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Untitled (from the series “bugs”)
Anatoly Osmolovsky
wood and gloss paint
27 × 21 × 15 cm
2004
Acquisition 2005
Inv. No. 0148a
Every work stands in a causally discursive connection to the cultural space in which it is created. One becomes aware of this after having become involved in more detail with a specific artist, and cross connections and references have been revealed. In the case of Russian art, this rapidly leads to stereotypes that often obscure the view of the work. If one refrains from this and takes the work for what it is, what one sees, one is choosing a process that would be unfruitful when applied to many areas of contemporary art. The present work allows this because of its formal strengths and concision. The two sculptures come from a series of very similar works in which slight differences in the surface qualities allow formal structural characteristics to be recognised. Even though only two states are shown, one immediately grasps the transitory intermediate states.
The sculptor’s old yearning is satisfied – the yearning to evoke things without materialising them.
Paul Katzberger, 2005 (translation: Tim Sharp)
Continue readingExhibitions
Wallpaper #6, evn sammlung, Maria Enzersdorf, 2023
Small Medium Large. Sculptures and Objects from the evn collection, evn sammlung, Maria Enzersdorf, 2022
Pawel Althamer & Anatoly Osmolovsky: Parallel Convergences at Casa di Tre Oci in Venice, V - A - C Foundation, Moscow, 2013
evn collection / institutional presentation, Viennafair, Vienna, 2011
Nach Rokytník. The collection of EVN, MUMOK, Vienna, 2005
Publications
evn sammlung 95–05, Cologne 2005, p. 250 f
Anatoly Osmolovsky. The way political positions turn in form [on the occasion of the exhibition at Stella Art Gallery, December 13th 2004 – January 1st 2005], 2004
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