Theme of the memory is special in the context of the work of Andrey Anro, an artist who grew up in the post-Soviet space, where private memory is replaced by collective memory, and family memory ends with the names of the 4th generation. The conflict between the individual and society comes to the fore in the artist's work, and painting becomes a means of representing political systems based on fear. In the new series, called «Dictatorship», Anro's answers about the nature of dictatorship lie beneath the surface: firstly it is a metaphysical experience; secondly, an existential one; and, finally, a bodily one.
In the works Evgeny Granilshchikov portrays human figures, deliberately taken out of context, and draws the viewer's attention to their explicit plasticity. Granilshchikov cites 19th-century German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, who often portrayed his characters from the back, as the central reference and inspiration for this work. While in Caspar David Friedrich's paintings the landscape reflects the protagonist's inner state, in Granilshchikov's work the negative space of white paper surrounding the characters becomes a metaphor for an invisible threat and hidden political pressure.

24-27 September 2020
Marx Halle, Karl-Farkas-Gasse 19, 1030, Vienna