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ARTEXT : La Biennale di Venezia
EMPTY ZONES
" Given that Monastyrski's work is essentially tenuous and infused with the Buddhist spirit from which he draws his ispiration, his body of work would have remained relatively unknown if it had not been for its profound influence-partially thanks to its documentation-on the following generation of Russian artist. But what's more important than its historical or commemorative value is its continuing subversive influence, its opposition to the fetishization, in any form, of the art object and event and the artist as well. " N.A. The Collective Actions group was founded by Monastyrski in 1976 and continues its work to this day. Boris Groys, the exhibition’s curator, considers that “it was the first example in Russia of the kind of art that takes the viewer out of his usual passive condition and offers him an active role in creating an artistic event.” The aesthetic spatiotemporal events that make up CA’s ‘actions’ have been developed both in huge rural spaces (fields, forests, rivers and so on) and in the texts that introduce the actions, accompany them, and comment on the events of an action. However, some actions have also been held in the city and in closed spaces when the process of developing a contemporary aesthetic language has called for it. CA has performed 125 actions and compiled 10 volumes (work on the 11th is in progress) of the Trips out of Town books. The Russian Pavilion will host an attempt to view CA’s actions retrospectively as life in art. The exhibition will show art as the production of oneself rather than of objects (paintings, sculptures, installations). Empty Zones is the concept of life as a unique kind of artwork. And this life in art will be demonstrated through using the metaphors created for the Russian Pavilion space
Curatore : Boris Groys
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