Visual/Conceptual

Visual/Conceptual

From the NCCA collection

Curator Leonid Bazhanov

Participants: Viktor Alimpiev, Nikolai Andrievich, Konstantin Batynkov, Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Vladimir Bashlykov, Ervin Wurm, Alexander Gorokhov, Vladislav Efimov, Yury Zlotnikov, Francisco Infante, Alena Kirtsova, Vyacheslav Koleichuk, Igor Kopystyansky, Paul McCartney, Tony Matelli, Raul Meel, Nikolai Nasedkin, Irina Nakhova, Viktor Pivovarov, Mikhail Roginsky, Jaan Toomik, Boris Turetsky, Damian Hirst, Ivan Chuikov, Igor Shelkovsky

The exhibition presents works from the NCCA collection of domestic and foreign artists united by the problem of the relation between visual and conceptual intentions in artistic works. Thus, it touches on the sphere of “irrelevant”, under-resolved, undiscovered, “eternal” problems for visual art. The visual is based on the process of perception, not creation; the conceptual is based on the process of forming an image, artifact, creative gesture, or project.

There is no open opposition of the visual and conceptual in the exhibition, only intricate webs of barely perceptible, conscious and unconscious emphasis by the artist in the simultaneous coexistence of both in art.