Igor Pestov

pestov_08_0Born in 1963 in the town of Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg). Graduated from the SverdlovskArtCollege n. a. Shadr, from the Painting-Pedagogical Department. Graduated from the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture n. a. I. E. Repin, the Graphics Department, the studio of easel graphics under professor V. A. Vetrogonsky, St. Petersburg. Exhibitions: annual exhibitions within the framework of the art festival “Nadzheda”, “FROM THE AVANT-GARDE TO OUR DAYS”, Leningrad Artists’ Union, St. Petersburg. Solo exhibitions: “PERSONAL STORY”, Leningrad Artists’ Union, St. Petersburg.

The project Civilization of consumption

Art always makes apparent the artist’s innermost feelings, I call this “a personal story”. I see the contemporary world as the image of the plastic neo-Baroque, “plenty”, the accessibility of any animal pleasures, of any instinctive joys. Millions are made on the lowest instincts. Man is becoming more and more like a controlled zombie, who is given various lures not only for the body, but for the mind as well. Everything genuinely human today is in opposition, because the Civilisation of Consumption is more interested in exploiting animal instincts.
I presented the project Civilisation of Consumption. The work consists of three parts. In the centre of the composition there is the big Cross of Consumption. It is tragic and comical. Buchenwald and the Horn of Plenty are mixed in a sign of mourning. The work Seven Deadly Sins is about the childish infantile, supposedly, innocent animal instincts, about the lack of desire to see oneself responsible for the choice, for what has been done. The other part of the composition Birds – is the naturally determined fate of the philistine-zombie, the image of the broiler on the spit. The work Russian Bread: Russia after the collapse of the USSR, the post-Communist trauma, the destruction of utopia, Soviet pseudo-optimism, the illusion of wholeness and “ruddy healthiness”, the tragedy of the everyday on the background of the cracked guilt of Stalin’s Empire.

Igor Pestov


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