08 Jul 2010

KAMASUTRA SPOON at Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art

Curated by Andrey Bartenev (Moscow)

The infinite variety of erotic experience determines an infinite variety of visual expression of these experiences. Imagine that professional commitment to sculpture is a disguise used by an aficionado of group sex, or that a painter we've met is indeed a clandestine coprophagus. A panorama of printing pleasures presented in the «Kamasutra spoon» is not intended to tickle the nerves a brokenhearted libertine with a fresh offer of perversions by young experimenters. The curator notes from the start that there is a difference between the perception of sex as a physical-sensory experience and its perception as an ongoing flow of information of cultural bases and the ever-changing system of social orientation. Obscene details torn from the context will produce a erroneous interpretation of the scope of this study. For example, someone from among the curious spectators may isolate a certain frankness observed in the most superficial level, in order to diversify his slanderous skills and add color to his or her tasteless existence. Others may be tempted to strike a pose of a schoolteacher, arguing that this phenomenon is immoral and spiritually harmful, and that not even a hint of passion is to be tolerated in the visual arts.

Artists: Timofey Caraffa-Corbut (Moscow), Sasha Demin (Moscow), Ben Charles Edwards (Great Britain), Roman Frog & Masha Galaktika (Moscow), Alexandra Frolova (Moscow), Gio (USA), Florian Graf (Switzerland), Ida Grimsgaard (Norway), Aram Haus (Austria), Yuki Itoda (Japan — USA), Nora Jacobs (Germany), Sarah F. Jahn (Norway), Brian Kenny (USA), Yevgeniya Kuznetsova (Moscow), Annick Lavallée-Benny + Ieva Zule (Canada + Latvia/Norway), Alexander Lysov (Moscow), Daria Marchik (Germany), Inna Nebelyuk (Moscow), Björn Neukom (Switzerland), Ivan Onoprienko (Moscow), Jakob Oredsson (Sweden), Lovis Dengler Ostenrik (Indonesia — Germany), Patrick K.-H. (Moscow), Danila Polyakov (Moscow), Hanna Reidmar (Sweden), Gosha Rubchinskiy (Moscow), Maximilian Schmidbauer (Germany), Jon R. Skulberg (Norway), Maxim Smirennomudrenskiy (Moscow), Carlos Soto & Charles Chemin (USA + France — USA), Natalya Taranuha & Irina Voiteleva (Moscow), Andrew Terekhov (Moscow), Yakov Yermolaev (Moscow)