In 2017, Melisa Erdem, a student from The International School of Moscow, was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and fought for her life in the intensive care unit. Fortunately, Melisa survived and soon was discharged from the hospital. Living with this horrific condition meant that Melisa would be tied to hospitals for the rest of her life. There was only one permanent solution – a heart transplant.
Although doctors, concerned with Melisa's state of health, first recommended delaying the operation to avoid possible complications, Melisa has recently got an infection, meaning her heart transplant surgery needs to take place as soon as possible.
Born out of hope and a genuine belief in people's kindness, 'Art to Heart' is an artistic cry for help and a glorious tribute to altruism. It's less of an ordinary exhibition or an auction and more of an immersive experience that invites you on a journey of empathy and creativity to the depths of Melisa's heart.
The auction will consist of two parts: Fine Art and Contemporary. You can participate in the auction both online at bidspirit.com and in person at Cube.Moscow at The Ritz-Carlton, Moscow.
Artists:
AM Group, Irina Babkina, Dmitry Berezovsky, Zhanna Bobrakova, Svetlana Bogacheva, Sergei Boyarintsev, Vladimir Vasiliev, Katya Garkushko, Noy Nestorovich Gedenidze, Ekaterina Gerasimenko, Maria Golovkina, Alisa Gorelova, Goodwin, Anya Zhelud, Dmitry Zheravov, Katya Zhingel, Tania Zhingel , Aleksadra Kokacheva, Sergey Kolosov, Nadya Kosinskaya, Anastasia Litvinova, Lena Lipatova, Sergey Lotsmanov, Victoria Malkova, Semyon Motolyanets, Daria Neretina, Alexandra Ominina, Gosha Ostretsov, Vova Perkin, Liza Plaksa, Danila Polyakov, Victor Ponomarenko, Ivan Razumnov, Maria Safronova, Anna Sedova Elephant, Anya Soz, Haim Sokol, Natalia Spechinskaya, Evgenia Sterlyagova, Liza Tokareva, Alexandra Fateeva, Katya Finkelstein, Alexander Florensky, Maria Kholmogorova, Vasya Horst, Nika Chernyaeva, Zhenya Sharvina, Elena Blagos, Brad Din Chapman, Lena Dmitrieff, Exantres, Dmitrieff Hörtnagl, Lisbeth Luft, Alex Sorbonne.
Auction curators:
Olga Lomanova, Fundraiser of the Ural Industrial Biennale
Katya Finkelstein, independent curator, artist
We would like to thank artists, parents of the school and all caring people who offered works from their collections for the auction, as well as those who took an active part in organizing the auction.
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LOT 48:
Gosha Ostretsov; Horse, 2021; canvas, acrylic, charcoal; 100 x100 cm
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Gosha Ostretsov; Horse, 2021; canvas, acrylic, charcoal; 100 x100 cm
Gosha Ostretsov began his career in the mid-1980s. While still a student at the Moscow Theater School of Art and Technology at the Bolshoi Theater, he attended the legendary art squat "Kindergarten", in those years one of the most progressive art spots in Moscow. There he met Konstantin Zvezdochetov, Nikolai Filatov, Georgy Litichevsky. And there he was "infected" with the ideas of the new wave that was actual in the 1980s in the world of art and began to create paintings, his first comics, installations, art objects and even costumes, to arrange performance shows that unite fashion and art. Of the works of this period, the most famous are Ostretsov's costumes, in which, it seems, there is something from the Russian avant-garde that was just "discovered" during perestroika, and from the Soviet propaganda propaganda of the 1920s, and even something from the stellar Leningrad "New Artists", with whom Ostretsov also spoke.
Living and working in Paris in the 1990s, Gosha Ostretsov successfully implemented avant-garde ideas in the fashion industry by creating his own clothing brand in collaboration with another Russian designer. These were experiments with various complex materials, for example, with rubber, photo prints on fabric were actively used. This period was also marked by collaboration with Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Jean-Paul Gaultier, idols of that time. Unusual head-masks made of plastic, made in the Parisian period of the artist's life, can be seen in the famous film by Luc Besson "Taxi" in 1998.
Many of Ostretsov's projects are distinguished by artistic courage and provocativeness. The largest and longest-running of them - a dystopian project on the relationship between the authorities and society "New Government" - was created in 1999 and exhibited for the first time in the gallery of Marat Guelman. It includes installations, objects, performances and art actions. The ideas and characters of the "New Government", depersonalized people in gray and black masks, symbolizing power and law, were developed in many other works of the artist.
At the same time, in the 1990s, Gosha Ostretsov began to take an interest in theology and icon painting, which influenced the artist's work. He was always interested in the religious art of different eras, especially ancient Egyptian paintings and Russian icons. The successive series of images encountered in them, developing a certain story, served as one of the sources of what later became known as the art of comics. Returning in the 1990s and 2000s to the aesthetics of comics, Gosha Ostretsov creates author's iconography in the spirit of the mainstream comic. At the same time, unlike Roy Lichtenstein and many other artists working in the style of pop art, Ostretsov does not copy ready-made samples, but develops his own graphic history, close to comics in the style of action. Ostretsov himself says this about it: “A comic is a picture in development, like a movie. Cinema has long been a full-fledged art form, and comics are a conciliatory form between painting and cinema. Time can be shown in one picture at once. This is a kind of narrative. I am more of a storyteller: in each series of works, I introduce a new character and create a story. The comic moves away from a concrete psychological portrait, turning everything into an abstract story. This is a complete antithesis to classical art. Only pop art dared to turn in art to comics, to popular culture, which, when taken to the point of absurdity, turns into a work of art. "
In the 2010s, Gosha Ostretsov organized the VGLAZ artists community, which included Georgy Litichevsky, Lyudmila Konstantinova, Sergey Pakhomov, as well as Irina Korina, Natalia Struchkova, the EliKuka group and others. All together they worked in one workshop called "Studio KOP", where they organized exhibitions. During this period, Ostretsov worked a lot with wood, creating large objects and installations illustrating his world of fantastic dystopias, this project is complemented by paintings, graphics and graphic novels.
Ostretsov's works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), the NCCA (Moscow), in the private collections of Frederick Paulsen, Lawrence Graff, Roman Abramovich, Simon de Pury.
