Š particular attention should be drawn to the aesthetical properties of gold and silver, which make them the natural material for pomp, ornament, glamour, the requirements of festive occasions, in short, the positive expression of supra abundance and wealth. They appear, so to speak, as solidified light raised from a subterranean world, since all the rays of light in their original composition are reflected by silver, while RED alone, the colour of the highest potency, is reflected by gold. Sense of colour, moreover, is the most popular form of aesthetic perception in general Š
PROJECT/-EXHIBITION: theRED (the 3rd)
RUSE ART GALLERY, Ruse 7000, 39, Borisova Street, BULGARIAOPENING: 04.11.2014, 5:30 P.M.
DURATION: 05.11. - 28.11.2014
The text quoted earlier on is taken from Karl Marx's "Critique of Political Economy". This text, written in 1859, quasi intended as a preliminary study to "Capital" (1867), does not deal with aesthetic reflexions as its content might suggest, but with the genesis of the ideal equivalent of goods: money as a good.
Another short extract from the same chapter shall clarify this:
"Finally the fact that it is possible to transform gold and silver from coin into bullion, from bullion into articles of luxury and vice versa, the advantage they have over other commodities of not being confined to the particular useful form they have once been given makes them the natural material for money, which must constantly change from one form into another.
Nature no more produces money than it does bankers or a rate of exchange. But since in bourgeois production, wealth as a fetish must be crystallised in a particular substance, gold and silver are its appropriate embodiment. Gold and silver are not by nature money, but money consists by its nature of gold and silver."
The way in which the participating artists have reacted to the theme in their individual works can be seen in this exhibition. Among them are sound and video objects as well as ONLY-objects, postcards and envelopes in drawn, collaged as well as painted forms, concept works and paintings.
Steps of theRED:
3. RUSE ART GALLERY, Ruse 7000, 39, Borisova Street, BULGARIA (05.11.-28.12.2014)
4. projectroom MAG3 (as installation / + presentation of documentation: March 2015)
Participating artists:
A.T.M.O.T.W, Roula Akriotou, Christian Alle, Darlene Altschul, Mary Anne, Anonym, Ana Marta Austin, Ona B., Nora Bachel, Christian Bachler, Kum Nam Baik, Anna Banana, Christiane Bänninger, Tiziana Baracchi, Armin Bardel, Vittore Baroni, Richard Baudet, Hanna Bayer, Gottfried Bechtold, Angela Behrendt, Lancillotto Bellini, Peter Below, C Mehrl Bennett, John M. Bennett, Pedro Bericat, Sal-Gerd Beyer, Gustav Böhm, Alan Bowman, Sebastian Brandt, Paulo Bruscky, Eric Bruth, Keith A. Buchholz, Vicente Calcagno, Joaquim Cantalozella, Lucas Cejpek, Valérie Céravolo, Viviana Cernjul, Carolina Chew, Bruno Chiarlone, Eva Choung-Fux, Osvaldo Cibils, Ryosuke Cohen, Patricia Collins, M.B.Corbett, Cosmo, Robin Crozier, E - Ambassade D'Utopia, Steve Dalachinsky, Ko De Jonge, Achille De Moewald, David Della Fiora, Michel Della Vedova, Taftaridoy Despoina, Irene Dogmatic, David Drum, Mike Dyar, Irma Eberl, Titia Eggen, Felipe Ehrenberg, René Eisenegger, Michael Endlicher, Anita Endrzze, Ernst Falk, Fernanda Fedi, Marie Fenianos, Julian Feyerabend, Cesar Figueiredo, Robert Filler, Beba Fink, Nicole Finsinger, Fiereus, Piet Franzen, Fritz Fro, Dirk Fröhlich, Anita Fuchs, Thorsten Fuhrmann, Scot Ganinger, Ana Garcia, Michael Geyersbach, Gino Gini, Carlo Maria Giudici, Alfred Graselli, David Gold, Sabine Groschup, Elke Grundmann, Wolfgang Günther, Dora Guzman, Bibi Haag, Romana Hagyo, Mary Hajisotiriou, Roland Halbritter, Marc Haltmeyer, Kay L. Harrell, Bernard Heidsieck, Kurt Heinzelmaier, John Held, John Upton, José Oliveira, Judy Kleinberg, K.Frank Jensen, Klaus Groh, Litsa Kaschau-Spathi, Luce Fleur Helsingor, Barbara Höller, Linde Hörl, Andreas Horn, Eva Hradil, Maria Hubinger, Oskar Hummer, Eni Ilis, Imaginé Par B., Iona, Julia Izmailova, Ruud Janssen, Connie Jean, Miguel Jiménez, Sarah Jo Pender, Frank Jödicke,Hazel Jones, Don Eisenfusz Jonson, Juliea Joules, Christian Kri Kammerhofer, Lisbeth Kammerlander, Rora + Dobrica Kamperelic, Susa Kavalar, Barbara Keating, Gracker Jack Kid, Petra Klabunde, Skarli-Danikou Kondilia, Margret Kreidl, Leo Kreisel-Strauss, Emil Kriege, Thomas Kuschny, J.Lehmus, Leonie Lehner, Florian Leibetseder, Michael Leigh, Alexander Limarev, Christoph Lissy, Francisco Londoño, Joaquim Lourenço, Rupert Loydell, Claudia-Maria Luenig, Michael Lumb, Serse Luigetti, Jennifer J.Shelby, Ruggero Maggi, Silke Maier-Gamauf, Renê Mainardi, Tatiana Makarova, Mirko Maric, Dórian Ribas Marinho, Willie Marlowe, Adriana Marmorek, Luis Martín, Pietro Romano Matarrese, Norbert Math, Anja Mattila-Tolvanen,Royston Du Maunier-Lebek, Moreno Menarin, Ute Mescher, Jürgen Mester, Lindsay Meyer, Michael Michelmayr, Iegeon Mihaere, Ministry Of Lamination, Antoni Miró, Denis Mizzi, Laurent Molet, Ken Montgomery, Annemiek Mullenders, Peter Müller, Goia Mujalli, Városi Müvészeti Muzeum Györ, Keiichi Nakamura, Marta Negre, Andrew Maximilian Niss, Richardas Norvila, Anne Nowrowski, Shin Oh! No Dera, Marina Ntovrou, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Andre Pace, Clemente Padin, Kamagi Paraskevi, Julian Payan, PC(Tictac), Resa Pernthaller, Silvano Pertone, Daniele Petrucci, Klaus Pinter, Claudia Plank, Hans-Werner Poschauko, Harriet Poznansky, Daniele Principe, Ted Purves, Consuelo Margarida R. Debiagi, Evmorfia Rachouti, Terry Reid, Tulio Restrepo, Monica Rex, Ivana Rezek, Ulla Rohr, Claudio Romeo, Michèle Ruffin, Heike Sackmann, Marina Salmaso, Brigitte Sasshofer, Gue Schmidt, Rosa Leona Schmidt, Collin Scholl, Claudia Schumann, Angela Schwank, Makario Sciascia, Pryde Sciascia, José Roberto Sechi, Mariana Serban, Maria Sfiniadaki, Maria José Silva - Mizé, Simonson, Andrej Skrbniek, Berty Skuber, Michaela Söll, Christiane Spatt, Johannes Stoll, Giovanni Strada, Rod Summers, W.Mark Sutherland, Jaromir Svozilik, Robert Swierkiewicz, Liana Swink, Dottie Thomason, Angelika Thon, Trisiie Tierartops, Arpad Toth, Horst Tress, Lubomyr Tymkiv, Christine Ulm, Anna Usova, Tatjana Vallejo, Van Breest Smallenburg, Amanda Van Munster, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Ángels Viladomiu, Rigby Wachsfield, Simon Warren, Anja Wiese, Peti Wiskemann, Suzie Wong, Reid Wood, Mirjam Wydler, Janice Yudell, Robert Zahornicky, Klaus Dieter Zimmer, Robert Znajomski
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