March 24, 1995
city of Kiev, the artist's studio

"The cultural consensus" / action
(dedicated to memory of O. Golosiya)
I. Konovalov, A. Varvarov

Igor Konovalov action and Anatoly Varvarov - the offer is sincere of to feel a harmonicity of attitudes(relations) of the artist and the spectator, art and a reality. The sense "the Cultural consensus" consist in creation of an atmosphere of friendly dialogue, intrigue aesthetically and carried out quite really. Under the version of authors. The consent on the basis of mutual sympathy should become the sanction of "patients" of questions of the modern art remove aggression a pressure. Similar orientation to pure(clean) and kind feelings not too frequently meets among representative practice (more habitually shock influence of "onbscene language").
Finding of a consensus occurred in conditions of art workshop. (by author's definition " communications of manufacture with art") Varvarov and Konovalov already showed a technique of an interlacing of spaces of art and real life in the previous action(share) "Rehearsal". In this case exposition gesture had more directly character, almost on a side "planned" and spontaneous. In effect, authors only gave an occasion for followed event. And spectators had an opportunity to become the accomplices who have gathered around of a bowl with a wine. This bowl - born " for frameworks" an element of "Trinity" of Andrey Rubleva reproduced on one workshop from walls in variant increased and taken in a negative. In it it is not necessary to search illusion on the medieval prototype. The image turns in arhitips a deciphered mark which sense of presence to be - uniting motive of all exposition.
As a whole Varvarov and Konovalovit was possible to create a situation of organic interaction where in free and easygoing dialogue and was "the cultural consensus" achieves.

Xenia Militinskaja