Vyksa Artist-in-Residency

The residence of Kati-Anna Taguti ended with the opening of the “Signals” exhibition in the gallery of the western wing of the Vyksa Museum of History.

The exhibition features canvases created in Vyksa, drawings, fragments of “meteorites” (slag), as well as objects from the archaeological collection of the museum, selected by the artist, they awaken the imagination and create new connections with today. The Signals project is an echo of the past, nostalgic and disturbing, as if the past, but hanging over the present and the future.

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Ildar Galeev. Taguti’s “Large Portrait”: the Archaeology of Memory

As the human race inevitably seeks to reach its fall (and it appears to me it will manage sometime), imaging the most important component of the universe, the human itself, turns out to be increasingly dramatic. Formal variability of such representation is infinite, and it sounds oddly for the finite universe. But the art of imaging elaborately is the most everlasting of all (as the ancient Greeks knew – ars longa, vita brevis est). the metaphysics of such a definition will be necessary opposing to material essence of the nature, its forms and manifestations.

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