Olga Tatarintseva’s exhibition is the first solo show of the artist in the pop/off/art Gallery. Olga truly may be considered one of the leading masters working in the tradition of minimalist art. Her works are held throughout the world in the collections of the large contemporary art museums and private collections. The uniqueness of her position in the Moscow art scene is based on the fact that the main material with which the artist works – ceramics – is not accepted as having a place in the local context of contemporary art. Tatarintseva destroys stereotypes by the very fact that she has been active for many years. Her objects, extremely simple in form, but multidimensional in meaning and unusually complex in execution (the creation of some of them takes up to a year), are in dialogue with the tradition of world Art, referring to Modernism – from the Russian Avant-garde to the latest Post Minimalist sculpture, from the “Prouns” of El Lisitsky to the “shelves” of Donald Judd and the polychromatic forms of Anish Kapur.

In the work which makes the centre of the exposition, Olga, in accordance with the title of the exhibition, explores the issues of the local and the infinite, of the correlation of the small part, segment of the work with the idea of wholeness and completeness. The ceramic object, in its turn, interacts with the pictures from the cycle “Haystacks” (2006 – 2008), in which similar issues are reflected in the format of easel paintings. On the whole Tatarintseva’s exhibition is in keeping with the Gallery’s series of exhibitions at the end of 2008, in which the analysis of formal structures takes place (“Simple Form” A. Krasulin, “Adoration” A. Osmolovsky). This visual stratum, detached from the media hustle and bustle, holds extreme importance for the normal, integrated with the international, art process on Russian soil.