ORELART PARIS Art Contemporain Russe et International

Yuri Shabelnikov‘s Requiem of The Will Project is a body of work dedicated to contemporary romanticism, a romanticism tainted with totalitarism.

Today it is true that art from any totalitarian society presents a certain connexion with the parent, a connection quasi-genetic, be it in the architectoral or pictorial area. To be more precise this body of work expresses the variations of a possible artistic current, which we can identify as a kind of contemporary post romanticism.

In the works realised this romantic composant is shown as somewhat hyper-trophied, sometimes touching parody. This relentlessness, this urging, has evidently also served as a target for socialist art up to conceptualism (in the Russian context) since the construction by its actors of an artistic strategy.
The essential method for this strategy is for the memory of irony and deconstruction.

Today socialist and conceptual art are present in the museums of world over. The quest of post romanticism explains itself above all by a desire to reconstruct the atmosphere, which surrounded the creatures of this art. When we take into consideration the chronicles or art films of the period it is difficult to imagine or to understand why or how these ideological pipe dreams were made so passionate, In effect, the Requiem of the will, a work in which commiseration and the condolences dominate over irony and scepticism is a contemporary attempt to understand the reasons and to put them to light.