Alexander Kutovoi - Bulky Biceps Trying To Fly
2 September 2021 - 2 October 2021
2 September 2021 - 2 October 2021
Bulky Biceps Trying To Fly is the first Alexander Kutovoy’s personal project since 2018. The exhibition became the presentation of the new brand Bulky Biceps. First time the project was shown at the Cosmoscow art fair in 2020.
At the Lazy Mike gallery booth, in a space reminiscent of a concept store or a hollowed-out laboratory, Alexander Kutovoy presented a sculpture of Pegasus, which was actually a gymnastic horse and the heads of the ancient characters Aphrodite and Hypnos, which turned into weights for power exercises. What appears in our minds by default as the "Art world’s gold fund" has acquired an extremely concrete function and has fit into modern mass trends of maintaining health, enthusiasm for sports and attention to one's own body. During the year, this "environmental factor" led to the development of the Bulky Biceps Trying To Fly project: as if testing the theory of "universal digestibility" Kutovoy expanded the "line" of ancient sculptures-simulators - Nika, Laocoon appeared, which in the form of spectacular and functional objects easily enter, for example, the territory of the so-called "matte gloss" - a new type of journal periodicals, reminiscent of a catalog of modern art in the quality of texts and visual solutions.
The exposition consists of 8 sculptures, each of them is a full-fledged sports projectile. A full-fledged magazine is being published especially for the project, in the filming for it sculptures become part of the new fashion code, responsible for a progressive lifestyle. In the same way, a full-fledged video game grows from individual fragments of sculptures and their relationships - the Bulky Biceps Trying To Fly project is introduced into the game environment, becomes part of it and operates on her laws. The seeming analogy with the "Trojan horse" (not only antic, but also relevant, digital) is not quite accurate, because the modern environment is omnivorous, and the resistance to it and all the heroics of this gesture are almost cartoonish.