{"id":103,"title":"Dusty Phrases / Пыльные фразы ","dimensions":"","date_begin":"2003-01-01","material":"dust","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":58,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":7,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003eThe work consist of 21 slogans to be written in dust on the wall\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe work was previously known under the title \u003cem\u003eSLOGANS\u003c/em\u003e. It was listed as \u0026#39;\u003cem\u003eSlogans\u003c/em\u003e\u0026#39; on the purchase agreement, drawn up and issued by the museum; however, the artist himself consistently uses \u0026#39;\u003cem\u003eDusty Phrases\u003c/em\u003e\u0026#39; as the title in interviews, the title Пыльные фразы (\u0026#39;Dusty Phrases\u0026#39;) is also used by the Russian-speaking media which referred to M HKA\u0026#39;s exhibition in 2003. The confusion might have come from the fact, that Osmolovsky has contributed two texts to the catalogue of Horizons of Reality (2003), one of the texts was titled SLOGANS.\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nThe \u003ca href=\"http://osmopolis.ru/dust/gallery/a_35\"\u003eartist explains \u003c/a\u003e(translated from RU):\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;In 2003, when I participated in a large exhibition of Russian art at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp (curated by Bart de Baere, V. Misiano), the Belgian curator suggested making a work that, on the one hand, was related to my texts (I was writing a theoretical text for the catalogue) and, on the other hand, could be exhibited simultaneously in several places in the exhibition rooms. Focusing on the idea of\u0026nbsp; \u0026#39;non-spectacularity\u0026#39; at that time, I was most concerned with creating a sense of the accidental emergence of art. This is why ordinary dust was chosen as the material. Therefore, the aphorisms themselves were dusted at the bottom of the walls, closest to the floor as if they \u0026ldquo;appeared\u0026rdquo; due to the visitors\u0026#39; walking back and forth. That was the idea.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nThe new technique has emphasized the original idea of randomness, unintentionality. Sprayed dust on the walls is applied unevenly, causing the effect of blurred edges and disappearing letters.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nBart de Baere, curator and director of M HKA, was so pleased with the work that he decided to buy it. However, since the work does not have its own material medium, they decided to buy the technology itself \u0026mdash; the right to dust the walls of the museum with the famous series of my aphorisms.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","date_end":"2003-01-01","reference":"M00032","stream_count_app":87,"permalink":"slogans","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/085/811/medium_500/2021_EURAZIE___photo_M_HKAclinckx__29.jpg?1661259659","cached_actor_names":"Anatoly Osmolovsky","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Installation","nl":"Installatie","fr":"Installation"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/085/811/large/2021_EURAZIE___photo_M_HKAclinckx__29.jpg?1661259659","poster_credits":"© Anatoly Osmolovsky. Photo: Wim Van Eesbeek","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnatoly Osmolovsky\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eDusty Phrases\u003c/em\u003e consists of 21 slogans\u0026nbsp;\u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp; critical or exclamatory statements made from dust that was taken from vacuum cleaner bags, which he used to \u0026lsquo;write\u0026rsquo; on the wall using a set of cut-out letters and glue. The slogans, oddly, are installed at ankle\u0026rsquo;s height, and snake around the walls of the museum to form a series of polemical utterances, varying from the outright political to more speculative reflections on the place of art and the position of the artist in contemporary society:\u003cem\u003e \u0026ldquo;each intellectual participates in the revolting pursuit of prestige and cannot but feel pangs of conscience\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e;\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;terror is not representative (real terrorists who got into conflict with the law always work in illegality; for perfectly understandable reasons, they hide their faces)\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e.\u0026nbsp;Two other examples suggest that \u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;Chaos and lack of motivation could become the basis of a new moral position\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e, and that \u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;the world of today has arrived at a stage of the overproduction of everything: ideas, fashions, murders, hunger, consumption, products, sex, etc.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDe reeks \u003cem\u003eDusty Phrases\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003evan Osmolovsky bestaat uit 21 kritische slagzinnen die met lijm en lettersjablonen op de muur worden gespoten en vervolgens met stof (in dit concrete geval uit stofzuigerzakken gewonnen) zichtbaar worden gemaakt. De leuzes bevinden zich paradoxaal genoeg op enkelhoogte, en volgen het kronkelende pad van de museummuren: ze vari\u0026euml;ren van polemisch politiek tot meer speculatieve reflecties over de positie van de kunst en de kunstenaar in de maatschappij. \u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;Terreur is niet representatief (echte terroristen, die in conflict geraakt zijn met de staatswetten, werken altijd in de illegaliteit; zij verbergen om volledig begrijpelijke redenen hun gezicht). De staat definieert terreur als de grens van de socialiteit en verdringt en onderdrukt ze.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;Twee andere voorbeelden luiden als volgt: \u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;Chaos en gebrek aan motivering kunnen de basis worden van een nieuwe morele positie.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;En: \u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;De wereld van vandaag is in een stadium gekomen van overproductie van alles: idee\u0026euml;n, modes, moorden, honger, consumptieproducten, seks, enz.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":59,"name":"Anatoly Osmolovsky","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}