[spectre] Genia Chef/Nicholas Folland

[EAF Director]

EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION
6pm 6 October to 5 November

Genia Chef Gloria Novi Saeculi
gallery talk 4pm friday 7 october
"Genia Chef is one of the chief artists of the Novia Akademia group, 
which originated in St Petersburg, inspired by the ideas and theories 
of the late Timur Novikov. Novikov saw that art, apparently set free 
to do whatever it wished by the fall of Soviet Communism, was in fact 
endangered by the brutality of new, unregulated capitalism. He said 
once that advertising had now stolen the idea of beauty, and that it 
was the duty of progressive art to steal it back. He understood that 
the much-publicised perestroika artists of the Gorbachev era had been 
so dependent on the use of official Soviet symbolisms that with the 
fall of the regime they had lost the most intimate part of their 
subject matter. And he was keenly sensitive to the classical beauty 
of St Petersburg itself. Most of these themes can be traced in Genia 
Chef's work. He uses the most modern image-making techniques, based 
on computer digitisation and often developed for purely commercial 
purposes, to construct images of melancholy dignity." (Edward 
Lucie-Smith)
Genia Chef received his artistic education in Moscow and moved to 
Berlin in 1985. Recent solo exhibitions include at the Contemporary 
and Modern Art Gallery, Republic of San Marino (2005), White Space 
Gallery, London (2004), Freud's Dreams Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia 
(2002). Recent group exhibitions include the Western Biennale of Art 
at John Natsoulas Art Center, California (2005), Russian Art Today, 
Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany & Russia; Frissiras Museum, Athens, 
Greece (2004). Chef's works are held in numerous European and USA 
collections.
Gloria Novi Saeculi gives a retrospective view on the history of the 
20th century, the destructiveness of which Genia compares with the 
Golden Age of mankind.

Nicholas Folland Doldrum
gallery talk 5pm friday 7 october
"After much hardship and considerable sacrifice, I have completed 
mapping the world, forecasting potential drift relative to other 
speculative factors. The results are substantially more alarming than 
I had previously predicted. I have attached a copy of my research for 
your immediate consultation." (Nicholas Folland, July 2005)
Formerly from Adelaide and now completing a Masters of Visual Arts at 
the Sydney College of Arts, Nicholas Folland is an installation 
artist. His work examines the relationship between the domestic or 
interior spaces of urban environments and the border zones associated 
with the perceived limits of these controlled regions, resulting in 
the reinterpretation of the outside world in a form that is both 
tangible and reconciled.
Nicholas has received numerous awards including an Ann & Gordon 
Samstag International Visual Art Scholarship in 1999 and the 
Australia Council's Barcelona studio in 2002. In 2005 he was 
shortlisted for the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship. He 
has exhibited widely including in the 2004: Australian Culture Now 
exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria. Nicholas Folland is 
represented by Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide.

Phone EAF Director, Melentie Pandilovski, for further details  +61 
(0)8 82117505

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The Experimental Art Foundation is assisted by the Commonwealth 
Government through the Australia Council, it arts funding and 
advisory body, by the South Australian Government through Arts SA, 
and through the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the 
Australian, State and Territory Governments.