This evening, in a parallel program of the 53rd Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition opens Unconditional Love

National Center for Contemporary Art and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art present an exhibition Unconditional Love - art project in the framework of a parallel program of the 53rd Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art. Today, June 3, in the halls of the exhibition center Arsenale Novissimo (Venice) to open the exposition, which will delight visitors to the whole six months - until November 5.

When someone says to me: «I love you»,
I have a feeling that to my temple of additional
pistol.

Kurt Vonnegut

Love. What is it? The word? Nipped a symbol of tender Sighs, plush bears, golden rings and hearts on Valentine's Day? Romantic gesture reflected now in circulation and demand gifts trite phrases. Love reduced to a set of social conditions, to a marriage of convenience. Executed and registered, it allows for aging bodies to forget at the time of imminent death. Physical and emotional proximity to facilitate escape from loneliness and painful reflections on the nothingness.

But what we find, if the sense of the word cleanse skin, erase love with sticky plaque convention, fresh comfort romance? She no longer appear as a way out of existential crisis, but as the crisis as a direct sense of reality in its entirety - without voids and gaps. This love is choking, captures the dense holdfast, vpivaetsya in very flesh, subordinates and assigns. In its immediate tangibility, it is like orgasm or pistol, to have the temple.

Unconditional love - it is a large-scale international project to explore identity in a state of love. He represents the spectrum of artistic approaches to defining the essence of love, unhampered by convention. His goal - to make people at least for a short time to forget about schemes in which they live, return them to the sources of spiritual power that the most evident, when love sets them to the main questions of life.

The exhibition will consist of already existing but not previously exhibited works, which are added specially created for her work. Curators Alexandrina Markvo, Alinda Sbradzha and Kristina Shteynbreher invited artists from different countries and different generations, and engaged in their work exciting and easy conversation. All three of the curator has extensive experience in organizing such a cross-cultural exhibitions and events. A. Markvo engaged in preparing a retrospective of Sir Norman Foster in Moscow, and did for 5 years the main festival of Russian art in London - Russian Act. A. Sbradzha participated in organizing exhibitions of Russian art in Bologna ArtFair and the Venice Biennale. K. Shteynbreher, curator from Germany, worked with various exhibition spaces, as the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, factory «Red October» at the gallery in Moscow and Alma-Ata.

Project participants:

AES F (Tatiana Arzamasova, 1955; Evzovich Lev, 1958; Eugene Śviack, 1957; Vladimir Fridkes, 1956. Moscow, Russia)

At Unconditional Love is the first time Moscow's video group AES S «Feast Trimalhiona». Piece reaktualiziruet fragment «Satirikon», devoted to the Roman plutocrat Trimalhionu. Orgies servants and masters are transferred to the luxurious environment of modern five star hotel. Asian servant appease white customers, and then change of roles, and white men have had their Asian maid the same services. The vicious circle of exchange of courtesies, transfers frozen temporality of glamor, which valued only the moment of youth, beauty and momentary pleasures. «Feast Trimalhiona» glides gently along the contours ephemeral passions, relieving tension with unconditional love, and leave room for freedom of interpretation.

Marina Abramovich (Serbia; rod. 1946; lives in New York)

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Serbian artist Marina Abramovich has rightly called the grandmother of performance. Her classic work of «Energia rest» (1980) is a documentation of performance: Ulay, beloved artist, nock, sending an arrow directly into the heart of Marina Abramovich. A motion passed limiting the credibility of love in the face of imminent death. A more recent work - a series of photographs «Virgo-voitelnitsa heart» (2006) - a co-author of the famous Belgian provokers Jan Fabry. Vestments in the armor Marina Abramovich has in the hands of their war booty - bleeding red hearts. We have a brutal visualization metaphorical clichés about the role of the heart in love.

Sam Adams (United Kingdom; rod. 1977; lives in London)

Sam Adams - the young British artist abstraktsionist who works in mixed genres. A distinctive feature of his abstractions - energetic, vibrating, broken geometry and harsh flavor. For the exhibition Unconditional Love Adams built three interactive «Seat of Love», turn visitors into part of an exhibition. People sit in chairs, not suspecting that anyone who visits the gallery can hear everything they say. This is not evil joke by the artist plays with the visitor: the Adams wants to show us that the visitor is an integral part of the exhibition space.

Artists Anonymous

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Kollektiv Artists Anonymous works with painting, photography, video, installation and performance, constantly breaking and calling into question the boundaries between these genres. «Anonymous» artists write butter «posleobraz» - what is left of the visual image after the disappearance of the subject. They carefully build a pair of photo-paintings: some resemble snapshots, the other - negative impressions. A picture of «How to talk love to stay» (and the corresponding negative) has a personal story - however, any visitor could find itself in the banality of everyday images.

Angelo Bukarelli (Italy; genus. 1954; live in Rome)

architect by training, Angelo Bukarelli worked in various fields, including photography and video. At the time, he assisted Fellini and Claude Lelushu. In 1974 he received an award Bukarelli Olbia Award for Best Italian documentary. He currently combines the role of the artist, critic and curator. His text sculptures involve the viewer in subtle verbal game, initiating a living idea. Unconditional Love The exhibition presents new work Bukarelli: physical reality unpolished, rough and heavy piece of iron is comparable to a heavy load infinite love.

Aristarchus Chernyshev (Russia, born. 1968; live in Moscow)

He is an engineer by training, Aristarchus Chernishev plunged into the artistic world of clandestine workshops in the days of perestroika. Now he is working on art projects in which engineering and technology skills combined with conceptual ideas. For the exhibition Unconditional Love Chernishev designed computerized lava lamp with moving erotic images, bringing to the absurd idea of decorative gadget.

Delvua Wim (Belgium; rod. 1965; lives in Ghent)

Belgian artist Wim Delvua participated in the most prestigious forums in the world. His works blur the boundaries between art and other fields of contemporary visual culture. Two major lines of his art - the theme of sensual pleasures and with complicated surfaces. In his most famous «X» Delvua series combines nesoedinimoe: radiology (medicine and concern over the preservation of life, life as an object, a zone of risk and responsibility), sexuality (pleasure is its own vitality, apotheosis of life, carefree living this moment), and picture the skeleton (memento mori, frailty and transitory nature of all our joys and earthly pleasures, a symbol of eternity and the inevitability of death). In unity and equivalence of all three senses is the product of depth and multiple unconditional love.

Dasha Fursa (Russia, born. 1978; lives in St. Petersburg)

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young Russian artist Dasha Fursa working with portrait painting, and characterized its codes of femininity. Her Ave Maria - a new perspective on the traditional iconography of Virgin Mary. A pregnant woman closely and trustingly looks at the viewer. Texture strokes emphasize its flesh skin, convex roundness of the stomach. The figure seems very earthly - only hints at the golden background of sustained iconography images metaphysical and spiritual.

Miltos Manetas (Greece; rod. 1964; lives in London)

Greek artist Miltos Manetas has gained popularity due to the conceptual animated web pages, where he presents his respects to the great artists in the genre of amusing and witty jokes. In addition, Manetas says the painting, depicting the computer hardware and external peripheral devices. Cold metal and synthetic materials presented at these pictures soft and warm, wiring - endowed with the inner life, a tiny detalki acquire an impressive view of the large canvases. Regular entries in the painting Manetasa sadness in melancholic loneliness chahnet without their ladies hearts - covering details.

Almagul Menlibaeva (Kazakhstan; genus. 1969; lives in Berlin and Amsterdam)

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Like many other Central Asian artists of her generation, Almagul Menlibaevu particularly interested in the efforts that are carried out on its homeland for the creation and establishment of post-Soviet identity. Typically, these efforts suggest, on the one hand, the strengthening of Islamic and pagan beliefs and traditions, but on the other - active integration into the global market economy. Figurative painter at the same time a number of works and plays, and criticize the dominant culture. Her video Exodus brings the viewer into a modern, we Kazakhstan, where he developed this strange and fascinating story. While men and women gather yurta with the clear intention to move forward, one girl looks at them, frozen and motionless. It seems as if it was left somewhere behind. Her image suggests uprooting traditions and peoples of the removal and flattening of the global geography of the modern world. Subject immobility, inability to move up in the short interludes: Two women are violently blow off their heads, their hair like black wings, and they turn into creatures like birds, but can not fly.

Musko Angelo (Italy, lives in New York)

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Last Work Angelo Musko, Hadal, got its name from a term signifying the deepest part of the ocean. Living a ball of hundreds of silvery rushing swirl of naked bodies in the misty darkness, recalling the deep sea. Connected composition of the supple, flexible bodies of men and women is very erotic, but because of the frenzied speed, and lack of individual properties, there is a sense that this is not the people, and congested sperm. The artist creates an image of an enigmatic, mysterious and fragile origin of life.

Youssef Nabil (Egypt; rod. 1972; lives in New York)

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Youssef Nabil I have to go. 2007. Source: Press Release MMSI

ironic self-portrait of a young photographer Youssef Nabil dry and instructive contrast to the more expressive manifestations of emotions in Unconditional Love. The first cover of his self dvuhsostavnogo «I have to go» (2007) depicts the artist, sleeping alone in a framed poster with a dreamy rafaelevskimi heruvimchikami. The second panel had already disassembled the bed is empty. There is the contrast between the dynamics of the body, left the room, and the absolute static kitchevoy romance, embodied in a poster and a double in the picture Youssef Nabil.

Velena Nikov (Russia, born. 1968; live in Rome)

VELENA Nikov Sacro Profano Series Amerai. 2008. Source: Press Release MMSI

art career Veleny Nikov, the daughter of an Orthodox priest, was started in 1987 when she won the prize for best young designer of the Soviet Union. After the first group exhibition at the Central Exhibition Hall «Manege» in 1990 she took part, along with Valery Cherkashin the conceptual exhibition «silver. Underground erotica »at a central Moscow metro station. Currently, its silk-screen prints are stored in many museum collections. A new series of prints on canvas is a trace phone, dim flashes of light. Because of such a «partial eclipse» it is very difficult to understand what is happening: the hand of the ghostly figures whether vskinuty in horror, or raised to defend itself, or spread to embrace.

Zhaume Plensa (Spain; rod. 1955; lives in Barcelona)

Zhaume Plensa is one of the most famous and recognized artists of his generation and one of the leading representatives of Public Art. His sculptures can be found all over the world - in Chicago, Stockholm, Barcelona, Tokyo, London, Toronto and many other cities. A distinctive feature of these works - a quiet reverie and contemplation, responsive with the spirit of the city and meaningful dialogue with the urban landscape . Unconditional Love The exhibition will be presented his installation Gluck Auf: diaphanous curtains with the full text of «Universal Declaration of Human Rights». Confused paragraphs and scattered letters «Declaration» represent an insurmountable gap between the prescribed rights and their actual absence. Attempts to put the letters in words are in vain: is nonsense, dumb broth. The meaning of the text disappears from the lifeless. This discrepancy arises whenever we try to express my feelings of love. Only in this case the situation turns its gap opposite: the radical freedom of love is not the description, it is completely soluble in conventional acid words and symbols.

Olympia Skerri (Switzerland; rod. 1983; lives in London)

Olympia Skerri - the young artist with psychological education - particularly interested in repressed fears and desires and attempts to overcome them. Her installation Rise. Above. The. Shit is a three-glass box. At the bottom of the upper box set, two neon lamps. «Glamor crap» - a sculpture of black rubber - flies in the heart of middle box. Bottom two mirrors create an endless reflection. Rays of light, shimmering mirrors and glass walls, sleek frame physicality artificial excreta are connected to the brutal verdict is empty and bleak nartsissicheskoy self.

Olga Soldatova (Russia, born. 1965; live in Moscow)

OLGA Soldatova Untitled. 2009 Source: press release MMSI

artist and designer Olga Soldatova combines in his work the old Russian tradition of embroidery with beads and an appeal to nostalgic themes of Soviet life. This technique brings to her work, special sensual peculiarity. Ironiziruya about their own roles «commercial» designer Olga Soldatova in the best tradition of pop-art play with audience expectations and deliberately creates the «art Takeaway». But this does not naïve indulgence desires of the audience, but rather a sincere aspiration to meet these needs.

Vadim Vadim Zakharov (Russia, born. 1959, lives in Moscow and Cologne)

VADIM ZAKHAROV Stoel Punishment love. 2004 Source: press release MMSI

Vadim Zakharov creates ironic and subtle conceptual works reflexive in relation to an informal artistic environment the early 1980's and to the terms of Moscow's kontseptualistov. The presented his sculpture in 2004 - «Stoel Punishment love». This product has been two sources of «inspiration»: first, special antique chair designed to punish children, and secondly, bamboo torture practiced in ancient China (the offender placed on the young shoots of bamboo and allow them to germinate through his body) . In the chair on the ground Zaharova night pot or bamboo is a ceramic pot with live roses - the symbol of the notorious hackneyed romance, turned into an instrument of torture nightmare.

Sources: press release MMSI, mmoma.ru