Tags: Andrew Logan, Globe Gallery, Irena Kuksenaite, Mattori, San Petersburg, San Pietroburgo, Savelij Archinpenko
Contemporary art, artistic planning and endlessly evolving research. Globe Gallery was set up in St Petersburg on 2 June 2007 by architect Savelij Archinpenko, the creator of FLOORS, the city’s first loft and the space where the Gallery is located, a 150 square-metre piece of industrial architecture flooded with light, on the fifth floor of an old building in the city centre. Paintings, installations, art and video performances are set in a modern space, that takes on exciting changing atmospheres with surfaces that are at once fittings and setting. Neutral colours enable viewers to fix their eye on the items on display in a space where everything is enfolded in the whiteness and light of a chalk-coloured cloud, as if the overall layout had the continuity of one huge installation. As the first exhibition clearly showed, the guiding principle of Globe Gallery’s choices is the belief that art can create a parallel world, an echo of the real one, a space where new art forms are brought to the forefront, and where a new generation of artists can arise from the imaginative power of young talents. Under the name Divine Alliances, the exhibition has displayed both the works by the English sculptor Andrew Logan and the artistic achievements of the Russian artist Irena Kuksenaite. In a world where the canons and contents of contemporary art trends are all too identifiable, Globe Gallery’s are now widening their research to new challenging fields, inaccessible to those who are unwilling to look ahead beyond their limitations. This year the space has displayed for the second time the rich exotic mystery of the latest works by the Mongolian artist BAZO, who is currently working with the Moscow-born writer MOST at an exhibition entitled “ NO FUTURE FOR …”, to outline new developments in future art.
Concept Orietta Pelizzari e Matteo Bardi
Ph Globe Gallery