exhibition
“Vo dudu Enver: strength of materials”
30 May 2014 — 22 June 2014
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"Vo dudu Enver: strength of materials", a solo exhibition by Enver Bajkeev was opened in Erarta Museum on May 30

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For three decades, from the late 1970s until the 2010s, Enver Bajkeev (1958–2011) was one of the brightest figures on St. Petersburg art stage: firstly, as a versatile artist of multiple media, secondly, as a curator of exhibitions, and, in general, as a culture hero and Kulturtrager. In the 90s Bajkeev founded an art-club "Institute of Contemporary Art" at "Brodyachaya Sobaka" art café, and headed a female art group "Jeff Koons Fan Club". His most high-profile project was The First St. Petersburg Biennale of Contemporary Art in 1990, supported by the Soviet Cultural Fund. The Biennale featured 208 artists.

Starting from 2005 Enver worked as a curator and a leading researcher in the new exhibition hall of City Museum of Sculpture. Throughout his life he was gradually transforming from an underground artist into a media person. The process of constant searching was for the artist much more important than just pragmatic exploitation of a once found style. He wrote: "I am not a slave of any style, it's like many different artists live in me (this is my author's concept), and each one articulates his own intentions < ... > A multimedia artist can't exploit only one style, method or technique, he should move from one metapsychological state to another and be present in the state of a constant inner search". Bajkeev perceived himself as an "unnumbered energy-color-musical device named 'Enver the artist'".

Despite the modest format of the exhibition, it will feature such large-scale paintings as "Gigantelya" (from "Giant pieces" series, 2x4 m), "Absinthe, or a Happening in a bistro" and "New-Deco walks on" (from "The Absorbable" series), as well as the art-objects, sculptures, installations and graphic work. This exposition inspired by neodadaist intentions recalls the recently lived, worked and resisted the materials artist.

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