Until
Dec 20 03
 For
his first solo exhibition in the UK, Russian artist Pavel Pepperstein
presents a series of 18 watercolours on paper.
After the
dissolution of the Soviet Union, many Russian artists were seduced by
western mass culture. In opposition to the new influences Pepperstein
co-founded the ‘Inspection Medical Hermeneutics’ (*1987).
“The artistic agenda of Pepperstein and Medical Hermeneutics basically
consists of artificially creating a subculture that looks as if it were
just about to explode the boundaries of its self contained and exclusive
seclusion.”
Pepperstein
writes that the soul of all things lie outside the things themselves,
as in an ancient Russian fairy tale, in which the life force of the hero,
Kaschtschej, is preserved in an egg that is concealed somewhere outside
his body. In order to find and kill Kaschtschej, one must find the egg,
but the search for the egg always leads farther and farther away from
Kaschtschej himself. Correspondingly, the meaning of a picture or a text
is not found within but somewhere outside.
Pavel Pepperstein
lives and works in Moscow. His work is currently exhibited in the Berlin
/ Moscow exhibition in the Martin-Gropius Bau in Berlin. His most recent
solo exhibitions were at the Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland and the Neuer
Aachener Kunstverein, Germany. He was participating in group exhibitions
and the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany, the Kunsthaus Zug and the
Valencia Biennale.
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