The first exhibition of the museum dedicated to the history of the Leningrad underground creative association “Mitki” has opened in the St. Petersburg art space mArs. In the future, the exhibits presented to the general public for the first time will become part of a new public space open to all citizens – the Mitki Museum. It will be led by the founder of the Mitki art group, Dmitry Shagin, a living symbol of the informal art of the northern capital of the 1980s.
Nevertheless, already today, visitors to the mArs art space will be able to see the preserved part of the beer stall, which Mitki, together with the musicians, painted in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Leningrad Rock Club, autographed records by the Kino, Aquarium and Zoo groups performers, engravings by artists Vasily Golubev and Vladimir Shinkarev, a portrait of Viktor Tsoi, which was painted by Viktor Tikhomirov, as well as a stone from the pavement of the Leningrad Youth House, where the 5th rock festival of the Leningrad Rock Club was held in 1987.
“What happened then, of course, cannot be returned – but these were happy years, and people need to feel how interesting and fun it was then, and what an amazing life was for the unofficial underground movement, which included both musicians and poets, and artists,” said Dmitry Shagin at the opening of the exhibition.
The idea of the future museum fits in well with the concept of the art group itself, which for many years has been professing an open, kind, naive and ingenuous outlook on life – a bright and colorful “urban folklore” that turns everything around into a cheerful literary game. Therefore, the organizers of the project call on all Petersburgers who have valuable artifacts related to the activities of Mitkov to bring them to the mArs art space. In the future, all of them will become part of the permanent exhibition, which will be located in the public space of the new Etalona residential project on Pesochnaya Embankment.
The exhibition will run for three weeks. The entrance is free.
Source: Rosbalt
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