Arte believe. creative breakthrough
On 16 May 2018, the exhibition “Arte Povera. A Creative Revolution” opened in the State hermitage. It presents over 50 works by Italian artists of the second half of the 20th century from the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli (Rivoli-Turin, Italy), GAM - the Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Turin, Italy) and private Italian collections.
The exhibition is organized by Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea (Rivoli-Torino) and The State Hermitage Museum with the participation of GAM Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Turin).
“We have something Italian going on all the time,” Mikhail Piotrovsky, General Director of the State Hermitage, said at the opening ceremony. “Yesterday we signed an agreement with the Italian comune Reggio Emilia, and today we are opening the latest exhibition of Italian art, the latest exhibition of contemporary art and the latest exhibition organized under our agreement with Turin. We are presenting a superb display devoted to Arte Povera, one of the most famous trends in 20th-century art. It arose as a protest against Futurism that glorified the modern world, machinery and the future. As a protest, artists began to turn to simple things, creating the Arte Povera movement. We are exhibiting the Arte Povera in the halls of the top floor, from where the classical art was moved quite some time ago now, but the top floor of the Hermitage is a symbol that has educated more than one generation. We were very keen to present this exhibition and it has been several years in the making. This exhibition has not been easy at all. It identified one more problem: it is hard to display contemporary art in palaces – you need to have an electricity supply. New art needs considerably more attention than the classical sort.”
At the opening ceremony Mikhail Piotrovsky greeted Antonella Parigi, Counsellor for Culture of the Piedmont region; Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Director of the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli and curator of the exhibition; Marcella Beccaria, Chief Curator of the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli; and Leonardo Bencini, Consul General of Italy in Saint Petersburg. The Hermitage Director also thanked Maurizio Cecconi, CEO of Villagio Globale International, and the Lavazza company for supporting the exhibition.
Arte Povera is still relevant “since it is synonymous with artistic freedom and profound ecological thinking, something to look to when trying to formulate a resistance to the hyper-technological society of consumption in our artificial globalized world,” states Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. “For these artists,” she continues, “nature and culture are mutually defined and related, since nature is a cultural notion, whereas culture is not absent in nature but is subject to its rules. This attitude is particularly important today, at a time when the boundaries between the natural and the artificial grow feeble. Arte Povera artists joined an appreciation for everyday life with the respect and interest for art tradition through the centuries by creating a body of original, non-conventional, and non-dogmatic works. Mistrustful of any artistic manifestation that is too intellectual or virtuous, they were convinced that seeming incoherence could become a positive and creative value if interpreted with respect for the complexity of life. They expanded the fields of painting, sculpture, drawing, performance, and photography, often shifting from one medium and one technique to another without worrying about finding a unique and shared style.”
“Arte Povera” is the third exhibition to be part of the project of collaboration with the Lavazza company. “For Lavazza it is a great honor to be presenting the exhibition “Arte Povera. A Creative Revolution” at the State Hermitage in St Petersburg, on the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the movement that transformed contemporary art,” Francesca Lavazza, a member of the Luigi Lavazza S.p.A. board of directors, said. “With this retrospective the company is continuing its long-standing collaboration with the famous museum and taking one more step in the development of unique projects in the realm of art and culture worldwide.”
Arte Povera – “poor or impoverished art” – is a tendency that appeared in Italy around the turn of the 1970s. The distinctive feature of the movement became its members’ striving to move away from all-consuming technical progress towards artisanal creativity. Rejecting industrial and hi-tech materials in favor of “poor” and unaesthetic ones such as rags, newspapers or tree branches, the exponents of Arte Povera were intent on liberating art from the fetters of traditionalism. Unwavering attention to the materials and processes of creative production has become a common feature for artists who have established a new aesthetic in European art. The term Arte Povera was first used in 1967 by the Italian critic and curator Germano Celant.
The display is housed in the legendary halls on the top floor of the Winter Palace, the decoration of which was also conceived at the turn of the 1970s. Today it seems that these rooms resemble in some elusive way the setting of the Kunsthalle in Berne – the venue with which international recognition of Arte Povera began. The exhibition includes works by Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini and Gilberto Zorio.
The exhibition “Arte Povera. A Creative Revolution” is being held as part of the Hermitage 20/21 project that aims to collect, exhibit and study art of the 20th and 21st centuries. The exhibition has been co-curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Director of Castello di Rivoli Museo d "Arte Contemporanea and Dimitri Ozerkov, Head of the State Hermitage's Department of Contemporary Art, with the assistance of Anastasiya Chaladze, a member of the department staff .
An illustrated brochure has been prepared for the exhibition (State Hermitage Publishing House, 2018).
The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive educational program including a series of lectures, a gallery talk at the exhibition, a festival of installations and performances, and an intellectual marathon.
The exhibition is taking place as part of the Hermitage–Italy Foundation’s projects through the agency of Villaggio Globale International.
The exhibition is organized with the support of Lavazza, Italy.
What color is the letter O how to depict emptiness or unravel the language of insect communication - in Russian schools and schools in neighboring countries continue to be surprised by the questions Olympiad "Breakthrough" and the responses of its members.
The uniqueness of the Olympiad is that it is heuristic, that is, it contains many search tasks. We do not set ourselves the goal of simply testing the child. Our Olympiad allows you to "push" the ability to analyze, generalize and synthesize information, and therefore comprehensively promotes the development of a young artist.
About the Olympiad
Autonomous non-profit organization of additional professional education "Interregional Center for Innovative Technologies in Education"
February 27 - March 2, 2019 holds X II
International Metasubject Olympiad of Scientific Creativity "Breakthrough".
All interested students of 7-11 grades of educational institutions of the Russian Federation and CIS countries can take part in the Olympiad.
- 1 09.10.2018 Acceptance of applications
- 2 27.02.2019 First stage
- 3 15.04.2019 Results of the first stage
- 4 22.04.2019 Final stage
- 5 20.05.2019 Announcement of winners
First (qualifying) stage olympiads:
Traditionally, all interested students pass this stage of the Olympiad in his educational institution . In 2019 it will take place 27, 28 February and 1, 2 March. The specific time of the event is chosen educational institution. Students will be offered 6 tasks of a creative nature, the implementation of which allows you to apply standard knowledge in a non-standard situation; when performing such tasks, the student can show the ability to classify, generalize and draw analogies, predict the result, using intuition, imagination and fantasy.
To participate in the first stage, you must October 9, 2018 to February 4, 2019 submit an application and pay the registration fee in one of the provided ways in the amount of 100 rubles for each participant (for orphanages, boarding schools - 50 rubles for each participant).
All participants of the first stage receive certificates. When applying from three participants, printed certificates and original souvenirs are provided.
Second (final) stageolympiads - remote:
In 2019, the second stage will take place from 22 to 28 April remotely. All participants who have passed the second stage will receive access at a predetermined time to complete the tasks of the Olympiad online on the website www.site. The winners of the first stage take part in the second stage (the results are summed up by parallels).Participation in the second stage is free. All participants of the second stage receive diplomas and memorable prizes, the winners - unique medals.
Participation in the Olympiad gives high school students the opportunity expand your portfolio, get extra points when submitting documents and increase your chances of getting into college.
The Olympiad is held in accordance with Part 2 of Art. 77 of the Federal Law of the Russian Federation "On Education in the Russian Federation" No. 273-FZ of December 29, 2012
The main differences of this Olympiad from others are as follows:
- assessment of the quality of education through the assessment of meta-subject results of mastering programs by students general education ;
- participation and victory do not require special and deep knowledge in any field of knowledge, moreover, children with low academic performance can show high results: it is precisely such children that “hidden” giftedness is inherent in;
- identification and educational and methodological support of gifted children;
- tasks of the Olympiad are practice-oriented, problematic, research tasks; the approach to solving them can be varied: from life observations to the application of extra-curricular knowledge and scientific apparatus;
- promotion of scientific knowledge.
Task examples:
Situation 1. Amazing mirrors. If you take two mirrors, connect them at an angle of 90 ° to each other and put a person between them, you get three reflections: one in front and two on the right and left - a total of 4 people along with the original. If we draw a half ball in front of the mirrors, as is done in the figure on the right, then we will see two whole balls. Draw how to arrange objects in the corner mirror so that it turns out: 4 people and one ball; 6 people; 5 balls. Suggest your options.
Situation 2. Wait, locomotive, don't knock, wheels... The sound of the wheels is formed due to the joints of the rails. If you make the joints smaller, then the knock will be quieter. But according to the rules, the joints must be of a certain size. What is it connected with? Give examples where else in life a similar effect is used.
Situation 3. "Repeats". In the phrase “The barbarian cook, the barbarian stole,” the word “var” occurs as many as 6 times, and in the phrase “Mumu’s mind is full of thoughts” 4 times you can see the word “mind”. Come up with such meaningful "repetitions" too.
Situation 4. Almost brothers. Pay attention to the words "signature" and "painting". They are very close in sound, but not the same in meaning. Or a couple of words "dress" and "put on". Such pairs are called paronyms (gr. para - near and onima - name). Explain the difference in the following pairs of phrases: "annual vacation" and "annual vacation"; "neighbor house" and "neighbor house". Give 3-4 of your paronyms and give them an explanation.
Situation 5. Relentless cat. Often in the store you can meet a stray cat; sometimes she even climbs into the window and sleeps there. Imagine that such a cat cannot be driven out of the store in any way, she constantly returns and sleeps in the window. Suggest a way to turn harm into good.
Situation 6. Caring ants. Not only do we care about the conservation of nature, in particular trees: on the American continent, “caring” ants live in the cavity of trees. Those trees that they like, they cultivate and accompany their growth so that populations can live. Explain how ants manage to "grow" trees: unlike people, they cannot plant in an organized manner.
Situation 7. Unfamiliar Internet. Imagine that you had to explain to the natives who never knew civilization what the Internet is. They don't understand your language. Draw those images that would help them understand what the Internet is, as accurately as possible.
Situation 8. Inconsistent nature. In philosophy, as you probably know, the law of unity and struggle of opposites is formulated. According to him, through the struggle of opposing forces, sides, properties, all objects of the world develop, including social systems, man and his spirituality. Depict with the help of various objects your understanding of this philosophical law.
We liked the clear sea, the warm air, and the starry sky. The idea to gather disciples in this reserved place arose on New Year's Eve. After all, such events must be planned in advance. Then the realization came to us that it was time to conduct traveling seminars.
I sat down at my favorite kitchen table, immersed myself in meditation and on a piece of paper wrote the titles of the seminars: “Meditation and Health” and “ Critical points Fate." In mid-February, we began to invite students to the Crimea for summer education. Someone made a decision instantly and immediately bought plane tickets. Someone plunged into long reflections and made a final decision at the end of July.
In February we planned creative breakthrough into the future. We knew that we needed new forms of seminars that would open the way to new knowledge and new technologies. We believed that we would succeed. Pupils from different cities accepted our offer to go to Crimea to study with enthusiasm. They viewed the houses on the site eco-resort Morskoe, were interested in the type of food and the state of the beach, chose the best route and made timely reservations. Together with us they planned their summer future.
Adaptation to the territory
The path for many students was not close. They flew on airplanes, traveled in buses and cars. They had a dream - to work creatively together with us on seminars in Crimea. They arrived tired. A day passed and the students were already swimming in the friendly dark sea, getting to know each other and sharing their experience.
We helped the students to disconnect from the bustle of the city. They felt calm returning to them, quiet joy returning to them. They, like us, Alexander and Irina Yuranov (Essan and Solya), tuned in to active learning. We prepared plans, they prepared themselves. Twenty-five unique personalities were preparing to renew themselves, their lives, and their future.
Brain and Mind were freed from information garbage. The students set themselves up for the perception of new information. Many of them took ours with them on the trip. The students wanted to make a leap in their personal development and they managed to do it.
Meditation and health
Someone was at our seminars for the first time. Some have already been studying for twenty years. We did not distinguish between "newbies" and "oldies". We wanted a group in this unique space eco-resort Morskoe was united in her desire to restore health and regain peace of mind.
All students diligently wrote down the information and actively performed simple and complex exercises throughout the lesson. They learned to practice based on new positive information. We and heaven gave the disciples the necessary clues. They asked interesting questions and received answers to these questions. We saw how the audience was filled with light from lesson to lesson.
Friends, don't let the word scare you. Meditation is a certain technology of working within yourself, when you consciously restore your health and your purity, when you are freed from fears and negative programs, when you get practical skills to manage your internal states.
In this unique place, the sky was open to communication. The currents flowed calmly and powerfully. We explained to the students how to behave during rest and during work. They absorbed new information more actively than ever and did their homework with inspiration and passion.
“Practice, practice and more practice. Little to know. You have to be able to work and get a stable result.” Alexander and Irina Yuranov
Critical points of Destiny
This is the name of the second seminar. We knew that many listeners who have been learning for many years modern system knowledge about the World and man, they do not know how to independently conduct a situational analysis. Many went to the Crimea in order to study our unique technologies for working with a problematic past.
We have done our best to properly structure and systematically present the theory and practice of situational analysis. The listeners received an answer to the question of why critical points of Destiny appear and how to make them stop destroying the present and past of the individual. The time has come to actively correct the mistakes made in the distant past, in past lives and incarnations.
The problematic past changes the behavior of the individual in the present. The person begins to behave aggressively and inadequately, not understanding what is happening. As a result, life becomes more complicated, because new karmic knots are tied, which by the end of life can turn into a new critical point.
We explained to the students that their group was also formed according to karmic signs. What does this mean? The disciples have already met each other in the past. Some of you have been in this area in past lives. Listeners peered into familiar faces and began to practice situational analysis, infuriating the critical points of Destiny. They diligently transferred their past from an active state to a passive one. They were preparing themselves for a breakthrough into the future.
In a previous blog article, I already wrote that each seminar participant received an individual copy of the heavenly book of Joy. And now each student has a unique opportunity to move to the Sea of Joy and dive into it, observing certain rules.
“Joy opens the way to creative creativity. There are new ideas that will be embodied in the material environment. Through ideas, personality, together with heaven, creates a new future. Alexander and Irina Yuranov
Today it became clear that the inhabitants of the Earth have lost the keys to their personal future. Therefore, they often trample before behind closed doors. For this reason, they get upset, mourn and weep. They do not understand themselves and their lives. They have forgotten their past and are afraid of death. After all, they do not believe that they were as individuals before their day of birth and will exist as individuals after their death.
Come study with us. We will help you understand and accept your life and your future. We will tell you where the keys to your future are. Moreover, we will teach you how to use these keys.
We decided on the basis of the seminars held to write new book which you, our readers and friends, are looking forward to. The book does not yet have a title. But the book already has content. We are planning to release it in 2016. This book will help those who missed the opportunity to create in a place with us. new reality in eco-resort Morskoe.
Answer to the question
We are asked a question by students and managers of the Morskoye eco-resort: will we come next year to this unique place in Crimea? Our answer is simple: if heaven brings us here, we will be here again in order to make a new creative leap into the future. We hope that you will do this creative breakthrough into the future together with us.
In the meantime, sign up for the "Keys to the Future" webinar.
Our previous articles about recreation and education in the Crimea
(Technique of meditation in colored seas from a seminar in Crimea, 2016)
(How we tuned in for seminars in Crimea after Milan, 2016)
(How we planned to organize our work in Crimea, 2016)
(Schedule of seminars in Crimea, 2016)
(Report on our first creative vacation and creative meetings in Crimea, 2015)
In the halls of the Winter Palace until August 16, 2018, Italian "poor art" is being shown. The movement that emerged at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s succeeded in radically updating the aesthetic ideas and artistic practice of that time. Pavel Gerasimenko tells how, in 50 years, Arte Povera has become one of the brands of Italy of the 20th century and has been able to become on a par with the jewels of the Hermitage.
Lucho Fontana. Spatial concept: expectation. 1964. Canvas, water-based paint. Gallery of Contemporary Art GAM, Turin. Courtesy Fondazione Torino Musei. Photo: © Studio fotografico Gonella
The exhibition entitled “Arte Povera. Creative breakthrough”, marks the anniversary of the art movement that emerged at the turn of 1967 and 1968. For the first time, the Hermitage is showing the “poor art”, which in 50 years has become one of the artistic brands of Italy in the 20th century. Most of the exhibits come from the rich collection of Arte Povera in the Rivoli Castle near Turin. They occupied the halls on the third floor of the Winter Palace - both suites, the outhouse, formerly given over to German painting of the 19th century, and the front room, where not so long ago the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists were housed. Only a few years have passed since the Hermitage part of the Shchukin and Morozov collections moved to the General Staff Building, but not everyone remembers where specific works were hung. The curators of the exhibition - Dmitry Ozerkov and Anastasia Chaladze from the Hermitage and the famous Caroline Christov-Bakardzhiev, curator of the Castello di Rivoli collection - of course, did not have in mind the correspondence between the former and the current filling of the halls. But still, the memory of the place is bizarrely preserved in the museum: by historical standards, quite recently, viewers of Picasso's cubist works were outraged "Is this art?" - now the same thing will happen in front of the objects of Yannis Kounellis or Mario Merz. An article in the catalog by Dmitry Ozerkov noted the similarity of the space in the Hermitage with the Bernese Kunsthalle, where arte povera was recognized worldwide at Harald Szeemann's exhibition When Relations Become Form in 1969. Perhaps, in the 70s of the last century, not only the exposition architecture of the classical museum located in the palace remained, but also domestic concepts of the history of art. Meanwhile, in the twentieth century, Italian and Russian life had much in common: only in a poor and predominantly agrarian country are they able to poetize the machine and technology to such an extent, as did the Italian and Russian futurists. In the art of povera, as in Russian futurism, the soil principle is clearly distinguishable. Its powerful influence on the world art of the last 50 years continues to grow - for example, according to the Italian example, "Russian Poor" was also successfully conceptualized, which is confirmed by the auction prices for artists of "poor art".
Fragment of the exhibition “Arte Povera. Creative breakthrough" with the work of Mario Merz "Igloo with a tree" (1968-1969). Photo: Pavel Gerasimenko
Arte Povera became known thanks to critic and curator Germano Celant. At the end of 1967, a group exhibition was held at the Genoese gallery La Bertesca, which marked the beginning of a new art movement. The art of arte povera originated in the north of the country - the rough and poor, "non-artistic" materials that the artists used were directly related to the local history and landscape and corresponded to the peasant severity of the way of these places. The new art was a reaction to the fashionable ideology and artistic practice of pop art. Celant was able to give it an international meaning in the article "Arte Povera: Notes on the Guerrilla War" published in the same year.
Only 16 artists are represented in more than twenty halls of the Hermitage. The exhibition, in addition to the monographic division of the authors into the halls, does not have a clear structure, so it is worth dwelling on both the most spectacular works and their opposites - fundamentally unspectacular works. However, both of them will confuse the domestic audience. The curators relied on the minimalism of the exposition: no more than three or four things are shown in each room, and thanks to the distance between them, small rooms with low ceilings become visually more spacious.
The exhibition opens with “Hatred” by Gilberto Zorio, which looks like a metal bar suspended about a meter from the floor on ropes. In 1969, the artist hammered a rope into a piece of lead with a hammer, forming the word “odio”, that is, hatred, from its bends. The material weight and rudeness of this object immediately declares the main images of the entire exhibition.
Gilberto Zorio. Hatred. 1969. Lead, rope.
Private collection, Turin. Photo: Antonio Maniscalco
Arte Povera's predecessors, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri and Piero Manzoni, are shown in the first rooms. If the works of Burri and Fontana ended the exhibition of Italian art “Futurism. Novecento. Abstraction "in the Hermitage in 2005, then Manzoni is presented in the museum for the first time, and not by the famous Merda d" Artista, but by one of the "Achromes" - canvases with a surface soaked in white clay. Both Fontana and Manzoni were sculptors by education, so the introductory part sets another of the conceptual components of the entire exhibition - sculpture as an important quality of arte povera. Another important property - the processual nature of this art - shows "Untitled (homage to Fontane)" by Pier Paolo Calzolari. In this work of 1989, as in other things Calzolari , means of expression becomes the frost produced on the surface of the lead by the cooling elements, so this product changes all the time.
For the next concept - the unrealizability, which Germano Celant called one of the features of the new movement - is the responsibility of the "International" in the work of Gilberto Zorio. The melody of the proletarian anthem, played by the artist on the carillon in 1975 as part of a performance and repeated for recording in 2015, sounds in the passage under the arches of the Alexander Hall of the Winter Palace. This audio installation combines the ephemeral nature of sound with revolutionary utopia. The adjoining room displays four of Zorio's works, including the 1967 installation Pink-Blue-Pink, which now looks like a harbinger of science art. In it, cobalt chloride, depending on the humidity of the air, changes color from pink to blue. Comparing Zorio with a modern alchemist, Khristov-Bakardzhiev writes: “ chemical reactions in materials are analogous to the chemical and energetic processes in the brain, and therefore the results mental work generally".
Fragment of the exhibition “Arte Povera. Creative Breakthrough" with works by Gilberto Zorio. Photo: State Hermitage Museum
The Italian curator dedicated the entire exhibition to the memory of Yannis Kounellis. The two halls devoted to the works of the artist, who died in 2017, of course, cannot be compared in scale with the installations made by the classic Arte Povera in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, or with the opera productions shown in Perm with his scenography, but still give an idea of the methods of work . The exhibition also includes early paintings - "Z-3" of 1961, and objects that demonstrate the beauty and properties of materials in their original materiality - these are two works of the late 1960s "Untitled", one with coal, the other with wool. A separate hall is occupied by a 1997 installation of black coats suspended in a row from a rusty rail - its emotional effect also arises from the contact of textures and the difference in materials.
Giuseppe Penone occupies a hall with his works, from whose windows one can see his sculpture from the large cycle “Ideas from Stone” called “1372 kg of Light”, installed in the large courtyard of the Hermitage a month before the exhibition. Penone's works now function perfectly as public art or in the interior, as evidenced by the installation "Casket", completed in 2007. The tree bark is covered with leather, and the bronze casting of the trunk is gilded on the inside. The things of Alighiero Boetti have the same decorative effect. Over the years, the art of arte povera has evolved into a set of formal techniques. Many artists both replicated their plastic finds in separate works and repeated works in several copies, although the collection of Castello di Rivoli contains the primary or most significant versions.
Giuseppe Penone. Ideas from stone - 1372 kg of light. 2018.
Photo: State Hermitage Museum
Some works were created by artists as fundamentally finite - such, for example, "Neon in cement" by Giovanni Anselmo, in which the neon tube must be replaced with a new one when it ceases to emit light. "Gender (Tautology)" by Luciano Fabro is a floor square covered with newspapers. Traditionally, this was done in Italy with a freshly washed floor, but the domestic viewer will first of all notice the fresh Russian press on the parquet. His “Laundry Hangers (From Naples)” of 1976-1977 throws a bridge from arte povera to another post-minimalist direction - op art. Five bright objects combine ephemeral and durable, light and heavy materials - bronze castings are covered with fabric and painted with acrylic paints.
“Ragged Venus” by Michelangelo Pistoletto, which, along with three of his other works, occupies the hall where the famous panels of Matisse used to hang, is perhaps the most famous thing of the artist. It exists in several different versions, among which there is even a performative one - in 1980 in San Francisco, a living model took the place of sculpture. The Hermitage presents one of the three works, made among the first in 1967. All "Venuses" are somewhat different in size, so it's interesting to think about what would happen if a pile of clothes became a different shade or grew in size in the same way as the production of things increased over the years? Criticism of the consumer society, which eventually came to the fore in this work, was not the main idea of the artist. Like other masters of arte povera, Pistoletto was more interested in the plastic and semantic contrast of comparing a stone statue with a heap of fabrics. Similar plastic possibilities of mountains of colorful clothes were then used by Christian Boltanski in his 2010 installation Personnes at the Grand Palais.
Fragment of the exhibition “Arte Povera. Creative breakthrough" with the works of Michelangelo Pistoletto. Photo: State Hermitage Museum
Just like "Rag Venus", Mario Merz's "Igloo with a Tree" is famous. This work (which also exists in several author’s copies) is capable of changing any space in which it is exhibited, and the Hermitage hall with windows on Palace Square was no exception. Externally, the fragile glass construction has both visual lightness and certainty. Its inconclusiveness over the years turns into a monumentality of a special kind, capable of withstanding the changing time in the same way that real Eskimo dwellings resist nature.
Marisa Merz's 1997 work "Untitled" becomes the code for the entire exhibition - a small fountain above a paraffin violin in a lead bath, unexpectedly standing in line with the palace fountains. The water that quietly pours from the center of the wax violin expresses that constancy of weak power that helped Arte Povera win in the historical perspective, becoming on a par with the jewels of the Hermitage.
Most adults live a significant part of their lives on the "machine", doing the usual things according to the algorithms and patterns laid down once...
Most of the time, our thoughts move in the same direction. And although this state of affairs is familiar to us, it deserves criticism - we must understand how much we limit ourselves by thinking in the usual way. There are so many other ways of thinking and expressing our thoughts and feelings.
In the hustle and bustle of everyday worries, there is no time at all to stop and
- Embrace the Here and Now
- Suddenly turn the usual actions in a different direction or look at the situation from an unusual angle ...
- Feel inner freedom and allow yourself to do what you want
- Think and do something like that! And here's something else :)
- Expand the scope and open to the creative flow...
In SCHOOL we were taught to act according to the model. Most of the grades that make up school success are given for solving tasks with a known correct answer in advance.
At the UNIVERSITY we are taught to follow the example. Many sciences are several hundred years old, so it takes years for us to study everything that is already known and get on track. Certainly there is research activities and it's good if she takes a leading role. But most often a diploma of higher education not associated with the ability to find something new.
IN POSITIONS IN CORPORATIONS, we are taught to act according to the model. Most employees are forced to fit into existing rules and policies.
Therefore, when we come to the need to “offer a fresh look”, “invent something new and original”, for example, to make a toy for a child “out of nothing”, we habitually begin to look for analogues, select turnkey solutions, we strive to find a pattern, we hope to get a template that would guarantee our success.
What if we try differently?
Take responsibility for your "Creative Self".
Believe that you can look for and find new interesting ideas and bring them to life! And even if you don’t embody, then just get joy from insights ...
- Creativity is the inner freedom that forms the basis of personality. Without this freedom it is impossible consciously move through life.
- Creativity gives freedom not only to thoughts, but also to actions.
- Creativity provides opportunities for self-expression.
- Plunging into creativity, we push away our “inner critic”, which sometimes makes it very difficult to just live and enjoy life.
- Creativity is the main thing that raises any routine activity to the heights of art.
- Creativity gives joy from the realization of your own ideas.
- Creativity gives relief from stiffness and uncertainty.
- Creativity provides a competitive advantage in so many professions.
- Creativity erases borders - both between states and between people.
Ready to make creativity a part of your life?
We invite you to the online marathon
- find creativity in yourself, which is still sleeping somewhere or appears infrequently;
- develop new Creative skills and learn to use old ones in new ways;
- discover in yourself the opportunity to look at old things in a new way;
- remember yourself free, add color to life, rise above the routine;
- spend 4 weeks in the company of like-minded people, recharge with inspiration;
- create without long searches and torments;
- fill your life with creativity!
In addition to these blocks, each of the participants will take 1-2 creative habits for 28 days of the marathon, and do something every day that will help form these habits and make them part of everyday life.
Olya Brusyanina Educational psychologist; Enthusiastic mother of almost 4-year-old son; He cannot imagine his life without new ideas and their implementation, he constantly develops his creative thinking in all its manifestations. |
Natalya Burakova Teacher-psychologist of the highest category, winner of the regional competition "Educator of the Year - 2014"; More than 15 years of experience in advising children and adults; Creative mother of three. |
- The marathon will be run in a closed VKontakte group.
- An open webinar of the marathon will take place on November 24 "Creative breakthrough", where we will talk about all organizational issues, and also begin to perform exercises.
- On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, new materials and tasks will be posted, you will go through them and report back to the group.
- You will need about 30 minutes per day to complete each task.
- On Sundays, among all those who reported on all tasks, we will draw gifts :)
- Attention! Those who do not write a single report within a week will be excluded from the group. You will receive marathon materials by mail, but will you really need them?
Svetlana Matveeva, Voronezh
In 28 days, we were able to sort out the rubble, sneak through the piles of years to our true - Creative Self.
For the entire time of the marathon, I really felt how the energy around me thickened, thickened and at the same time became softer, lighter, softer. There was an opportunity to see the world from a new perspective. The side that was available to us in the azure edge of childhood. In 28 days, we were able to sort out the rubble, sneak over stacks of years to our true - Creative Self. Now this Self confidently looks at the world, drawing, coloring, composing it in our own way, knowing that the result is only a mythical illusion, the main thing is to be here and now, to create and be the Creator. And the worlds... The worlds are already being created, and we, revealed here, are simply their Creators. Something will be, something will be!
Anna Usova, Vologda
All this month, Olga and Natalia did not let us get bored, and even reveal their talents! This month I have learned great amount information that, due to blocks and complexes, most likely would never have known. To say that I'm happy about it is an understatement. I'm happy! Even my husband, a critic of all my undertakings, has already lagged behind and only watched quietly on the sidelines) And sometimes he even admired what I did. I definitely didn’t expect this from him))) I finally defeated my postpartum persistent depression !!! Of course, I did not expect anything like this at the beginning of the marathon. The habit of seeing the unusual in ordinary things developed itself without much effort, I'm working on the rest.
Marina Balina, Moscow
I was looking for and knew that such a creative click inside should happen and I am very glad that, here, the start has been made.
Olga and Natalia, thank you for this project. For me, the results were unexpected. First, I did something that I did not expect from myself. Secondly, I really had a "creative breakthrough" - some kind of invisible leap in my view of ordinary objects. Somehow, in a simple way, everything began to be invented, especially in games and creative activities with a child. It is necessary to develop this creative principle in oneself further, perhaps it will be able to manifest itself in other types of activity. I was looking for and knew that such a creative click inside should happen and I am very glad that, here, the start has been made. Thank you for the ideas, for the new directions that have yet to be mastered. I mean also acquaintance with new techniques and authors of ideas and directions. I will be glad to continue to develop them further along with everyone. Thanks to everyone for such a lively participation in the project, it was very cool!
Yulia Logvinenko, St. Petersburg
I made sure that problems are solved only at another level. Thank you very much! I made sure that problems are solved only at another level. Everyday problems were resolved on the spiritual. The inner child helped me a lot to deal with hidden needs. And all the drawing processes just turned off the brain and gave a breath of air. I felt freedom. Reflections on creativity have become more philosophical, with a drop of magic, I want to write about it, I started a notebook. I felt a state of balance and now I return myself there all the time. I am fond of Vedic psychology and the topic of a creative breakthrough fits very well there. Often the main reason for my negative feelings was precisely creative insufficiency, the limitations that I set for myself. Now I am learning to go beyond the "framework", I am changing and the world is changing too. I thank everyone who walked alongside and, of course, those who led forward! THANKS!!!
Irina Kubantseva, Chelyabinsk
The training was aimed at developing creativity. I went because the topic is interesting to me. And dug so deep that I could not even imagine.
The training was wow! For me! Very tense. I would even say heavy. And this is good. I have not yet re-educated, so if it is possible to postpone some task, for the sake of other things that are not so pleasant for me, but necessary for someone, then I will postpone ... Therefore, tight deadlines, reports are super!
And to read the reports of other participants is something. In general, the first time I started having complexes - "Ah-ah-ah ... Everyone is doing great! And as always, I have nonsense!". But then, she calmed down. It's not nonsense for me. But just in your own way. If all writers wrote similarly, artists painted similarly, and composers wrote similar music, then life would still seem monotonous, devoid of something. Since creativity should be different. I did not pull the habits I had taken. But I remembered the old ones - before, nothing at all could hide from me, I noticed everything. And not only in childhood. And about before the birth of the youngest. Now I'm running somewhere, immersed in thoughts of nothing. And suddenly the daughter notices something. I grab it and run on. She again. And me again. She roar. And me like a butt on the head. Where am I running. What for. And we start walking slowly. Look at everything. Remembering what has changed (it’s more difficult for me, but my daughter remembers). Let's take something to check the next day. We check.
I also noticed that the once active left hand became passive. Now I'm trying to develop it.
In general, everything turned out to be much more difficult than I expected, and I "soured". You reminded me that many of the truths that I was taught, according to which I live, which I teach my children - in principle, work against me (I understood this before, but how can you argue against ... but it turns out, you can do it differently ). I didn't get the problem solved at all. Here is where I have a global problem!!! I do not understand anything. A little later I will study all the materials again. I will work it out again. I didn't draw up the fairy tales and didn't post them, but, most importantly, I got a "kick" and began to compose simple, but fairy tales. My daughter asked so much... Now she composes too! Hooray! And thank you very much.
Surprisingly, the training was aimed at developing creativity. I went because the topic is interesting to me. And dug so deep that I could not even imagine. And it’s good that I couldn’t - I would be afraid. And then it came face to face...
Girls! I don't want to leave! I want to go to the club!!!
4 weeks of immersion in creativity, mastering habits and skills creative person with the support of two educational psychologists and Internet trainers, they will cost the price of one hour of psychological counseling. Okay, one and a half consultations :)
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