CK19 Cultural Center presents an exhibition by the well-known art group BERTOLLO (Andrey Bertollo, Elena Bertollo), 'Love of Fireworks' — an art project about the search for pleasures and other ways of escaping troubling reality. The exhibition features 6 large-scale installations, photographs, video, and a number of other art objects.
The project addresses the particularities of human perception and invites thoughtful reflection on the boundaries of personal experience, interaction with the surrounding world, and escapist fantasies.
Open endings, irony, artifice, experiment, cinematic qualities, and elements of the objectively real — smells, sounds, personal stories, authentic objects, documentary photos and videos — are important for understanding the exhibition's concept.
The authors invite the viewer to ask themselves questions such as: why do we seek pleasures (a love of fireworks) and strive to identify with personal experience (family, home, society, activity, ideas, etc.)? Are reasonable reactions and actions possible outside of an unquestionably cohesive and conscious perception? And what does this 'zero', foggily indeterminate feeling of 'emptiness' mean for us — a source of fear or a stimulus for inquiry and creative possibilities?
Within the project, a firework is understood as entertainment (a distraction), a way of forgetting oneself, a false 'illumination' that is instantaneous, excessive, bright, sweet, and useless.
"Art, in the context of our views, is above all an instrument of self-development — for understanding and transforming the way we think and interact with the external world. Through our works we enter into a dialogue with others, triggering mechanisms of response. What we strive for today can be defined like this — THE REAL PRESENT (the present here as the locus of objective reality, authenticity, the essence of things)," the artists Andrey and Elena Bertollo share.
The exhibition includes the installations: 'How to Fill the Void', 'Residence Permit', 'Love of Fireworks', 'Firework', 'Direct Hit' and 'Mechanical Sister'; and the art project 'Nothing Personal'.
The exhibition by the art group BERTOLLO is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of conceptual art, where each exhibit becomes a reflection of deep meditations on human existence. The works of Andrey and Elena Bertollo, rich in philosophical and anthropological ideas, invite the viewer not only to observe but to participate in a dialogue about reality and imagination. This is not just a visual experience but an instrument of self-development and transformation that helps us see the depth and beauty of everyday life.
12+
The exhibition opens on November 8 and will run through December 8.
