Follow the Rainbow

Find a crockpot of butter And eat it Look around Go into the woods Go back Dig up treasure Ponder Witness a bean tree growing And a rainbow on the rear glass frame Smile Become upset Grow a bean tree And pretend like nothing happened On December, 22 ISSMAG gallery opens a series of exhibitions curated by TZVETNIK (Vitaly Bezpalov, Natalya Serkova). With this exhibition series, TZVETNIK begins its exploration of the emergent environment of promising young Russian-speaking artists, many of whom are just beginning their careers. The curators set themselves the task of discovering new names in Russian contemporary art, showing young artists who are often not yet fully represented on the art scene and creating a discourse in the Russian art environment with connections to current trends in art. The roster of artists for this exhibition season was formed as a result of an open call which the curators, together with ISSMAG, announced in the fall of 2020. The shortlisted artists work across a variety of themes and genres, yet, in the curators' perception, they share an interest in the latest formal and conceptual approaches to art, synchronicity with global trends and a desire to experiment. The first exhibition entitled Follow the Rainbow will present the following artists: Alina Brovina, Yaroslav Levitsky, Kristina Matveeva, Sasha Nesterkina, Yuri Otinov, Andrey Pokrovsky, and Sveta Tsepkalo. The exhibition will open on December, 22 at 19:00 on Malyy Karetny Alley, 9/1, Moscow. ______ TZVETNIK is a research platform created in 2016 by artist Vitaly Bezpalov and theorist Natalya Serkova. The project aims to highlight, aggregate and analyze the latest trends in global contemporary art, as well as to develop and expand the current ideas and practices of a new generation of artists in Russia and beyond. TZVETNIK aims to expand and strengthen links between artistic communities in different countries and to support young artists at the very beginning of their careers. ISSMAG is an initiative that brings together like-minded and enthusiastic people with shared outlook on global artistic methods and practices. The gallery works with a generation of artists who supports innovative artistic strategies and outcomes. The peculiarity of their creative identity relies on cosmopolitanism, shaped in equal measure by local context. Dishon Yuldash remains a founder and director of ISSMAG since its inception. Counting from 2016, the gallery has been located in Malyy Karetny Alley, Moscow, in the proximity of Hermitage Garden.