Maurizio Cattellan ir Pierpaolo Ferrari, Toiletpaper, 2011
What are you missing? Searching for an answer to this quite personal question art curator Julija Cistiakova gathered ten artists from all over the world to take part in the contemporary art project „What is missing?“ The exhibition of the project will be opened on Friday, 11th of October at 6:00 PM at the Exhibition Hall of Klaipėda Culture Communication Center (KCCC) (Didžiojo Vandens Str. 2).
„Once during a conversation at the art fair a friend from Italy asked what I was missing. After a while, having entered this question into „Google“search I was surprised to find among the top results an extract from the novel „Fahrenheit 451” by my favourite author Ray Bradbury answering the question what the society is missing: quality information, the leisure to digest it and the freedom to act resulting from interaction of the two above“ – recalled the curator.
Problems raised by R. Bradbury six decades ago inspired the curator to analyse current situation in the light of these issues and to invite artists: Abraham Cruzvilleg (Mexico), Hans Op De Beeck (Belgium), Maurizio Cattellan and Pierpaolo Ferrari (Italy), LG Williams (USA), Seth Price (USA), Dora Garćia (Spain), Christian Jankowski (Germany), Bronė Neverdauskienė (Lithuania) and Dan Perjovschi (Rumania) to take part in the conceptual art project named „What Is Missing?“
„If you prepare an exhibition on dissemination of information, to limit yourself by one country or only Europe is at least boring. Although the artworks of this project differ but they refer to the same topic” – commented the curator. The aim of the exhibition, by J. Cistiakova, is to look at the situation when the local context distorts a global message, re-designs and interprets it to the local benefit.
Visitors of the exhibition will see video-installations, objects, prints and other works analysing multiple aspects of the nature of information, patterns of its dissemination, accessibility, relations with personal experience. The exhibition will present results of the artists’ collaboration with a daily newspaper, a logistic company, art critics, where the „system“ has become a participant of creative process.
J. Cistiakova is a graduate from Ecole du Magasin in Grenoble (France) /higher school for art curators/ living and working in Paris as an independent curator. In cooperation with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist she worked in the project „Brutally Early Club“, she is a co-author of the book „Harald Szeemann. Individual Methodology“ (JRP|Ringier, 2008). The artist worked as a curator of exhibitions in the Performa biennial in New York, in private galleries and in the contemporary art centres in Belgium, Canada, France, Russia.
In Lithuania J. Cistiakova made her debut as a curator in 2012 presenting the art project „Prestige: Phantasmagoria now” (in cooperation with her colleagues Ignas Kazakevičius and Vidas Poškus from KCCC), where French philosopher and art curator, the director of National School of Fine Arts in Paris /École des Beaux-Arts de Paris/ Nicolas Bourriaud was invited as a guest.
The exhibition „What is missing?“ in KCCC will run until 10th of November, 2013.
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