Past
Events
Aes+f
Last Riot
14
September - 10 October 2007
Images
Biography
The Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art presents paintings
and video by Russian artists AES+F. The opening of the
exhibition will be held on 14 September 2007 at 8.00pm.
The AES+F group works with the digital technology of modern
image creation. Their activity best corresponds to
Aristotle’s concept of techne, meaning craft,
knowledge and art. They work with computer installations
based on real photography, sculptures, video performances
and computer animation. “In our latest works we create a
space not photographically, but pictorially, a kind of
post-post-photography. Our creations are not simply
photographs; rather, different objects are shot at different
times. Then all the images are united into a digital
collage, a single picture, which is then ‘glazed’ as in
painting. We call it digital painting. You could say that we
use photographic and computer technology to reproduce the
process of creating a classical picture.”
The Last Riot series
“The virtual world generated by the real world of the past
twentieth century, like an organism emerging from a
test-tube, expands, leaving its borders and grasping new
zones, absorbs its creators and mutates in something totally
new. In this new world, real war looks like a
virtual-reality game, and prison torture appears as the
sadistic exercises of modern valkyries. Technologies and
materials transform the artificial environment into a
fantasy landscape of the new age. This paradise is also a
mutated world where time is frozen, where all past epochs
neighbour the future, where inhabitants lose their sex and
become closer to angels – a world where the most severe,
vague or erotic imagination is natural in the fake, unsteady
3D perspective. The heroes of this new age have only one
identity – the identity of the rebel of the last riot. The
last riot, where all are fighting against all and against
themselves, where no difference exists any longer between
victim and aggressor, male and female. This world celebrates
the end of ideology, history and ethic.”
