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ART EXHIBITION AES+F: Last Riot 2
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- 14 September 2007, 8:00pm |
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The AES+F group works with the digital technology of modern image creation. Their activity best corresponds to Aristotle’s concept of techne, meaning craft, knowledge and art. They work with computer installations based on real photography, sculptures, video performances and computer animation. “In our latest works we create a space not photographically, but pictorially, a kind of post-post-photography. Our creations are not simply photographs; rather, different objects are shot at different times. Then all the images are united into a digital collage, a single picture, which is then ‘glazed’ as in painting. We call it digital painting. You could say that we use photographic and computer technology to reproduce the process of creating a classical picture.” The Last Riot 2 series “The virtual world generated by the real world of the past twentieth century, like an organism emerging from a test-tube, expands, leaving its borders and grasping new zones, absorbs its creators and mutates in something totally new. In this new world, real war looks like a virtual-reality game, and prison torture appears as the sadistic exercises of modern valkyries. Technologies and materials transform the artificial environment into a fantasy landscape of the new age. This paradise is also a mutated world where time is frozen, where all past epochs neighbour the future, where inhabitants lose their sex and become closer to angels – a world where the most severe, vague or erotic imagination is natural in the fake, unsteady 3D perspective. The heroes of this new age have only one identity – the identity of the rebel of the last riot. The last riot, where all are fighting against all and against themselves, where no difference exists any longer between victim and aggressor, male and female. This world celebrates the end of ideology, history and ethic.” About the artists Tatiana Arzamasova was born in 1955 and graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute (MARCHI) State Academy in 1978. She lives in Moscow and works within the framework of conceptual architecture. ‘Grand-Prix’ award winner of the joint competition by OISTT and UNESCO Theatre of Future (1979), she has participated in conceptual architecture exhibitions in London, Paris and Venice. Lev Evzovich was born in 1958 and graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute (MARCHI) State Academy in 1982. He was the prizewinner of the OISTT competition The Tour Theatre in Stockholm (1983). He has participated in conceptual architecture exhibitions in Milan, Frankfurt-am-Main and Paris. Lev lives and works in Moscow. Evgeny Svyatsky was born in 1957 and graduated from the Moscow University of Printing Arts (department of the book graphic arts) in 1980. He works in book and advertising design, poster and graphic arts. He has participated in international poster competitions and exhibitions of book illustration, design and graphic art, and has worked as creative director in publishing houses in Moscow (Otkryty Mir and Intersignal). Evgeny lives and works in Moscow and New York. Vladimir Fridkes was born in Moscow in 1956, and lives and works in Moscow as a fashion photographer. His work has been published in various magazines including: VOGUE, Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan and Sunday Times Style. He collaborates with the AES Group since 1995. Tatiana Arzamosova, Lev Evzovich and Evgeny Svyatsky formed the AES GROUP in 1987. Photographer Vladimir Fridkes joined the group in 1995 and subsequently the name of the group was changed to AES+F. The group focuses on photography, photo- and computer- based art and video art, along with the use of other traditional media such as drawing, painting and sculpture. The work of AES/AES+F has been shown at various biennials (including those of Venice, Lyon, Sydney, Gwangju, Tirana, Istanbul), and at numerous group and solo shows worldwide. Their work is included in the collections of the main Russian national museums (State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, Moscow House of Photography) and in museums and art centres in Europe such as the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, MEP in Paris, Les Abattoirs in Toulouse, FNAC in Paris, Centre d’Art Contemporain du Georges Pompidou in Paris.
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