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Kostrits Margarita
Marguerite Kostriz belongs to the contemporary St Petersburg school of art critics that represents art studies and art proper as important components of the contemporary artistic process. She established herself as an expert in the art of the 20th century at the beginning of the 80s, the time of great changes in St Petersburg culture and the time of art’s conceptualization of its history and art proper. She is engaged in collecting works for the collection of the State Russian Museum. These are very specific collections which represent interesting local phenomena of the Russian and, particularly, of the St Petersburg art: sculpture that is not confined to its plasticity and that is obtaining qualities of spatial installation, or, on the contrary, sculpture whose plastic features may be the last relics preserved in the Petersburg school; the art-deco style, completely missed by the Soviet art critics, that reveals itself in textile and porcelain plastics; contemporary design which, in the classic sense, is not typical for the Russian art, and represents works of the new school. As a curator and a person in charge of the display, she is keen on creating an image of art, on the bringing together of different types of works of different periods, on representing styles and expositional problems related to it. At present she is working on the collection of “The Ludwig Museum at the Russian Museum”, different versions of whose expositions represent a specific merging of the whole historical architectural space and the space of contemporary art. Her artistic aspirations are clearly reflected in her practical work of writing articles and in what constitutes the specifics of interesting, though self-orientated, St Petersburg’s school of art critics.
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