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Revision (Your Favorites)

2005

The group is also called Your Favorites.

Selected events

Selected Artwork Series

Articles on KALEKTAR

Associated Documents

"Revision" (Revision; founded in 2005 in Düsseldorf, Germany) is an artistic group consisting of Maxim Vakulchik, Zhanna Grak, Andrey Dureiko, Andrey Loginov and Maxim Tyminko.

revision project. Part I & Part II is one of the most spectacular projects of the 2000s in Belarusian contemporary art. Its authors were five Belarusian artists who studied at the Dusseldorf Academy of Arts, living and working in Germany. The authors point out that their group is not a collective in the traditional sense, but an episodic collective practice against the backdrop of individual strategies, defining the Revision group as an open club where various aesthetic issues and ideas can be discussed, as well as joint projects. Usually the team is exhibited under the name of the current project: Revision or Your Favorites. One of the reasons for the emergence of the group was the desire of artists to transfer to new conditions the experience of collective actions and performances carried out by them in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Minsk.

The theme of "art as a clarification of the picture of the world" is a key one for the Revision project. On the one hand, the name of the project refers to the concept of 'revision' in its literal sense, in this case, revision of art, inventory and reassessment of artistic values. On the other hand, 'revision' is an homage to Gogol's The Government Inspector. Theatricality and staging of the mise-en-scene, grotesque and irony, refer us to the famous "silent stage". Oversaturation with quotes, a variety of visual codes, an abundance of details turn this diptych into a giant, ten-meter-high puzzle-rebus that draws in and does not let go of the attentive viewer.

A 'revision' can only be classified as a "digital photograph" because of the technology used by the authors to process and print the image. Actually photography, in its purest form, this work can not be called. It is rather a picture, a complex structure that is formed and filled with content from the articulation of many elements into one whole inseparable pictorial space.

In the project “Revision. Act II” artists were interested in the clash of classical form and the ideas of modernist art. Each of the parts of the polyptych symbolizes a separate genre of art presented in a conditional museum space after the “futurist” revision. This work refers to Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's "First Manifesto of Futurism" used by the group in their text project "Apollo and Dionysus at Sunset": “Museum and cemeteries! They are indistinguishable from each other ... Well, where are the glorious arsonists with burned hands?