SISTEMA GALLERY was a participant in the 4th edition of the blazar young art fair, which was held at the Museum of Moscow from 21 to 24 Sep 2023. Stand number 14.

The artists: Sasha Yakutina, Syugir Buluktaev, Ira Lensberr.

For the fair specially, Sasha Yakutina designed the installation “4D”, which represents a room with walls, floor and a ceiling printed on banner fabric and 4 real works of art printed on plastic hung inside. The stand also featured a painting by Syugir Buluktaev, which was part of the solo exhibition “Horse-Tulip” at the gallery in 2023. And a series of paintings by Ira Lensberr “Enveloping Silence” with new works.

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SASHA YAKUTINA

“4D” Installation

“Hyperspace or the 4th spatial dimension. We live in three-dimensional space and understand perfectly well what it looks like. It is also easy to understand what 2-dimensional and 1-dimensional spaces look like. But it is difficult for us to realise what the 4th dimension appears to be like. This can only be done with imagination and on the basis of scientists’ theories about the 4th spatial dimension. Charles Hinton (mathematician) came up with three ways to “see” hyperspace, one of which is to make objects visible from all sides at once. As an example, a simple cube figure is often given, which is drawn flat and then expanded into a 3D volume. The “4D” installation is a box with images of a room printed all over the walls. We are inside the set and can view it from all sides and angles, so we have access to more detailed information about the room. We are inside a three-dimensional expansion of a hypercube. Also my artwork is displayed in the interior and it is real”.

Sasha Yakutina

SYUGIR BULUKTAEV

Horses and tulips are the main characters in the work of Syugir Buluktaev, they are associated with Kalmykia, the motherland of the artist. The horse occupies a central place in the traditional culture of the Kalmyks, a result of their nomadic way of life on the vast steppes. The epos of the Mongolian- and Turkic-speaking peoples has a special genre, “magtal to the horse” (“praise to the horse”) – an ode to its beauty and virtues. Horses, meanwhile, have incredible power and miraculous properties, such as the ability to fly and speak. A prime example here is the 15th century Kalmyk heroic epos “Dzhangar”, described as “the epic of the glorious horsemen.

Syugir Buluktaev’s work is like a new “magtal to the horse”, but this timeless story now continues in visual form. His horses, as in the ancient epic, are far removed from reality – they are fairy tales, and for the artist horses embody pure energy, carrying light. Their manes and tails are like lush clouds, their iridescent eyes shine like kaleidoscopes – as if they were made to see other worlds through which they ride. In painting, textures of clouds and flowers, abstract patterns remind of arts and crafts, national fabrics, and the vivid colours of paintings are the riot of colours of the blooming steppe.

IRA LENSBERR

“Enveloping Silence” is a series of paintings in which the artist explores philosophical existence, aesthetics of dull daily life, depression of modern man in the city, problems of social memory, which are reflected in the paintings through the feeling of enveloping silence. The project consists of 17 paintings of different formats, united in 2 series: “Silence” and “Anticipation”.