MOSCOW.- Moscow Museum of Modern Art, School of Contemporary Art Free Workshops and the Triumph Gallery present the Out of Range exhibition by the CrocodilePOWER art group (Pyotr Goloshchapov, Oksana Simatova) as part of the Young Lions project. The exhibition contains paintings and sculptures.

The artists continue to explore the modern reality and man’s place in it. They refer to the topic of the artificial environment, which can change and deform the basic idea of the man and his historical identity. The virtual reality provides instant access to information in the global sense, as well as it is a space of infinite self-presentation. The authors point out that the result of irreversible changes is the appearance of new digital mythology, which increasingly fills the consciousness of the modern man.

The central plot of the artworks is a forest, endowed with sacred and mystical meanings. It is not only an area free of cell towers and fiber optic cables, but also a place of refuge and the similarity of purgatory of the modern man. The paintings narrate about strange signs and marks of unknown origin on trees, which the artists have accidentally discovered near their home.

“The Crocodile POWER art group invites us to emerge from the state of network consciousness, to become disconnected and to find ourselves in the forest of our own pristine, primordial chaos, to face our deep feelings, fears and loneliness. The artists invite us to lie down on the psychoanalyst’s couch. The difference is that it is neither about the treatment, nor about the possible consequences, nor about the fact that it can be a one-way trip”, says Vladimir Potapov, the exhibition curator.

The CrocodilePOWER art group is a duo of artists Pyotr Goloshchapov and Oksana Simatova. Pyotr Goloshchapov was born in 1982 in Moscow. In 2005, he graduated from the Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts. He was a grant winner of the Ministry of Culture of the RF in 2005, 2008 and 2012. Oksana Simatova was born in 1979 in Krasnoznamensk, Moscow Oblast. In 2002, she graduated with honors from the Moscow State Academic Art College of memory of 1905 year and from the Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts in 2008. She was a grant winner of the Ministry of Culture of the RF in 20002002. In 2011, the artists organized the Crocodile POWER art group.