exercise focuses on voice, movement, and collective plasticity, revealing the conflict between personal identity and collective machine dynamics. Heiner Müller's play Hamletmachine fits perfectly into the context of an exhibition analyzing the decomposition of language, identity, and time. The works of Edward Kienholz, which inspired the exhibition, reflect fragmentation and dehumanization, where the body becomes an object of violence and social critique. Just as Kienholz used found objects to create artistic commentary, Müller's text becomes a "found instruction" for the deconstruction of a classical narrative.

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7:00 PM

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