Quarantine autograph session and a homage to Manzoni

May 17 in the Museum of Odessa modern art to the international Museum day will host the "Quarantine autograph session and a homage to Manzoni", in which invited artists will leave their autographs on the masks visitors. It just so happened that art, considering the reality as an aesthetic object, constantly shocking normative society with their supposedly inhuman, attitude toward the ongoing reality, a kind of look of a stranger from another world by transforming any event into a work of art. Modern art does not define the differences between artificial and real. But in the age of virtual reality there is no other relationship should not wait. Sometimes it seems that art is degraded, but in fact it colonized everyday world, giving him and his things on a whole new meaning, offering a different attitude to it to form additional dimensions and value. What to the layman seems boring, ugly, unworthy of attention for the artist, especially the modern, is a great source of inspiration, the material for the study, the field of application of interests and skills, a way of resolving issues directly related to art. Once upon a time (60 years ago) the French conceptualist Yves Klein, the audience was engaged in painting using brushes instead of Nudes. As if responding to the typical question of the layman: "You're an artist? A naked woman can draw?", Yves Klein began to paint naked women. His friend Piero Manzoni in some aspects went even further, as works of art signed Nude. Absolutely nothing drawing, just put his signature on the crown of creation. The fact that Klein was a tool, for Manzoni was the final piece ready-made. Now, surviving a global pandemic and quarantine, we want to record our memories of the moments have changed us all. May 17, 2020, in the Museum of Odessa modern art will host the "Quarantine autograph session and a homage to Manzoni", in which invited artists will leave their autographs on the masks in the Museum. The action was attended by: Sergey Anufriev, Sergey Belik, Bondero, Anatoly Gankevich, Igor Gusev, Dmitry Ehrlich. The curators of the project: "group the World" (Sergey Anufriev, Igor Gusev), Tatiana Margarita Xu. This autograph session is a sacred ritual appropriation of reality with the intention in the future to turn it into a work of art. The fact that in one case, scaring, and maybe even killing them, in the context of art becomes an artifact, the subject of artistic creativity expressed as a gesture of appropriation. Attention! Quarantine autograph session will be held in the courtyard of the Museum, all participants will wear masks, to ensure that social distance will be the markings. Masks, as well as the autographs of the artists will be given free, but if you want to support the Museum and its projects – you will be able to make a donation in a special box.