Empathy indicates the ability to imagine yourself in the place of another. What does the generation of 20 - 30 year old artists think about that war, and, in particular, about the very beginning of it? What should a person feel if he would be suddenly overtaken by the war? What images can be born about this terrible war in minds of generations of 90s that are living, seemingly in a different country and in works of artists who had never painted about this topic?
Several of these artists who are working with different art technics, were asked to review their attitude to the events, and not only just with using books, movies, stories of veterans, but try to imagine themselves in the situation of the beginning of a great and terrible cruelty. Their task was not to create a memorial work, but to display with all possible ways, objects that arise in a contact with the topic. The images of the war, that suddenly has involved millions of people into a vortex of war - are the goal of this exhibition. Not a genre, not an illustration but the image! The focus should be made on the fate of the man, the artist should try to stand «on a human side». Especially because the human world unfortunately could not completely go out of wars...
In one letter of the future Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hess (letter of The First World War times) can be read: «Nationalism cannot be ideal - this is particularly clear now that the moral principles, the internal discipline of mind of spiritual leaders from both sides showed the utter bankruptcy. I consider myself as a patriot, but above all I am a man, and when one is not the same as another, I always stand up on the side of a man.». That statement was proposed as a title to the project.
Several of these artists who are working with different art technics, were asked to review their attitude to the events, and not only just with using books, movies, stories of veterans, but try to imagine themselves in the situation of the beginning of a great and terrible cruelty. Their task was not to create a memorial work, but to display with all possible ways, objects that arise in a contact with the topic. The images of the war, that suddenly has involved millions of people into a vortex of war - are the goal of this exhibition. Not a genre, not an illustration but the image! The focus should be made on the fate of the man, the artist should try to stand «on a human side». Especially because the human world unfortunately could not completely go out of wars...
In one letter of the future Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hess (letter of The First World War times) can be read: «Nationalism cannot be ideal - this is particularly clear now that the moral principles, the internal discipline of mind of spiritual leaders from both sides showed the utter bankruptcy. I consider myself as a patriot, but above all I am a man, and when one is not the same as another, I always stand up on the side of a man.». That statement was proposed as a title to the project.Participants: 25-30 graduates of the Surikov Institute (young people from 23 to 30 years).
There will be presented about 30 works: paintings, drawings, installations and digital works.
This project is curated by Galina and Vyacheslav Ereschuk.
There will be presented about 30 works: paintings, drawings, installations and digital works.
This project is curated by Galina and Vyacheslav Ereschuk.