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Yuri Leiderman - Samizdat
Galerie Traversée

Türkenstraße 11, Munich
Bavaria, Germany

Region : Bavaria
Event Classification : Exhibition
Event From : 01/21/2010
Event To : 02/28/2010
 
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Ice cracking – Yuri Leiderman’s Kür The challenge for the spectator, the one writing as it were, will begin not later than after having noticed Yuri Leiderman’s statement on his art and on art in general: “From my point of view anyone can understand my art because there’s no-thing in it and ‘understanding’ doesn’t fit at all with art. We’d better off talking about perception and its therapy. Our field of vision is packed with contexts, ideologies, versions thrown down to us from on high; art is trying to direct us towards emptiness and spontaneity.“ What can one say then about the art of Leiderman? The interpreter (re)constructing mean- ing, someone, willing to understand what has been “expressed“ – by tradition art is meant to be expressive - falls according to Leiderman into the trap of meaning, respectively participating in its pure construction. In hermeneutics the understanding becomes, in differentiation of the explaining of the natural sciences, a methodology of the humanities. Under existentialist premises the understanding becomes exegesis of being revealing meaning. What if this meaning, at least beyond ideologies, does not exist at all? In 1990 Leiderman left the artist group Medical Hermeneutics, which he had cofounded with Sergei Anufriev and Pavel Pepperstein in 1987. Regarding the art of Yuri Leiderman, still today, the group’s name can be read as a program ironically intending to cure the hermeneutics of itself. Ludwig Wittgenstein’s “showing the fly the way out of the flybottle“, in other words: to free philosophy from its problems with the aid of logopedia, comes to mind. If Leiderman wanted understanding to be substituted by the therapy of perception, one is reminded yet again of Wittgenstein insisting upon his theory of language games: don’t think, look. Like Wittgenstein, Leiderman rejects the naive realism of terms supposing that the name will carry the meaning. Just think of Leiderman’s work “Giving Names to Kefir Grains“. Caught in an excessive act of name-giving, Leiderman names the Kefir cultures, which he had incubated the same day, after individuals that have died the same day in Jerusalem, the place where he realized the work. The second part of the names results from abstracta, words ending with “tion“ and put in alphabetical order. The absurd name-giving plays on the system of scientific classification and simultaenously produces a poetical surplus in allusion to death and life continuing. Leiderman is counted among the Moscow Conceptualists. What does this mean? Leiderman was born in Odessa; he then went to Moscow, where he finished his studies of chemistry; already in Odessa he had participated in art exhibitions; Leiderman states Andrei Monastyrski, founder of the group Collective Actions, his mentor; today Leiderman lives in Berlin and Moscow, collaborating amongst other things with Monastyrksi and Vadim Zakharov in the Corbusier Group. What does Moscow Conceptualist mean? It is a construction similar to Wiener Schnitzel or Nürnberger Bratwurst (meat dishes; culinary specialties) raising the question, whether the cities’ names refer to the place of origin of the dish or to its recipe. In the case of the Nürnberger Bratwurst the place of origin was accentuated following commercial interests. Moscow Conceptualism, when considered as a recipe, can it be produced also in Munich? Or is provenance in the focus? What does provenance say about the art? Of Russian artists, usually, the Western art world expects to produce and show Russian art. Leiderman is aware of this. In his latest show “Die Ehre hüt von Jugend auf”, he had three women dressed up in folklore costumes reading aloud a Pushkin novel in Russian. The Essen piece is part of his concept of “geopoetics”, by which he accordingly undermines the construction of national identity as hyper-affirmation. Here, as he often does and especially also in his Munich exhibition, Leiderman builds a kind of metastructure, in which he in
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