Exhibition PRO BONO PUBLICO
01.05.-31.05.2015
Fondamenta dei Penini
Castello 2432
Venezia, Italy
Opening 03.05.2015
17-21
Artists: Edgars Mucenieks, Liena Muceniece, Luce (Edmunds Lucis), Andris Vitols
THE TABLE OF WAR, Liena Muceniece
My name is Liena. I'm living in Latvia,located in Europe. Perhaps you've never heard of it and don't have clue where it is. That's understandable. At the beginning of my project journey I found out that there are a lot of countries that are unknown to me as well. Luckily - while making this project - I'll search for at least one person from each country and together we'll be making an art project. It's called "WAR". Two years ago, I created a performance "I don't know, what war is". Thank God, I had never experienced it, just heard stories from my parents about World War 2. While there were riots and warfare in Ukraine this summer, few military planes flew over my roof, I felt insecure and scared, and I asked myself: "What if same situation would be here, which I call my home?"
TRAIN, Luce (Edmunds Lucis)
An art work is a message and my personal experience of comfort and awkwardness, anxiety and peace. The upper part of the work reminds lightning streaks or whiplash traces in space or the black bones that can be seen as anyone wishes. The tenderness and the gentle rhythm in the lower part of the art work contrasts and, at the same, time harmonises it. Waves settle, awap and overflow in each other. The semi-transparent body of it is tranquil even worrying serene. The title of the art work "TRAIN" tells the story of the illusory intimacy and unknown land of our inner world which is just yet waiting for its discoverer, its explorer, its owner.
I have initiated a discussion with this art work on how the fragility defeats force. Everything becomes the way it is happening in life.
PLUMULE, Edgars Mucenieks
There are only one way for two lowers to stay together for a long time, may be for a lifetime – simply they must blow a small plumule betveen them all the time. To blow means to work for those relationships and to make them new every moment, this means to keep concentration first on yourself and in the same time on your partner. This is something very light, fragile, delicate and tender between two people who are important for each other and there are something to do for to keep this plumule always on air.
Savadais dzivo tur, Andris Vitols
A breath of my space is like an ignorance of myself -
undetermined borders of the certain world.
Acquaintance, opulent of wine, inquires:
"Do you play bagpipes?"
I answer: "No!"
I just paint sometimes.
I create art objects - installations,
but in general I am a carpenter.
(LV)
Izstādē „PRO BONO PUBLICO” (no latīņu valodas „Vispārējam labumam”) eksponēti instalāciju, video un glezniecības darbi. Izstādes nosaukums ietver tematisko loku, par kuru mākslinieki diskutē savos darbos. Par robežām, par zināmo un nezināmo pasauli, par līdzās dzīvošanu, sabiedrības attieksmi un viedokļu dažādību, kā arī vērtību sistēmas izmaiņām un morālo stāju mūsdienu pasaulē. Mākslas darbos caurvijas pārdomas par mieru, mīlestību un iekšējās pasaules iluzoro intimitāti. Izstādes fokusā dominē jautājums par iznīcību un to, ko esam gatavi darīt, lai nākotne būtu laimīgāka.
Projektu atbalsta Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonds, Hotel Bergs un JK Consulting Group