Picasso did not hear about us. Reflections on the sources and components of contemporary art

"For art, the feverish activity that the simple -minded connoisseur of contemporary art is inclined to attribute to art, seeing in this activity, in the bustle, the search for new knowledge, ”.

"Picasso did not hear about us" - this is a collection of chosen articles by the artist and critic Vladimir Salnikov about the culture of decades replacing each other - from the 1960s to the early 2000s. Each of them appears through the biased gaze of a contemporary, observer and participant of the described processes, the analysis of which is connected to autobiographical woven up.

The vast textual heritage of Salnikov covers many plots and topics: from excursions at different periods of art history, mainly the second half of the 20th century, to portraits of artists, both modern authors and "classics" of art. last century, reviews of exhibitions and experiments of understanding new phenomena, strategies and movements arising on the modern art scene