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Alexei Gordin's solo exhibition “How could it happen?”
03.08.2021
Alexei Gordin's exhibition’s “How could it happen?” opening will take place on Thursday, August 5, from 7 pm to 9 pm. DJ NIKA will play the music and Kalamaja Brewery supports the event. Visitors who feel healthy are welcome.
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The exhibition is open Mon – Fri 12–18, Sat 12–16 until August 29.
The exhibition is open Mon – Fri 12–18, Sat 12–16 until August 29.
Exhibition “How could this happen?” deconstructs the “art bubble” by colliding two different worlds: one of them is a silent, safe and isolated art world, and another one is a dangerous, aggressive, unpredictable reality where art doesn’t play any significant role. Many works are representing the art world through the prism of violence. The show includes the artist’s paintings and videos from 2019–2021, and this is Alexei Gordini’s 18th solo exhibition.
The installation consists of many different snippets collected from social media, cultural and social fields, artists’ observations, thoughts, and projections. Artist and criminal are placed in the same line, together with a calm art world and a feeling of catastrophe questioning our belonging to different groups and how we adapt to the fast-changing reality. Through the prism of artist existence, the author also meditates on global problems and how creative individuals are attached to the system that is not leaning on creativity but rather on strict mathematic structures. Protagonists in the artworks and their environment are endowed with symbolic meanings. Behind the factiousness of the art world is hidden the question about the factiousness of the social standards in general: how can we trust them and should we?
Alexei Gordin is an artist represented in the Kogo Gallery. He is currently participating in two group exhibitions: “Survival Kit for the Art Market” at the Kogo Gallery, which is open until August 14, and “New Age of Baltic” at the Art Corner H Gallery in Seoul, South Korea, which is open until September 4; Kogo gallery also presents Gordini’s video art from September 2 to 5 at Foto Tallinn art fair in Kai Art Center.
Alexei Gordin (1989) is mainly known as a painter; however, he also works with photography, video and performance. Using black humour, Gordin draws attention to the absurdity of the (art) world and alienation, highlighting inequality and the difficulties that marginalised groups experience. Gordin’s work is influenced by caricatures and combines text and pictures, referring to comics and meme culture.
