09 July 2025 08:35:56
closed
c/o careof

Non-profit organization for contemporary art

c/o careof

Light Link. 5 artisti da Minksk, Novosibirsk e Vlasivosto

Light Link is the result of a research project on contemporary art in Minsk, Novosibirsk, and Vladivostok, presenting in Milan the work of five artists: Blue Noses, Drum Ecstasy, Katya Kandyba, Tsesler and Voichenko, Andrey Savitsk.

Light Link refers to the lightness inherent in the language of the selected works—digital photographs and videos—but also to the shared Soviet past of the cities of Minsk, Novosibirsk, and Vladivostok.

The group Blue Noses was formed in 1999 and is composed of Slava Mizin (1962), Dmitry Bulnygin (1965), Konstantin Skotnikov (1958), Alexander Shaburov (1965), and Maxim Zonov (1966–2001). Videos, images, and performances by Blue Noses are dominated by a brutal sense of humor. The artists perform boisterously, drawing attention like intrusive clowns—angry, vulgar, and wicked.

The group Drum Ecstasy consists of three percussionists and a bassist: Philipp Tchmyr (1968), Aliaksandr Krautsou (1972), Aliaksandr Haroh (1978), and Stsiapan Bitus (1981). Katya Kandyba (1968) narrates, through installations and performances marked by light and nostalgic humor, the present of her country, still entangled in a heavy past.

Tsesler e Voichenko, that is, Vladimir Tsesler (1951) and Sergey Voichenko (1955), are a pair of multifaceted artists; their production spans design, graphics, sculpture, painting, drawing, body art, and advertising. Tsesler e Voichenko approach any subject with an ironic, citation-heavy, commercial, and ambiguous language that delights in paradoxes, blends expressive techniques, and creates surreal objects and situations.
Andrey Savitsky (1971) uses and observes photography, video, sounds, and computers to reveal their weaknesses, fragility, and sweetness.