The project "New Sincerity" is concerned with a special phase in the art processes occurring in modern-day Russia's visual culture, namely with the return of the sensual element in the intellectual spheres. Its images derive from the natural artistic gesture and an attempt at a direct utterance addressed to the topical phenomena of the social and cultural life in the new Russia. The images carry an element of play and irony where a creative intuition predominates over rationality and thus realize the organic mission of art to be dissolved in actual reality. The forms of these 'testimonials" come close to improvisations albeit keeping within the practices of the ritual, and thus they bring out people's consciousness and cultural memories. The artists' creative freedom, as it is realized in this project, symbolizes the social freedom of democratic society.
This project presents artists whose art appeals to the inner processes in human consciousness or in the social processes, which are often left without proper artistic interpretation. The artists look at political, social, and technological problems through the prism of their sensual, intuitive perception. Their objects, paintings, photographs, and video installations penetrate the surface of the modern world, so over-saturated with information, and spotlight the problems of people's perception of social, political, and esthetic phenomena today.
http://www.nybiennaleart.org/guest_of_honour.htm
Curator: Vitaly Patsukov
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