EVERYTHING AND NOTHING
2014-08-04The perception of the fourth dimension explored by the exhibition Everything and Nothing is not transcendental, analogue-spatial or temporal dimension, but is rather determined by current social, political and cultural dimensions and uses the avant-garde tradition as a meta-language which progresses from everything to nothing, which equals everything by purifying artistic activity until it becomes a clear, engaged statement, still determined by the restrictive parameters of our actions. Although it is unlikely real change will occur, the fact that we can engage with the idea brings us closer.
When Ilya Kabakov created The Man Who Flew into Space from his Apartment (1988), he was not concerned with utopia. Individual re-appropriation freed the cosmic dream from being closed within the system and re-established its primary essence – an essence which is not fixed, has no definite form and is not institutionalised, and whose genuineness can only be collective.
Based on these parameters, the exhibition presents a collective urge for change, or a possibility of change, in all its vitality, independent of image transfer and original context, which goes beyond imitation and appropriation.
Opposite – Timofey Radya, Figure #1: Stability, 2012
Exhibition runs through to September 7th, 2014
Galerija ŠKUC
Stari trg 21
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
