Pitter-Patter

source: nccaru
The artists work in various genres of contemporary art: video art, experimental films, photography, installation, opera staging. Their works were presented at the 51st Venice Biennale, Kunstfilm Biennale (Museum Ludwig, Cologne;Istambul Modern Museum, Istambul; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin), Hors Pistes (Centre Pompidou, Paris), Biennial of Moving Images (Saint-Gervais, Geneva), Montevideo Biennial (Banco Republica, Montevideo), Viper (Kunsthalle Basel, museum fuer Gegenwartskunst Basel,Basel), WRO media art biennale (Ballestrem Palace,Wroslaw), Fenetre sur le court metrage contemporain (Cinematheque Francaise, Paris), Rencontres Internationales (Palais de Tokyo, Paris), events of Art Fair (Vienna, Kiev etc.), Novas Vanguardas Russas” os videos de PROVMYZA (Palacio das Artas, Belo Horizonte,Brazil), A(rt)R(ussia)T(oday)-index (The Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga); Moscow Biennale for contemporary arts (Garage museum, CDH, Moscow), International Video Art Biennial “VideoZone-4” (Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv); ”Post-vision” (Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris), ”The Power of Water” ( Benois Wing, The russian Museum, Saint Petersburg), The young, aggressive (Musashino art Museum, Tokyo), “The voice and the chorus” ( Museum De Hallen Haarlem, The Netherlands), 21 Russia (Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev) and other notable events.

Over twenty films of the art group participated in international festivals and were awarded with: Tiger Award for Short Film (38th International Film Festival Rotterdam), Gran Premio for the Best Competing Film (25th Asolo International Art Film Festival), Best Experimental Film (15th Chilean International Short Film Festival).

In 2010 the film “Inspiration” was a part of “Orizzonti” program at the 67th Venice International Film Festival .
The film “Eternity” was invited in the Cinema XXI Competition at the 7th Rome Film Festival and was Winner of the Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award 2013 in Best Media Project nomination (video art, film, video installation).
“Three String Quartets For One Video” as the joint project PROVMYZA art group with composers (A. Nadzharov, G.Dorohov and A.Shmurak) was a Grand Prix winner of the Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Awards.
Galina Myznikova and Sergey Provorov as Stage Director and Set Designer of opera “Marevo” was Winner of INNOVATION Prize 2012 of the 8th All-Russian Competition in Contemporary Visual Art.
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source: arts-museumru
In their ”Pitter-Patter” video Galina Myznikova and Sergey Provorov are focused on a person as an object which requires a common empathy and contemplation (the work is based on the famous photograph by a 19th century English photographer Henry Peach Robinson). We witness the transition from death to life, but the process of living does not come to an end. It takes the shape of the water, which slowly envelopes the bed, running “pitter-patter”.