AES+F
The Feast of Trimalchio
(Solo Exhibition)
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, MoscowJune 19 - August 29, 2010 Garage Center for Contemporary Culture
19A Ulitsa Obraztsova
Moscow
The world premiere of The Feast of Trimalchio, the new series by AES+F - a luxurious exhibition will include a monumental 9-channel video installation and a series of large-scale digital ‘paintings’. The Feast of Trimalchio is an interpretation of the best-preserved part of the witty but melancholy fiction ‘Satyricon’ by Gaius Petronius Arbiter, the great Roman poet of Nero’s reign.
This captivating exhibition will envelop visitors in a temporary hotel paradise, where they can enjoy the excesses of wealth, luxury and gluttony. The artists have created their beautiful visual feast with the glamour of a advertising campaign for a luxury brand. The people who inhabit this tropical and exotic hotel are either ‘masters’ or ‘servants’. The masters might be university professors, brokers, society beauties or intellectuals. The servants who work in this vast world are housekeeping staff, waiters, chefs, gardeners, security guards, masseurs. But their roles become increasingly unclear as the action unfolds. The unbridled pleasure of this apparent paradise is constantly threatened by global catastrophes hidden around every corner, casting a dark shadow.
AES+F is a collective of four Russian artists, Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky and Vladimir Fridkes, who work with photography, video, sculpture and mixed media. The group is known for its masterful manipulation of the fashion and advertising idiom which, when combined with a deep appreciation of the history of art, produces slick yet complex and challenging narratives.
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