December 6, 2022 – January 3, 2023
The National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South,
New York, NY 10003
Mon–Sun: 10 AM – 5 PM

Since its inception in 2007, CYFEST’s main concerns have been to examine the dialogue between various visual languages and technology cultures, and thus to explore a way of commoning with both art professionals and scientific communities. CYFEST unites artists, curators, educators, engineers, programmers and media activists all over the world, and creates an inclusive platform for mapping, mediation, and documentation of new media art on different regional and international levels. CYFEST is one of the world’s few nomadic cultural events: in 2022, an interdisciplinary program of exhibitions, performances, events and education workshops took place in Yerevan, Armenia; Dartington, UK; and Mesa, Arizona, USA. Over the year, the festival had partnerships with HayArt Cultural Center, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art NPAK, Dartington Trust, Arizona State University, Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center, Kolodzei Art Foundation, and Leonardo ISAST. Read more »

Frants Gallery Space (New York) cordially invites you to attend the opening reception for

“MY DAD AND THE MOVIES”

An exhibition by Mikhail Belomlinsky

Friday,
February 13, 2015
6:30 – 10:00 PM

81 Wooster Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10012

RSVP +1 917 202 3782
or e-mail at rsvp@frantsgallery.com

MY DAD AND THE MOVIES

By Julia Belomlinskaya

I love the 1960s.
I was born in sixties.
To two “Sixtiers”.
Except that, at the time, my mom and dad didn’t know that they were the “Sixtiers”.
The generation of yet another Russian thaw, this time in the Soviet Russia.
The generation that will also be known as “Children of the 20th Congress of Communist Party”.
The Sixtiers will be emblazoned and disparaged.
They will be the subject of heated arguments.
Bulat Okudzhava, who sided with the Sixtiers, will write a poem
about the Sixtiers who should dethrone the Mustached Man (Stalin).
The poem ends with the Sixtiers placing their bet on the motherland
that will certainly forget about them in all the bustle,
but then again they have but one motherland…
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Frants Gallery Space (New York) cordially invites you to attend the opening reception for

“NATURE MORTE”

An exhibition by Petr Belyi and Petr Shvetsov

Friday,
September 12, 2014
6:30 – 10:00 PM

81 Wooster Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10012

RSVP 212 343 0104
or e-mail at anna@frantsgallery.com

NATURE MORTE

An ordinary glass of water, viewed as the art object, provides an infinite field of possible interpretations.  The longer one looks at it, the father away the applied meaning moves, giving place to the aesthetic value and the form.  Reflections, overlappings, intermixtures, penetrations — the illusory nature of material world creates a certain new household poetics.  Apartment exhibitions facilitate the penetration of household things into art in the best possible way.  The apartment space cannot be transformed into the exhibition space in its entirety; characteristics of its inhabitants show through crystal chandeliers, curtains or wall’s color.  In this case, the artist, thanks to his unlimited power, endows household objects with an absolute freedom of self-determination, which is unthinkable in the real life, by arranging almost metaphysical still lives:  a chandelier drifts onto the wall; a flower grows through the floor.  He creates a sense of the absurdity of goings-on, disturbing the customary state of affairs and balancing on the border of art-not-art, as if engendering a special type of object that exists simultaneously on several terrains.

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ST. PETERSBURG ARTS PROJECT (NY)
Cordially invites you to attend the opening reception for

ASTRONOMY OF FEELINGS

An exhibition by: Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov

Friday, February 28

6:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Frants Gallery Space
81 Wooster St. 4WM, New York, NY
Please RSVP at: rsvp@frantsgallery.com

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Astronomy of Feelings

BY: Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov

At first glance, it might appear that astronomy and feelings are concepts that do not intersect.
Astronomy – it is distances, galaxies, stars; this is a mystery. However, a human being with his feelings, fears and doubts is no less of a mystery. Observation has always been the basis of astronomy. Observation has always been the activity of an artist. A mirror is one of the instruments used by a human being for self-determination, and the very same mirror has now become the chief instrument of astronomers. A human being looks in the mirror and sees himself and outer space. Read more »

Frants Gallery Space will host Drawing the Third Dimension workshop exploring Max/MSP Jitter and OpenGL frameworks as tools for 3D video production on December 7.

Limited to 15 places this beginner’s workshop is organized by Ellen Pearlman and taught by Tommy Martinez. Ellen Pearlman is a New Media Artist, Writer, Curator, Critic, who gave a thought-provoking presentation on The New Aesthetic And The Digital Divide during CYBERFEST 2012. She is also a director and curator for the Volumetric Society, an eclectic group of innovators exploring the arts & sciences of a new world of natural user interfaces between body, brain, and spatially aware computing for the physical world. It is a platform for exchanging ideas and projects and getting exposed to the volumetric future the devices such as Kinect, Emotiv/MindWare, volumetric 3D displays, cameras and telematic interfaces.

The Volumetric Society workshops.
Images from http://www.meetup.com/volumetric/

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Frants Gallery Space will take part of Cutlog Art Fair, NY 2013
Artists: Elena Gubanova, Alexander Terebenin

May 8-13th

at 107 Suffolk Street, New York NY 10002

URL: www.cutlogny.org

St. Petersburg Arts Project (NY) cordially invites you to attend the opening reception for

"Up to Twelfth Generation"

By: Alexander Terebenin

Friday, March 1st

6:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Frants Gallery Space
81 Wooster St. 4WM, New York, NY
Please RSVP at: rsvp@frantsgallery.com

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Up to Twelfth Generation

Photography of Alexander Terebenin is much like archeology, and his strolls though the city are akin to expeditions – inconspicuous; with neither fuss nor pose. The extraction is carried out openly, without gold miners’ sweat, pioneers’ vehemence or scientists’ zeal. Roaming round and about, melancholically dwelling here and now, the artist retains the time that flowed here and then.

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Frants Gallery Space (New York) cordially invites you to attend the opening reception for

“Eye of the Beholder”

A selection of works by Serge Hollerbach

Friday,
October 26th, 2012
6:30 – 10:00 PM

RSVP 212 343 0104
or e-mail at anna@frantsgallery.com

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“I am I and my circumstance”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Meditations on Quixote
1914

On the cover of the collected essays by Sergey Lvovich Hollerbach “Notes of an Artist”(1), there is one of his drawings included in the exhibition.  The depicted person looks a little bit like the author, but Sergey Lvovich maintains that the drawing was not conceived as a self-portrait, even though one could not deny the resemblance of certain traits.  This, so to speak, is a generalized image of an artist.  He is depicted in profile with a sketchbook and a pen in hand, and he seems unaware that he is caught by a beholder, being fully engaged in his work.

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ST. PETERSBURG ARTS PROJECT (NY)
Invites you to attend
the opening reception for
“DRAWINGS TO DOVLATOV”
By: ALEXANDER FLORENSKY

Friday, April 20th 6:30PM-10:00PM
81 Wooster St. 4th Floor. New York, NY
rsvp@frantsgallery.com

With photography by:
Nina Alovert, Leonid Lubianitsky, Mark Sherman, Natasha Sharymova

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In collaboration with The Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund

Special thanks to Natasha Sharymova, Elena Dovlatova,
Ksana Blank and New York Plus Plus

Writer Sergey Dovlatov (1941-1990) stands out in Russian literature for having placed his works on the border between fierce testimony and playful exaggerations about life.  His independent way of thinking was fresh and reviving for many people during the Soviet times and it still is today.  In 1979, after being expelled from the Union of Soviet Journalists and conscripted to military service, Dovlatov left Russia and moved to New York where he was free to publish his first two novels Kompromis (“The Compromise”) and Zapovednik (“The Nature Reserve”).

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