Third ear

The exhibition «Third ear» was opened at the Center of Modern Art AZ/ART. Curator, art historian Alexander Dashevsky, presents a project on how music gets into the life of modern human and how intangible sound acquires material forms. Thus AZ/ART will continue the conversation about music, which started this summer with the first exhibition of the Center «Unobvious Crossings».

Alexander Dashevsky, curator of the exhibition:
«The third ear is an exhibition-phantasmagoria, designed as a journey from the source of sound to the brain through the external auditory canal, the eardrum and the cochlea. This journey will immerse us in the social nature of music. How do the sounds we hear around us affect our consciousness? At the same time, the exhibition is a drift of the mind of the lyric hero of the exhibition. He is trying to fall asleep to the sounds of the radio. The melody that he sings carries his tired soul through situations and places where acoustic culture has entered his life».

In the AZ/ART museum you can find works of MYTH Gallery artists: vinyl records and tapestries by Katya Isaeva and work «2020» by Vadim Mikhailov.

«Specially for the project Katya Isaeva made two records, on one of which you can hear singing of extinct birds - mainly affected by human gross interference in the natural environment, and on another («12 songs of Taiwan») — different sound fragments like work of a garbage truck, creating an audio support state whose existence remains in question for many. And also Isaeva ironically concocts notions of high and low in her work Shallow, which is both like a medieval tapestry, and a cozy bourgeois rug like the ones that adorned the walls of Soviet apartments. There is, however, and the same to modern culture: the replicas of the characters are depicted in «bubbles», as in comic books, but instead of the usual words — lines from a song by Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga Shallow.» — Ksenia Vorotzintseva describes the works of Katya Isaeva.

Photo: Vasiliy Bulanov