{"id":524,"date":"2010-05-24T15:54:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T15:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phuturama.de\/?p=524"},"modified":"2011-06-08T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T18:04:00","slug":"czarnobyl-mutation-at-atm-gallery-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.phuturama.de\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"“Czarnobyl Mutation” at ATM Gallery, Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Flyer of Czarnobyl's "Mutation" exhibition at ATM Gallery, Berlin.<\/p><\/div>\n

Still on exhibition at ATM Gallery <\/strong>[1]<\/a> till May 29, 2010 you can get a glimpse of a genuine East European phenomenon of ‘phuturismatic’ aesthetics that is deeply embossed by the 1986 catastrophic nuclear trauma of Chernobyl \u2013 even avant la lettre<\/em>. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Polish urban artist Czarnobyl [2]<\/a> work is rooted in a tradition which were broadly recognised by Western audiences through Andrei Tarkovsky’s famous 1979 movie masterpiece Stalker <\/em>[3]<\/a> which prophetically visualised the idea of a kind of Pre-Chernobyl forbidden Zone<\/em> were an uncanny entity is establishing paranormal influence upon the chosen few who dare to break the boundaries and eventually reach the Room<\/em> in the very heart of the prohibited area.<\/p>\n

Although loosely based upon Roadside Picnic<\/em> [4]<\/a>\u2013 a short story of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky \u2013\u00a0which has a more generic science fiction approach to its matter, Tarkovsky’s movie has a strong dystopian attitude and in its contemporary reception it has been sometimes read then as a reference to the aftermath of the so called Tunguska Event [5]<\/a> or other strictly classified, but unmistakeably man-made nuclear incidents in Soviet history before the Chernobyl hellfire break lose.<\/p>\n

The later successful ego-shooter game series\u00a0S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl<\/em> [6]<\/a> borrowed key elements from both \u2013 the Strugatsky\u00a0novel and the Tarkovsky movie and embossed positively a genuine ‘post-soviet’ style of game design and futurist envision which could be described by categories like heavily dark and grey dyed contrasts and a generally ‘wrecked’ and dystopian look and feel.<\/p>\n

More interesting background information to this whole complex can be read at BLDGBLOG’s post “Ghosts of the Future: Borrowing Architecture from the Zone of Alienation”\u00a0[7]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The artwork of polish born artist Czarnobyl fully fit into this scheme, but it seems he knows to over-exaggerate it to a degree where something unique is coming into play.<\/p>\n

[1] Official ATM gallery web site
\n<\/a>[2] Czarnobyl’s MySpace portfolio
\n<\/a>[3] Wikipedia on Stalker<\/em><\/a>
\n[4] Wikipedia on Roadside Picnic<\/em>
\n<\/a>[5] Wikipedia on the Tunguska Event<\/a>
\n[6] Wikipedia on S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
\n<\/a>[7] “Ghosts of the Future: Borrowing Architecture from the Zone of Alienation” by BLDGBLOG<\/a><\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong><\/em> Today, May 25, 2010, 20:15 Franco-German high-brow culture TV channel ARTE brings the documentary Tschernobyl \u2013 Die Natur kehrt zur\u00fcck<\/em><\/strong> (Chernobyl \u2013 Nature’s Turnig Back) (France, 2010, 90 mn)\u00a0by Luc Riolon who focus on scientific observations from the Zone<\/em> around the notorious havarist reactor cell. Reruns of this programme are scheduled for May 27, 2010 at 10:40 and June\u00a015, 2010 at 01:05 \u2013 and don’t forget to use the web-based offer of a temporary archive service named <\/strong>ARTE+7<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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