Blue noses group: homevideo
Donnerstag, 09. Dezember 2010 - 19:00 Uhr
Galerie Knoll
Exhibition lasts until 5th February 2011
The moment has finally arrived: the new spectacular project of the russian artist group Blue Noses will be shown on the 9th of December at the Knoll Gallery Vienna. After four years of close collaboration between the Blue Noses, Swarovski and KnollGalleryVienna, four unique architectural objects made of crystal glass with integrated flat screens have been created: The Taj Mahal of Agra, the Empire State Building of New York, the Lenin Mausoleum of Moscow and the Cheops pyramid of Gizeh. The Blue Noses gave these sparkling and culturally charged buildings new inhabitants by means of their well known satirical video works, and these famous inhabitants succumb the same low appetites as everyone.
The russian art historian Andrej Erofeev considered the new project:
"The artist group "Blue Noses" consists of two artists, both coming from Russia's province - Viacheslav Mizin, performer and architect from Novosibirsk and Alexander Shaburov, artist and writer from the Sverdlovsk Region (currently known as Ekaterinburg). They came together for collective creative work at the very end of the Yeltsin era - in 1999.