Art and Music I
The artist group PG -
video works
   
The Group PG was founded in 1998. It now consists of Ilya Falkovsky, Alexey Katalkin and Boris Spiridonov. PG is a play on words that can be interpreted differently, for example as “Criminal Group”, “Hydrant” or “Hand Grenade”.

The group activity is multifunctional. It publishes its own magazines and postcards, releases musical albums, makes comics and performances. The main topics are the cruel realities of daily life, but it is ironically reflected through a lyric approach of Moscow psychedelic culture. The Artists play the roles of Russian massmedia charcters: gangsters, Chechen extremists, street hooligans, subculture representatives. The group unites different lines of activity into “multimedial comics” – installations where photos and graphics go together with video and soundtrack.

(Text: Accomplices. Collective and Interactive Works in Russian Art of the 1960s – 2000s. Moscow 2005, p. 120)

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Exhibition runs 31.3.-20.05.2007
Thu-Sat 2-6PM in April, Fri-Sun in May

 
Ilja Muromec, 2006, Video, Videostills
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