RITES WITHOUT MYTHS

RITES WITHOUT MYTHS
Said Atabekov, Egill Sæbjörnsson, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio,
Yelena Vorobyeva e Viktor Vorobyev, Lin Yilin, Artur Żmijewski.
Curated by Ilari Valbonesi

Impronte contemporary art, Milan, Italy
via Montevideo 11 – 20144 MILANO
www.impronteart.com

Inauguration 16 September 2010, at 18.30
The Exhibition ends 30 October 2010

The exhibition Rites without Myths explores the ritual character of contemporary art, where works have no specific beginning, but are rooted in a recurrent experience: art is the rhythmic event thus consigned to the self-organized practice. Already the title reneges on the grand, legitimising “narration” of the myth, whether personal or collective. Further we have a new generation of artists who stage functioning intentionality through a strategic use of repetition, already an intermodal form of order. Naturally, these are works of strikingly unique style, this however can be ascribed neither to a universal order of space and time nor to an egocentric approach aimed at making art an “individual mythology”. It is rather the artist who operates in function of the work, assuming the role of officiant in the rite: the ambiguous foundation that nevertheless gives a rhythm on what is ordered. Transfiguring codified symbologies and traumatic events, art is thus “rite without myth”, a symbolic repetition, ironic art, anarchy, the work's continuous engenderment on the temporal plain and within the deformation of existing orders. (Ilari Valbonesi, 2010)

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It is a common thing to fence in an orchard or a garden, not so to enclose an empire.