As part of Garage’s program in partnership with UNIQLO, the Museum’s Senior Curator Ekaterina Inozemtseva will give a lecture on the specific perception and accessibility of contemporary art.
One of the most enduring myths about contemporary art deals with its incomprehensibility and the impossibility for, say, classical painting lovers to grasp why an exhibition space should contain palm trees, horses, ropes and bricks, and sometimes even nothing and no one at all.
In her lecture, curator Ekaterina Inozemtseva will try to undermine this set of persistent beliefs and clarify why Velasquez and Bosch are transcendental compared to contemporary artists and perhaps even more provocative than any recent performance acts. She will also attempt to “decipher”, or “expose” selected contemporary artworks that will help to put an end to allegations of its speculative nature and the incompetence of artists, as well as to discover in the listeners the ability to love that which is happening here and now, and concerns our own selves in the first instance.