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The New Artists and the Mayakovsky Friends Club (1986-1990) Text: Hannelore Fobo, 2021 Chapter 13. The Report about the first year and corresponding New Artists chronicle entries previous page: Chapter 12. Document H. Mayakovsky Friends Club.Report about the first year (Sept.86-Sep. 87) next page: Chapter 14. Document I. Mayakovsky Friends Club. Appl. to the Main Department of Culture 1987 Table of contents: see bottom of page >> |
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Comparing the information retrieved from Novikov’s Mayakovsky Friends Club report for 1986 / 1987 with entries from Ksenia Novikova‘s chronicle for the the same period delivers some interesting results. I have already done so for 1986 on the previous pages. Below is an overview of those three chronicle entries; all three events happened at the Vodokanal Club: The situation is different for 1987. There are only two chronicle entries that mention the Mayakovsky Friends Club, and they both mention the New Artists. Neither event took place at the Vodokanal Club. The first entry concerns the Forum of the Leningrad Creative Youth:
Leningrad. The Palace of Youth. Forum of the Leningrad Creative Youth. The exhibition of the New Artists and the V. V. Mayakovsky Friends Club. Timur Novikov, Ivan Sotnikov, Oleg Kotelnikov, Evgenij Kozlov, Sergei “Afrika” Bugaev, Inal Savchenkov. The conjunction “and” in the sentence “The exhibition of the New Artists and the V. V. Mayakovsky Friends Club” paradoxically leads to a division of the six participating artists between the two groups (with five possible distributions: 1 + 5, 2 + 4, 3 + 3, 4 + 2, and 5 + 1) The second chronicle entry refers to the closing event at the ASSA Gallery on 12, 13, and 14 May. The Mayakovsky Friends Club is presented as one of the organising institutions, while the New Artists are called participants. All other events mentioned in Novikov’s report are listed in the chronicle with the New Artists label, that is, without any reference to the Mayakovsky Friends Club. I identified the following ten events:
14-26 January (New Artists, 2012, chronicle, p. 276)
Listed in Novikov‘s Mayakovsky Friends Club report as participation in the TEII exhibition. Note: The list of participating artists in TEII book (pp. 270) also mentions New Artists Alexei Kozin, Evgenij Kozlov, Oleg Maslov, Evgeny Yufit, but not Andrei Krisanov.
April (New Artists, 2012, chronicle, p. 276)
The festival Days of Culture – Art Kontakt. The New Artists featured in the festival programme: Oleg Kotelnikov, Ivan Sotnikov, Evgenij Kozlov, Timur Novikov, Sergei “Afrika” Bugaev, Inal Savchenkov. Listed in Novikov‘s Mayakovsky Friends Club report as Days of Culture in Riga, дни искусств в Риге. By contrast, some New Artists’ paintings were shown during Sergey Kuryokhin’s Pop Mekhanika concert with DJ Westbam (West-Berlin) on 15 April 1987, which was part of the festival. more >>
23-26 April (New Artists, 2012, chronicle, p. 276)
Timur Novikov, Ivan Sotnikov, Oleg Kotelnikov, Evgenij Kozlov, Sergei “Afrika” Bugaev, Inal Savchenkov. Listed in Novikov‘s Mayakovsky Friends Club report as Forum of the Leningrad Creative Youth, Форум творческой молодежи Ленинграда.
23-26 April (New Artists, 2012, chronicle, p. 276)
Listed in Novikov‘s Mayakovsky Friends Club report as ”Festival ‘Folklore-87’ of the ‘Soviet Culture’ newspaper.
12, 13, 14 May (New Artists, 2012, chronicle, p. 276) Leningrad. The ASSA Gallery.
This event is not in the 1987 report, but it is interesting in some other respects. Here, the Mayakovsky Friends Club is made one of the organising institutions, while the New Artists are called participants. Actually, the New Artists are also "constituents” of Popular Mechanics more >> • more >> • more >> and the New Theatre more >> • more >>, and from here it follows that the New Theatre is also a constituent of Pop Mekhanika. "The industrial group of the V.V. Mayakovsky Friends Club”, in turn, is a reference to Pop Mekhanika‘s "industrial group” Novikov mentions in “The Celebration of Arts”, a text he wrote after the “Happy New Year” Pop Mekhanika performance at the Rock Club, December 1985. In this text, published on p. 91 of the 1995 New Artists Antology 1982-1987, Novikov used the same cross references for groups and individuals as the chronicle entry. As a result, the number of participants appears to be larger than it actually is. I discussed Novikov's strategy in “Timur Novikov's New Artists Lists” (2018):
20 May-17 June (New Artists, 2012, chronicle, pp. 276-277)
Listed in Novikov‘s Mayakovsky Friends Club report as participation in the TEII exhibition. Note: the list of participating artists in TEII book (p. 290) also mentions New Artists Evgeny Yufit, Aleksei Kozin, and Oleg Maslov, but not Evgenij Kozlov, Inal Savchenkov and Sergei Bugaev (but V. Bugaev).
October (New Artists, 2012, chronicle, p. 277)
Listed in Novikov‘s Mayakovsky Friends Club report as exhibitions at the movie theatres “Aurora”, “Znamya”, Kolizei
December (New Artists, 2012, chronicle, p. 277)
This exhibtion is not included in Novikov’s Mayakovsky Friends Club report, but the film ASSA is mentioned in the theatre section.
December (New Artists, 2012, chronicle, p. 277)
Listed in Novikov‘s Mayakovsky Friends Club report as exhibitions at the movie theatres “Aurora”, “Znamya”, Kolizei
December (New Artists, 2012, chronicle p. 277)
Listed in Novikov‘s Mayakovsky Friends Club report as exhibitions at the movie theatres “Aurora”, “Znamya”, Kolizei. [1] This is the reason why I separated, in “Timur Novikov‘s Artists Lists”, the New Artists as a group of visual artists from the New Artists as a movement that also included musicians, poets etc. more >>. While Novikov himself was inconsistent with regard to such a exclusive / inclusive definition – for example in his lecture from 2002 – the structure of the Mayakovsky Friends Club mirrors such an “exclusive” definition: The New Artists as a group are all in the visual artists section, while those others constituting the larger New Artists movement (remaining anonymous in the report) are found in the other sections of the Mayakovsky Friends Club. next page: Chapter 14. Document I. Mayakovsky Friends Club. Appl. to the Main Department of Culture 1987
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