galza exhibition 2004
(c) kq/skrju

exhibition of galza group opened at 28 of may 2004 year in kalinigrad art gallery, it will last till the end of july. in nearest time foto and video materials could be found at official site of group www.galza.tk.

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the place - starched white hall about hundred square meters. we tried to gather all directions of ascii art in exposition - amiga style, ansi, new school. all works, presented at exhibition, were either released in art packs of galza, or will be published very soon. main part of works was printed at black and white a1 lists, and some more at great, impressive a0. bright colour spots are skillfuly interlaced in the strict grid of black and white sheets: mainly, these are works of shadow, plus merciless joint from the magicians of suprematism in ascii zmej_ and bug.

i avow - big rectangles of ascii looked very organic on a white walls, creating an impression, that it meant to be here from the very beginning - soar in weightlessness of snow covered white walls, strenghten by the strict geometry of concepts, to build not an exposition, but an atmosphere of archaic creation (however, bringing ultramodern filling).

in the first day, right during the opening address of gallery directorate, a ten-minute performance was started: flute, white coats, white axe and also white pies. action was arranged by the local artists. besides, all time during an exhibition a demo evenless by cyberpunks unity was working in a loop mode.

a few days before an opening there was a radio report about an exhibition, at the first day - two tv channels and journalists of a printed press. after - more tv and radio. (do not believe mass media. it lies. always find primary source.)

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but for me, the most interesting were next half and an hour: in another hall of a gallery i was going to show works of groups kosmoplovci, satori, cpu, inward, skrju. specially for an exhibition, last mentioned, did a new work - idiot. (unfortunately, inward didn't succeed to do their work in time.) apartments, where the demonstration took place, was intended for about 100 people, and fullfilled almost whole (i'am talking approximately, because it is impossible to be precise in a dark room). well disposed rows of comfortable blue coloured chairs, big screen (about 3x4 meters), crowd of people.

as it should be expected, it wasn't done without technical troubles: for about 20 minutes we tried to bring projector back to life, suddenly died out during the testing. then, it clarified, that presented hardware doesn't run a lot of kosmoplovci works. the show was started from the demos of corrosion. then - evenless and the source by cpu. then kosmoplovci. applause. fuckyouscene! by skrju. applause. unsuccessful attempt to run idiot. works by satori, zden, again kosmoplovci. applause. finally, after more than an hour idiot: six minutes triangles rotated on the screen and a very strange, mercilessly minimalistic noise was sounding . then a basic error appeared. silence for the ten seconds. i'am starting to clap my hands - audience supports me.

this moment was beautiful! certainly, applause on kosmoplovci surprised me, on fuckyouscene! even more, but when tired people, subtly felt the moment of humour, noise and zx-spectrum, after a long delay, nevertheless sincerely applausing - this is enchanting.

at least, after a week i understood, that i untolerably want to repeat all this, or do something other way, but - untolerably. i was frightened by this desire.

we completed with the announce of tomorrow's videoart, showing a small piece by zden. i was very dissapointed by the fact, that exactly those works of kosmoplovci, i wanted to show didn't run on presented hardware: hwr2, kolonija, d796, migracija - none of that was shown.

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i want to open gallery, i want to make a club, at least bar, i want to do a printed magazine, i want to organize stunning exhibitions and performances in unexpectable places, i want money, billions, i want to live forever.

with my friends, almost a dozen of people, on the roof of a twelve-storey house, we celebrated the opening of exhibition. champagne 'riga' for 77 rubles.