On May 16, 2019, POP UP MUSEUM (17, Butlerov St., Oskva, NEO GEO Business Center) opens the Kirill and Marina Rakhmatullin exhibition “Go Les Omm”, which will last until the end of the year in the museum. The intriguing title of the exhibition encompasses the transformation of the well-known marginal phrase “go through the forest” into the urge to move to the sacred, where “Homme” at the end is the sound of power, the world's most famous mantra.

In many cultures, the forest is a generalized symbol of the natural world, a metaphor of life and danger, above all the dangers of various metamorphoses and death. Any metaphysical road either begins in the forest, or sooner or later leads there, so that the hero can comprehend what is happening to him, overcome personal chaos, and go out into the world by another born again, or, on the contrary, get lost and become part of the landscape. In their project, sculptors consider nature and man as accomplices of a single action, carnival and tragic, reviving and slaying. Each series, as well as separate works, is devoted to archetypical images that reveal the sphere of the border between the visible world of physical phenomena and the invisible sphere of the metaphysical.


In the series “Keepers of the Lakes” and “Spirits of the Forest”, the authors turn to personalized forces of nature, in which iconic features are combined with primitive, totem ones. However, the elements permeate not only natural, but also urban locations, and here the ironic series “Spirits of central heating” comes into its own, in which the images of the spirits turn out to be mechanically welded to the batteries. We should not forget that man is a natural being, and everything that his intellect produces, no matter how “artificial” it seems, is also inevitably a part of it and “spiritualized”.


However, at the same time nature creates fear in us. Fear of natural metamorphosis and change makes people lock themselves in, fencing themselves off from the world behind the glass of their windows, “pink” or “dark” glasses, screens of smartphones and laptops. This phenomenon is comprehended by the authors in the “Bottles” series, where human heads are imprisoned in glass “prisons” whose name is illusions. An attempt to break through this obstacle is the work of the Glazier, in which, however, duality is also present: the observer’s face rests on the glass, trying to overcome it, but at the same time its features seem to blur and disappear into the insidious surface.

Visitors waiting for immersion in the world of myths and archetypical images. In an era when affections and painful, often fruitless doubts overcome consciousness, the authors urge the viewer to get off the ground in front of the “glasses” separating a person from the outside world and go back to his own world, to the world of natural forms and metaphysics to see not as a separate being, but as part of the universe - in other words, to go Les Homme.

The exhibition ends on December 31, 2019.


Important! Visitor registration for the exhibition is tentatively held by phone +7 985 774 29 36. The exhibition is open daily from 12.00 to 20.00.


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Kirill Rakhmatullin - Russian sculptor, artist, member of the Moscow Union of Artists. In 2009, he graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov under the guidance of Professor A. I. Rukavishnikov. Marina Rakhmatullina - Russian sculptor, wood carver. She graduated from Moscow State Agricultural Institute named after V. I. Surikov in 2010. Permanent participants of national and international art exhibitions.


The works of artists are in the collections of the State Darwin Museum, POP UP MUSEUM, as well as in private collections.