Work
Together Stay Alive
Curated by Tzvetnik (Natalya
Serkova and Vitaly Bezpalov )
Participating
Artists: Caro Eibl, Genevieve Goffman, Guillermo Ros, Julius Pristauz, Philipp
Simon, Sarah Księska, Vitaly Bezpalov, Vladimir Kolesnikov, Yein Lee
Artists: Caro Eibl, Genevieve Goffman, Guillermo Ros, Julius Pristauz, Philipp
Simon, Sarah Księska, Vitaly Bezpalov, Vladimir Kolesnikov, Yein Lee
30th October – 7th December 2019
Exile Gallery
Elisabethstraße 24
1010 Wien
Austria
1010 Wien
Austria
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| Yein Lee: Me Moi Series (detail), 2018-2019Acrylic on PVC sheet, polyurethane foam, steel, wire, spray, 176 x 143 x 42 cm & 137 x 125 x 34 cm |
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| Sarah Księska: Cleaning up my closet, 2019. Oil and acrylics on polyester, 135×240 cm |
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| Work Together Stay Alive, 2019. Installation view, EXILE |
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| Work Together Stay Alive, 2019. Installation view, EXILE |
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| Caro Eibl: The Open Space, 2017-2019. Video, 47 min |
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| Philipp Simon: image, plant, afterwards, certainty, 2019. Pencil on paper, A4 (frame 40×50 cm) |
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| Philipp Simon: moment, sunset, exhaustion, client, high-value, decision, timeline, yahoo, 2019. Pencil on paper, A4 (frame 40×50 cm) |
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| Work Together Stay Alive, 2019. Installation view, EXILE |
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| Guillermo Ros: Braços de Toguro, 2019. Drawing, Chinese ink and acrylic paint on phenolic board, car laquer, 135 x 90 x 3 cm |
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| Vitaly Bezpalov: Score Management II, 2019. Uniqlo Dress Shirt, print on paper, dimensions variable |
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| Vitaly Bezpalov: Score Management II (detail), 2019. Uniqlo Dress Shirt, print on paper, dimensions variable |
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| Genevieve Goffman: Killing Time, 2018 & Good Boy, Good Comrade, 2017. PLA Plastic |
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| Genevieve Goffman: Good Boy, Good Comrade (detail), 2017. PLA Plastic, 11 x 11 x 19 cm |
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| Genevieve Goffman: Killing Time, 2018. PLA Plastic, 17 x 16 x 16 cm |
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| Julius Pristauz: Pink clock (2×12), 2019. Roman clock, spray paint, 60 x 60 cm |
EXILE
is happy to invite you to an exhibition curated by Moscow-based curator and
writer Natalya Serkova and artist Vitaly Bezpalov entitled Work Together Stay
Alive.
is happy to invite you to an exhibition curated by Moscow-based curator and
writer Natalya Serkova and artist Vitaly Bezpalov entitled Work Together Stay
Alive.
Is
it a mistake to say that a lemon slice in your teacup always tends to float towards
your lips as if to deliberately ruin your tea drinking experience?
it a mistake to say that a lemon slice in your teacup always tends to float towards
your lips as if to deliberately ruin your tea drinking experience?
Sometimes
we may even rapidly rotate the cup 180 degrees assuming the slice’s gonna stay
where it was. However, no matter how fast we are, the lemon is always faster to
turn up on that exact side of the cup we take a sip from. What is it? Is it
some kind of lemon conspiracy? For this to pass as a conspiracy, there’s going
to be a global communications network binding a swarm of lemons. I guess they
all work together with an element of surprise on their side. Each as yellow as
a minion, a team worker. A dog pack is working together in order to…
we may even rapidly rotate the cup 180 degrees assuming the slice’s gonna stay
where it was. However, no matter how fast we are, the lemon is always faster to
turn up on that exact side of the cup we take a sip from. What is it? Is it
some kind of lemon conspiracy? For this to pass as a conspiracy, there’s going
to be a global communications network binding a swarm of lemons. I guess they
all work together with an element of surprise on their side. Each as yellow as
a minion, a team worker. A dog pack is working together in order to…
What
are we talking about when we talk about group show? Is it a work done together?
Bananas are as yellow as lemons, but do they also communicate? Even if they do,
it sure doesn’t look like it. And there is no way for us to know. For the most
part a banana split is made by a human, not a banana. A banana split is
definitely not the same thing as a lemon slice position in your tea cup, these
things can not be compared. Are lemons alive? Alive because of yellowness or
because of their ability to act correspondingly? A communications network and
being alive – these two things are interlinked.
are we talking about when we talk about group show? Is it a work done together?
Bananas are as yellow as lemons, but do they also communicate? Even if they do,
it sure doesn’t look like it. And there is no way for us to know. For the most
part a banana split is made by a human, not a banana. A banana split is
definitely not the same thing as a lemon slice position in your tea cup, these
things can not be compared. Are lemons alive? Alive because of yellowness or
because of their ability to act correspondingly? A communications network and
being alive – these two things are interlinked.
Things
that work together qualify as living things. What about the non-living? Can
non-living things work together? I don’t know. Can something work together just
because it’s yellow? To be yellow—is it a reason enough to be alive? Wait. It
is us who see the color yellow. A lemon will give it to you straight: it is you
who sees things living. So who’s right? Work together? Stay alive?
that work together qualify as living things. What about the non-living? Can
non-living things work together? I don’t know. Can something work together just
because it’s yellow? To be yellow—is it a reason enough to be alive? Wait. It
is us who see the color yellow. A lemon will give it to you straight: it is you
who sees things living. So who’s right? Work together? Stay alive?
Natalya
Serkova (b. 1988) is a philosopher and art theorist, currently based in Moscow,
Russia. She has received a B.A. in Philosophy in RSUH, Moscow. Her book ‘That
What Might Be Given’ («То, что может быть дано»), written in a
genre of theory fiction, was published in 2017 in Russian. She is a contributor
to Moscow Art Magazine, e-flux journal, RevistaArta, isthisit?, OFluxo and
others.
Serkova (b. 1988) is a philosopher and art theorist, currently based in Moscow,
Russia. She has received a B.A. in Philosophy in RSUH, Moscow. Her book ‘That
What Might Be Given’ («То, что может быть дано»), written in a
genre of theory fiction, was published in 2017 in Russian. She is a contributor
to Moscow Art Magazine, e-flux journal, RevistaArta, isthisit?, OFluxo and
others.
Vitaly
Bezpalov (b. 1985). Lives and works in Moscow. Artist, co-founder of Tzvetnik.
Selected exhibitions include Sans (t)rêve et
sans merci, Cube, 2019; Hands of Doom VI, Storage Capacite, Berlin, 2019; Tilt,
In.Plano, Paris, 2018; Obvious-incredible, 427 Gallery, Riga, 2018; No
Where/Now here @Jim Morrison Room/Ultrastudio, Los Angeles, 2018; Ruminations
of the Midnight Stroll, Harlesden High Street, London; The Rhythm of the Night,
Center RED, Moscow, 2017; Paradise on Mars, OJ, Istanbul, 2017
Bezpalov (b. 1985). Lives and works in Moscow. Artist, co-founder of Tzvetnik.
Selected exhibitions include Sans (t)rêve et
sans merci, Cube, 2019; Hands of Doom VI, Storage Capacite, Berlin, 2019; Tilt,
In.Plano, Paris, 2018; Obvious-incredible, 427 Gallery, Riga, 2018; No
Where/Now here @Jim Morrison Room/Ultrastudio, Los Angeles, 2018; Ruminations
of the Midnight Stroll, Harlesden High Street, London; The Rhythm of the Night,
Center RED, Moscow, 2017; Paradise on Mars, OJ, Istanbul, 2017
TZVETNIK
is an independent online curatorial platform founded in 2016. TZVETNIK is aimed
at documenting and archiving the international contemporary art process. It
facilitates curated aggregation of the cultural output coming
from various creative communities, individual artists, visual art specialists
and global trendsetters in the art world. TZVETNIK was founded and is currently
run by Vitaly Bezpalov and Natalya Serkova.