Avant-garde is both a conceptual term indicating what criteria a person chooses for his positioning in society, and an artistic reference point. In both cases, we are talking about a radical rethinking of one’s place in society and in art in the context of criticizing conformism and overcoming the rigidity of social and artistic frameworks
Usually, ideas and projects appear first on paper. Paper is the lightest, simultaneously plastic material; it is both a basis for the text and a structure that allows you to design and create new projects right on the table, without waiting for a distant embodiment in a more solid form. Object from the Adventures of the
The Polygon group was formed in 1990 by artists Boris Markovnikov and Natalia Smolianskaia. All projects of the group were implemented with the “playing” curator Igor Chirikov. In the conceptual program of the group, one can observe both a rejection of technocratic society inherent in the counterculture, as well as a critical approach to the