BE THERE
Last Riot 2Presented by Claire Oliver November 15, 2007- December 29, 2007Reception: November 15, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmAES+F Group
In this new world, even real war appears to work as a video game; paradisiacal and cataclysmic images exist as one, no difference can be discerned between victim and aggressor; no pain or blood is evident. In a landscape that varies from arctic to desert to mountainous, scattered with everything from pagodas and chalets to Ferris wheels and palm trees, AES+F's Heroes rumble with knives, swords and clubs, battering and cutting each other but never actually making contact. Behind them all eras collide: 1930s aircraft, futuristic monorails and tanks from World War I create a perverse Modernist fantasia. Formed in 1987 as AES, the group originally consisted of the three members Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, and Evgeny Svyatsky. They were joined in 1995 by Vladimir Fridkes, transforming into AES+F. The faceless, corporate styling of the group's moniker and the collaborative efforts that subsume individual concerns into a group identity have created an environment in which a project can avoid issues of personal history and focus on a critical engagement with contemporary society. In addition to the 52nd edition of the Venice Biennale, AES+F's work has been recently exhibited in the 10th Istanbul Biennial, The Cobra Museum, Netherlands, Casino Luxemburg, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia and the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm. The artists have upcoming exhibitions at The Tate, Britain, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Passage De Retz, Paris. This will be the second solo exhibition of the artists' work at Claire Oliver Gallery.
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