January 19, 2005
Trekhprudny Lane
A Waste of Time and Money
Photo (left): MOSCOW 16.1.1992, by Alexander Gormatiuk, Vladimir Dubosarsky, Avdey Ter-Oganian, and Alexander Kharchenko: A tour guide was hired to guide the public with a megaphone on a four hours bus trip around Moscow. The trip included all the typical Moscow sight-seeings as well as some carefully selected liquor stores and it finally ended up where it had started, at the Trekhprudny Lane.
"The history of Trekhprudny Lane began in 1990, right after the end of the "USSR boom" in Western art institutions and shortly before the collapse of the USSR. Avdey Ter-Oganian arrived in Moscow from a provincial Town called Rostov-on-Don, together with some artist-friends in order to conquer Moscow with their artist-group called "Art or Death". The artists squatted a building on Trekhprudny Lane, a street in the center of Moscow, where they installed individual studios and a gallery space in common. They defined their gallery program as a "waste of time and money" and enjoyed their burlesque weekly openings together with the Moscow art community that soon found its way to Trekhprudny Lane." Kristofer Paetau [via Rhizome]
Posted by jo at January 19, 2005 02:31 PM
