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The Feast of Trimalchio. Allegory #3 (Triumph of Africa) (2010). Courtesy Galerie Triumph, Moscou. Photo: Nicolas Brasseur, Le Printemps de Septembre 2012
The Feast of Trimalchio, panorama #1 (2010). Courtesy Gallery Triumph, Moscou. Photo: Nicolas Brasseur, Le Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse 2012.
The Feast of Trimalchio. photographies, digital collages (2010). Courtesy of AES+F and Gallery Triumph, Moscou. Photo : Nicolas Brasseur, Le Printemps de Septembre 2012.
Tatiana Arzamasova
Born in 1955, she lives and works in Moscow.
Lev Evzovich
Born in 1958, he lives and works in Moscow.
Evgeny Svyatsky
Born in 1957, he lives and works in Moscow.
Vladimir Fridkes
Born in 1956, he lives and works in Moscow.
This quartet of four Moscow personalities from the world of architecture was formed in 1987. In 1995, it became a quartet with the arrival of Vladimir Fridkes, a fashion photographer. The collective creates works using a variety of media: photos, often reworked on the computer, videos and sometimes drawings, paintings and sculptures. Their work has been widely exhibited, notably in biennials around the world such as those in Venice, Lyon, Sydney, Moscow, Istanbul and Seoul.
A distanced aesthetic, likely to perplex the viewer, is found in the photographic ensemble presented in Toulouse. It took three years of work to create The Feast of Trimalchio, a modern transposition of an episode from the Satiricon by the Latin poet Petronius. Fascinated by the orgiastic feasts organised by Trimalcion, an enriched slave who was the first 'parvenu' in history, the artist collective intends to pay tribute to 'the imagination of Petronius, whose name has become synonymous with wealth and luxury, gluttony and unbridled pleasure that contrast with the brevity of existence. We looked for an analogy with the Third Millennium. "A futuristic paradise that also resembles a sanitized hell...