UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. VENICE ART BIENNALE 53

An Official Collateral Event Curated by Alinda Sbragia, Christina Steinbrecher, Alexandrina Marcvo.

Patronage of Moscow Museum of Modern Art, National Center for Contemporary Art

Staring AES+F, Marina Abramovic, Miltos Manetas, Jaume Plensa, Samuel Adams, Artists Anonymous, Angelo Bucarelli, Aristrakh Chernyshov, Wim Delvoye, Dasha Fursey, Almagul Menlibaeva, Angelo Musco, Youssef Nabil, Velena VeretelNikova, Olympia Scarry, Olga Soldatova, Vadim Zakharov.

If somebody says: «I love you», to me, I feel as though I have a pistol pointed at my head. Kurt Vonnegut

Love. What is it? The word? Nipped a symbol of tender Sighs, plush bears, golden rings and hearts on Valentine’s Day? Romantic gesture reflected now in circulation and demand gifts trite phrases. Love reduced to a set of social conditions, to a marriage of convenience. Executed and registered, it allows for aging bodies to forget at the time of imminent death. Physical and emotional proximity to facilitate escape from loneliness and painful reflections on the nothingness.

But what we find, if the sense of the word cleanse skin, erase love with sticky plaque convention, fresh comfort romance? She no longer appear as a way out of existential crisis, but as the crisis as a direct sense of reality in its entirety – without voids and gaps. This love is choking, captures the dense holdfast, vpivaetsya in very flesh, subordinates and assigns. In its immediate tangibility, it is like orgasm or pistol, to have the temple.

Unconditional love – it is a large-scale international project to explore identity in a state of love. It represents the spectrum of artistic approaches to defining the essence of love, unhampered by convention. Its’s goal – to make people at least for a short time to forget about schemes in which they live, return them to the sources of spiritual power that the most evident, when love sets them to the main questions of life.