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Allegoria Sacra, panorama #2, 2012, digital collage c-print (150 x 450 cm in Diasec; 110 x 270 cm on fine art Barita paper)
Exhibition
The Trilogy Plus
11 Sep 2015 – 7 Nov 2015
Address
- 32 rue Blanche
- Brussels
Bruxelles - 1060
- Belgium
Aeroplastics contemporary_Jerome Jacobs present the first exhibition in Belgium of the Russian collective AES+F, composed of artists Tatiana ARZAMASOVA, Lev EVZOVICH, Evgeny SVYATSKY and Vladimir FRIDKES.
About
The exhibition focuses on the group's most emblematic project, Trilogy, whose making took nearly a decade to achieve. The three works that go to make it up are Last Riot (presented in the Russian Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale), The Feast of Trimalchio (unveiled, again in Venice, in 2009), and Allegoria Sacra (presented in 2011 at the Multimedia Museum of Moscow, and in parallel at the Biennial of Contemporary Art). These are multimedia works, combining still- and moving images, photographs and digital animation, and within which music often plays a preponderant role. Each section of this vast triptych addresses, in a most singular style, one of the three myths upon which Christian faith reposes: Heaven, Hell and Purgatory. The parallel with the Old Masters does not stop there: Allegoria Sacra draws direct inspiration from the eponymous painting by Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516), while Gareth Harris recalls - besides the Mannerist aesthetic that characterizes the approach of AES+F – an encounter between Calvin Klein (b. 1942) and Caravaggio (1571-1610), regarding Trimalchio. These references owe nothing to mere chance: Bellini, who incarnates the transition from the Gothic to the Renaissance in the history of painting, symbolizes the start of a new era, one more focused on the recognition of the individual as such. Olga Sviblova aptly notes how the working process of AES+F is taking place, too, at a pivotal moment in history, when the advent of a globalized world and digital networking might lead to humanity's deliverance or to its damnation.
