This exhibition was driven by some very common reasons. It's not clear why, but Moscow contemporary art, so sympathetic to fresh'n'cool concepts, have really lost sight of the notorious gender issue?

So, the first XL reason to work on the present project was the will to capture this virgin theme. The second reason could be best described as provocative, as far as we search for a dialogue. It happened so that pro-gender tendencies are traditional in the art of St. Petersburg. More than that, they are cultivated there, though in the forms of extreme aestheticism. One might be bewitched and bent for latent homosexual poetics of the leading Petersburg authors, but, alas, they're too far away from Moscow. Neither discoursive, nor performance branches of Moscow art have any notion of the elegance and specific radicalism of their counterparts.

My Magazine For Few by Gennady Ustiyuan seems to fill this annoying gap. The exhibition is ideal as for the gallery's dream; at last here's the author whose distinct conception allows to designate the new theme at Moscow art scene; and the conception, in its turn, opens up prospects of hypothetical dialogue with the high gender of Petersburg. This dialogue is rather conditional, as for the theme taken; although Ustiyuan's expressed "documentary" could hardly be compared with Timur Novikov's aesthetics or Georgy Guryanov's neo- Academism.

My Magazine For Few distinctly features Moscow mentality: delicate theme presented delicately at the same time enjoys enough toughness and radicalism, as well as fits well into the latest anti-discoursive trend of Moscow art. The latter means incorporating discourse as a part of metaphor into the installation's metaphysical body. Thus our exhibition is a short and rigid formula which has enough inner space to include literature, a 'document', an original gesture and personal courage, in the Moscow's pre-programmed heterosexual art body.