German Titov

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The project is presented in three sections. First comes a reconstruction of the exhibition-action 'The Golden Hand and Other Objects', which followed the fate of eight pictures created by the artist as future exhibits and kept in an unguarded abandoned factory, then an investigation by a private detective and a mystical-symbolic conclusion to the story in the 'manifestation' of golden 'sacral' elements placed in the artworks and appearing on the walls of the exhibition space.

The second section is a series of works that could be characterised as an 'existential video'. This is the result of an attempt to synchronise the artist's view, directed within him with a video sequence that appears on the periphery of vision. The third part is an action video: charting the formation of a mysterious sculpture in the case of 'The Disappearance of White Circles'; an utopian attempt to save with the aid of disguise in the field of mass consciousness the projection of a musical instrument – a real model of a piano – in 'Camouflage'; and the creation of an abstract-expressionist painting with the aid of burning plastic and wind in 'Projection of a Burning Owl'