A new exhibition Limits of Visibility has opened at the Vinzavod Center for Contemporary Art, continuing to gather an anthology of contemporary art.

During the exhibition, a public program will be held along with the release of a research catalog as part of the publishing program of the Vinzavod Center for Contemporary Art. The catalog will include documentation of the exhibition and a research study on the set theme: issues of vision and new vision will be examined from physiological, metaphorical, cultural, and anthropological perspectives.

The exhibition Limits of Visibility features works by 42 artists, including Vladimir Potapov, Leonid Tskha, Dmitry Bulnigin, Marina Belova, Alexey Politov, Yegor Koshelev, Roman Sakas, Vladimir Chernychev, Georgy Litichevsky, Platon Infante, Sayan Baigaliev, Pavel Polishchikov, Sasha Puchkova, Misha Goodwin, and many others.The artists explore questions of sight and the visible, engaging various viewpoints. Curator Sergey Khachaturov suggests considering new ways of spatial-temporal communication.

Artists explore issues of vision and the visible, engaging various perspectives. Curator Sergey Khachaturian suggests considering new ways of spatial-temporal communication with the world, shifting the focus of attention from central vision to peripheral, and through alternative visual pathways, mirrors, oblique trajectories, faceted vision, and other fragmentations, discovering a world that cannot be seen with a direct gaze.

"In relation to the central, mainstream gaze, the peripheral gaze is conflictual. It captures not a system, but a flow, not a structure, but entropy, not a whole, but a network of broken fragments. All these qualities relate to the dramatic upheaval of a new identity of humanity in the world, its reception features. At the same time, non-classical systems of visual communication allow for the expansion of the boundaries of the universe, incorporating what was previously overlooked. Thus, understanding the world becomes more complex and comprehensive,"
noted the project's curator Sergey Khachaturian. 

Exhibition visitors can build an individual route using the layout map located at the entrance or purchase a ticket for a mediating tour. Tours take place daily four times a day during exhibition hours. The participants of the exhibition address the theme of vision in a variety of aspects: from information consumption in the modern world to the generational imprint left on the apartment floor, from light refractions to the imprint of the artistic image on the retina.

According to Khachaturov, "it was important to invite masters who could abandon academic constraints in favor of facet vision. Facet vision is characteristic of insects like butterflies, bees, and dragonflies. The structure of their eyes, shaped like a convex hexagon, allows them to cover a full sphere of view. Many representatives from different generations related to object-oriented art are invited to participate, ranging from masters to zoomers and graduates of the Open Studios of Winzavod. The main selection criterion is the extraordinary ability of each participant."

The exhibition is divided into five thematic sections, each representing different visual possibilities, limitations, distortions, and images:

• The side view resonates with the work of the collector and archivist: art here consists of artifacts obtained from the border zones of vision.
• The blind spot and fixation point define two poles of perception: the brain fills in the missing details of what is seen or focuses on minutiae and details.
• Afterimages interpret in metaphors what remains after examining any object with a strictly fixed gaze.
• The slit and cut analyze new meanings of the unknown world that emerges in strange cuts of the everyday picture of the world.
• The Amsler grid presents whimsical visual puzzles, riddles, and attractions of optical art. 

Special project with the podcast Talk About Art.

Specifically for the exhibition, the podcast about art, current exhibitions, and important topics in art history, Talk About Art will create a series of three episodes dedicated to the issue of vision in the history of art. The authors are art historians Regina Nehaeva and Yulia Karpenkova. In the episodes, they discuss how assessments of artists' work change, new facts are discovered, since there is no consensus on many questions that are assumed to be answered.

What does the winged eye mean? How does the direct perspective in Renaissance paintings flatter us? What did Heinrich Wölfflin come up with for his students? Answers to these and other questions in the first episode.

In the second episode of the podcast, the hosts discussed optical experiments that fascinated artists of the past as they created unexpected distortions of reality. Why did Leonardo da Vinci write from right to left? What did Hans Holbein hide in the portrait of the two ambassadors? How can gestalt psychology and modern art be connected? In the second issue.

In the third and final issue of the series, the podcast hosts suggest tracing how technological progress, the system of art education, and rapid changes in the cultural context are altering the perception of art. How did the invention of photography in the 19th century provoke numerous creative experiments among French painters? In what ways do artists, both past and present, interpret the visual noise of the city? How does our personal visual experience shape our view of art? Answers in the final episode.

Tickets for the exhibition
Tickets for guided tours
Registration for the public program

Artists

Baigaliyev Sayan, Belov Ivan, Belova Marina, Politov Alexey, Bulnygin Dmitry, Vasilyev Alexey, Vasilyev Daniil, Gerasimenko Ekaterina, Gordeyev Alexander, Goodwin Misha, Yelikuka, Zhuravleva Margarita, Infante Platon, Katika, Team 'Toy', Koshelev Egor, Lavrov Alexander, Lapshinova Anna, Lisitsa Lena, Litvinova Anastasia, Litichevsky Georgiy, Lotsmanov Sergey,  Daria Maltseva, Anton Morokov, Slava Nesterov, Gleb Nobody, Alena Paskhina, Pavel Polshchikov, Ekaterina Popchenko, Vladimir Potapov, Sasha Puchkova, Vanya Repkin, Mikhail Rubankov, Roman Sakin, Nikita Spiridonov, Alexey Starkov, Anna Tagantseva, Yakov Khorev, Leonid Tskhe, Ivan Chemakin, Vladimir Chernyshev, Elena Sharganova.

The curator of the project is Sergey Khachaturov, curator, art historian, candidate of art studies, associate professor at the Department of History of Russian Art of the Faculty of History at Lomonosov Moscow State University, teacher at the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography, studio school of the Moscow Art Theatre, senior research associate at the State Institute of Art Studies. Author of exhibition programs: the trilogy "Ulenchshpigel" (MMM, EKArtBureau, VLADEY), a series of exhibitions by the TsTI Factory ("Labor Movement", "ProManifestation", "Energy of Expectation", "Et in Arcadia ego", "Notation"). Author of the exhibition programs for the online resource ROMAN OF GOTHIC TASTE at the Tsaritsyno State Museum-Reserve: "The Living Play of the Empress", "The Ghost of the Knight", "Hypnosis of Space", "Cosmorama XVIII", "Bird Concert", "Odoevsky". Curator of exhibitions: "Schwartzman's Orchards", "Grositsky. Materiality", "Machinery of Spectacles", JART (Vladimir Kartashov. Innocent Mischiefs. Technorococo, "Ouroboros") at MMOMA.