Ostretsov Georgy

1984 graduated from the Theater and Art School at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. 1988-1998 lived and worked in Paris. Currently lives and works in Moscow. PREPOSITIONAL CASE Experience in international art and fashion projects prompted Georgy Ostretsov, after his return from Paris, to create the artistic and political science project “New Government” - a utopia of art as an active, although not always utopian unambiguous political force. Various political, social and aesthetic phenomena are thematized by Ostretsov in bright, easy-to-read images of NP. Hidden behind masks, NP agents are efficient and devoid of understandable human desires; they embody the mechanism of power. The artist manages to maintain the provocative ambiguity of his total project and remain in an invulnerable position of unbiased social criticism, invariably witty and accurate. Large canvases and installations are made in the aesthetics of a comic book, mixed with a seemingly random invasion of the street, which spoils the totalitarian message with colored blots and dirt. The phantom world of Georgy Ostretsov reveals simple mechanisms of power, levers of manipulation of mass consciousness. Alexander GOSPEL SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES 2007 "Repair". Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow. 2006 “Physicists and Lyricists, or Sex in the City” (together with Georgy Litichevsky), Gelman Gallery, Moscow IV Ceremony of awarding the Order of the New Government, Praktika Gallery, Moscow “Execution of the vices of functionaries by members of the New Government”, performance, Moscow “Revenge Match”. Suzy Wong Bar. Moscow. "The Homeless Show" Maxim Boxer Theater. Moscow region 2005 Lawlessness. M. Gelman Gallery, Moscow III Ceremony of awarding the Order of the New Government, Central House of Artists, Moscow 2004 Performance September 1, 2004, 15:30 – 16:30, London. Procession from the building of the English Parliament to the White Space Gallery "War", M. Gelman Gallery, Moscow II Ceremony of awarding the Order of the New Government, M. Gelman Gallery, Moscow 2003 "New Government". Gelman Gallery in Kyiv, Ukraine I Ceremony of awarding the Order of the New Government, S'ART Gallery, Moscow 2002 "Vandals and generals of the New Government". Gelman Gallery, Moscow. 2000 "Visitor". State Russian Museum, Marble Palace. Saint Petersburg. "Diventa la Vittima", Nadia Baldeschi Arte Contemporanea. Venice. Italy. 1998 "Father", performance, Moscow. 1996 Collection of latex suits and masks. Presentation in galleries of the 13th quarter (Jenifer Flay Gallery, Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery, Gallery Praz – Delavallade e.t.c.). Personal exhibition with performance "Correction". Gallery e.O.f. Paris. 1987 Exhibition and performance in the "House of Medicine". Moscow SOME GROUP PROJECTS 2007 "Amateurs". Marres Center for Contemporary Art. Maastricht, Holland "Diary of an Artist". A special project of the M. Gelman Foundation within the framework of the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Central House of Artists, Moscow "Thaw". 15 years of M. Gelman Gallery. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg 2006 Fair "Design and Advertising", Crocus Center, Moscow "GiPrides". Project "Swinging Pictures". Gallery DomArt. Moscow 2005 Russia 2. Bad News from Russia. WHITE BOX, New York Moscow Breakthrough, Bargehouse, London 2004-2005 Russia 2. Special project of the M. Gelman Gallery within the framework of the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art 2002 “Bulimia”. Project within the framework of the Moscow Photobiennale. Photo Center on Gogolevsky Boulevard. Moscow. Forum of Artistic Initiatives. New Manege Projects "Rubber Tower", "Lastomer", "Tiger", "Reconstruction". Cetinje Biennale, Montenegro "Unbearable clothes for every day." International festival of contemporary art in an urban environment A REAL 001. Yekaterinburg. 2001 Video installation "Super Soldier" as part of the general project of group 77 "Art for a while". Graz, Austria. Installation "Smoking Room" as part of the Forum of Art Initiatives. Moscow. "Agitation for art." M. Gelman Gallery. Moscow. 2000 "ARTE". Milan. Italy. Photobiennale "Youth meets the 3rd millennium". Moscow. Month Photos Fotofo. Bratislava. Slovakia. 1999 "The Rape of Europa". "Western Europe after the Berlin Wall." State Russian Museum, Marble Palace, St. Petersburg. 1998 MOTHER. Gallery of Natasha Rukhadze. Moscow. Moscow Fine Art Gallery. Moscow. Comics exhibition Photobiennale "Fashion and style in photography". Moscow. 1993 Biennale of Contemporary Art in Istanbul. Türkiye. 1992 "Manifestation of Illustrators of France". City library. Villeurbanne. France. 1990 Arte Sacra Biennale. Pescara. Italy. 1987 Exhibition of the Hermitage Association of Artists (under the direction of L. Bazhanov). Moscow. "Russian non-conformist art of the 1980s." Group exhibition of the Hermitage Artists Association. Society "CIRC". Amsterdam. 1985-1986 Exhibitions with nonconformist artists of the "Kindergarten" group. Moscow. 1985 Exhibition of the group "George & George" (Georgy Ostretsov and Georgy Litichevsky) "The Cranes Are Flying" as part of the XVII youth exhibition. House of Artists. Moscow. The works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic, St. Petersburg Museum of Dreams. Z. Freud, St. Petersburg In private collections