Aesthetics VS Information. №2: Special Project of the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
Tsereteli Art Gallery hosts a Special Project of the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art entitled Aesthetics VS Information. №2. It has been organized by the Center for Culture Communications in Klaipeda (Lithuania) under the auspices of the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Russian Federation and the Russian Academy of Arts.
The project has united artists from three Baltic countries – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The exhibition in Tsereteli Art Gallery is an attempt to respond to urgent problems of the actual art practice, it continues the discussion opened in the fall of 2010 at the Center for Culture Communications in Klaipeda. Dedicated to the problems of communication, it questions whether an artist can make his message as clear to a viewer by means of aesthetic categories as through “pure” information.
The project initiated in Lithuania a year ago has caused a clash between various art trends in the contemporary art in Russia - between authors committed to the ‘pure aesthetics” and advocates of information. The curator Ignas Kazakyavichus has given the Baltic answer in the above dialogue. The second version of the Project emphasizes, that today’s art is very often transformed into an advertising object “curated” by a popular business. The art nowadays rapidly reacts to the most important events, but often balances on the verge of kitsch or information – “pure documental nature”. The participants of the Project are confident, that the true art remains a unique method of self-knowledge.
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