Exhibition Art for Art Automatic translate

From October 20 to 28, 20018, at the Central House of Artists, within the framework of the 44th Russian Antique Salon, a presentation of the new creative association of anonymous artists Art for Art will be held, demonstrating an alternative to the traditional, salon paradigm of the existence of fine art in the modern world. It will be presented by Gallery Cart Art Foundation, which is both an art gallery and a philanthropic foundation, founded not only for collecting and exhibiting art objects, but also, which is especially interesting, for their creation. The gallery is a revolutionary approach to collecting and promoting contemporary visual art on the market. The Gallery Cart Art Foundation sees its mission in spreading an ideologically new paradigm of artistic creation, which has formed as a protest against the universally accepted model of work of galleries and other art-related institutions. Determined by market relations, in which artistic activity is also embedded, this model operates with such patterns as style, age (paintings and artist), provenance, which determine the fate of the work. She is also influenced by the opinions of critics and experts who set fashion trends. Creative freedom is trapped in these patterns, as in a vice, and the true value of art is replaced by market value. The Art for Art movement brought together artists who want to work outside this system, and the anonymity of the authors of the works, when all artists act under pseudonyms, was the first gesture in this direction. Thus, the focus of attention is placed on the product of their work, freed from any correlations with the personality of the author. This frees the artist from conventions, gives unlimited freedom for creativity, experimentation, fantasy, without regard to real circumstances, biography, personal connections, past merits, etc. The object of art acts as an absolute given, open for free perception by the audience outside of the historical and biographical context, as a “thing in itself”, whose existence depends on the artistic will of the viewer and the environment - including the material - in which he places the object of art. The gallery (and in our case, the philanthropic foundation) takes responsibility not only for these creative experiments, but also for the fate of the works. Its task is, on the one hand, to present in its collection the maximum possible variability of styles, painting techniques, creative approaches and themes selected by a single criterion - to be interesting to the largest number of viewers. On the other hand, to provide access to your meeting for the largest number of people. Therefore, the offices of the Gallery Cart Art Foundation are located in many countries and cities - in Monaco, Paris, Berlin, Zurich, and the exhibitions organized by him take place literally around the world. For the first time, Moscow is also included in this circle.

Such an approach to the existence of art in the modern world today is very relevant for galleries, which are less and less a “place where paintings are hung”, and more and more - also the subject of creativity, which affects this process, correlates it with the leading trends in sociocultural life and thus even controls it. It is also relevant for the artists themselves, since in the modern world the artist is increasingly moving away from the image of a “demiurge opposing the crowd”. Electronic means of disseminating information, which often erase the barriers between the flow of information and artistic expression, have significantly affected the content, perception, distribution of works of art. The Creator is increasingly moving away from the elitist opposition to the masses and is becoming more and more a part of it, an exponent, not personally and personally manifest, hidden behind a password, nickname, avatar, pseudonym. The inevitability of such a path of art development was pointed out in the first half of the 20th century by the outstanding Spanish philosopher José Ortega and Gasset in his work “Rise of the Masses”. We can say that it was fully realized today, when the popularity of a particular event, message, phenomenon on Facebook, Instagram and other social networks and the media determines the very fact of their existence in the current field. Proceeding from this, the aesthetic priorities of contemporary art are also emerging, the goal of which is to get as accurately as possible into the mass consciousness, a direct appeal to archetypal forms and popular genres. All this does not mean that such art is devoid of individual style and creative search. On the contrary, their combination with the ability to feel popular trends can lead to the creation of truly interesting, talented works, as the Art for Art exhibition demonstrates.

The exhibition will feature more than 30 paintings made in various techniques and genres. Artists, whose paintings participate in the exposition, each in their own way searched for ways to achieve harmony between the mass and the individual. So, for example, Harry Carlson, presented at the exhibition with works from two cycles “On Nature” and “Life of Machines”, owns a unique author’s extremely laborious technique of writing long continuous lines of various thicknesses from semi-liquid ink squeezed onto the canvas, which are interwoven, layer by layer, create a unique effect of volume and image depth. His works are not alien to philosophy. The cycle “Life of Machines” is dedicated to the idea of ​​time: cars, which were once luxury goods, in paintings became destroyed by the ghosts of illusions, part of the nature that absorbs them. In these paintings, the struggle and unity of technological progress with natural forces is conveyed with deep energy and a special semantic implication. In the series "On Nature", the artist creates a feeling of incredible depth and realism of the natural landscape. Playing subtly with color and midtones, he achieves an amazing, almost mystical effect, bewitching the viewer.

John Atwood works in pointillism. He builds his canvases, like a mosaic, from the smallest dots, pixels of various color shades. Thin, colorist, John Atwood conveys form and volume in a play of color and midtones, and also gives dynamism to his characters. In his paintings, he tends to reflect modern trends related to topics popular in society: the heroization of music stars, the aesthetics of the fashion world, the idealization of femininity, etc.

Otto Wagner is an artist known for his interpretation of ethnic motifs. His paintings are an expression of the basic archetypal images in the modern interpretation. They are made with wide free strokes with a palette knife in the style of post-impressionism.

Ursula Larsen - the style of this artist is recognizable at first sight. Her focus is on female images gravitating to the pre-Raphaelite motifs; they are placed in the center of a saturated ornamental background, which plays the role of an external context. Her paintings are similar in spirit to the motifs of European Art Nouveau, American art and craft and Russian Art Nouveau, drawing inspiration from folklore and Russian folk tales.

Patrick Duchamp fits his canvases into a modern digital socio-cultural space where a bright and catchy picture absorbs or pushes all other meanings in the name of the idea to capture the attention of as many people as possible. The themes of his paintings to match this ideology - fashion, stars of show business, modern pop culture, chic and luxury - in short, everything that falls within the definition of consumerism in modern society. But he depicts all these topics with subtle self-irony and psychologism, and as a technique he resorts to sanguine, pencil, charcoal on cardboard and coated paper.

Alice Zimmerman glorifies in his paintings the beauty and individual originality of the human body. Behind the formal simplicity of lines and forms, the artist opens up the layered inner world of her characters. In her paintings, she often turns to familiar images: femininity, motherhood, love, fidelity, betrayal, loneliness, etc., often interpreted in a philosophical and mythological manner.

Jing Wu is an American artist who works in the style of abstract expressionism. A subtle colorist, he builds from the chaos of color spots a subtle harmony that fills the viewer with inner peace and tranquility. Jing Wu paintings are perfectly combined with a variety of interior solutions and can be an excellent color accent in any design project.

The Art for Art exhibition is open for visitors from October 21 to 28 from 12 to 20 hours in the DNA hall of the Central House of Artists at 10 Krymsky Val.