3E – Ecology, Ethics, aEsthetics / Artistic Dialogues
During The Danube Sea programme arch, we will get the chance to see the exhibition ‘3E: Ecology, Ethics, aEsthetics’ from 22 July to 6 August at the Rajko Mamuzić Gift Collection Gallery. The opening is scheduled for 22 July at 8 p.m.
The exhibition ‘3E: Ecology, Ethics, aEsthetics’ thematises the ecological system during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic crisis has made numerous problems of modern humans visible: many have experienced the pandemic as a metaphorical and practical response of nature to people who, embraced by the ideology and practice of furious liberal capitalism, and guided by a philosophy of profit, artificially disrupt the normal course of the natural order. Large global corporations and their owners have turned the entire world into their own resource – equally (mis)using both people and nature – not caring for a moment about the fate and future of the entire population. It is important to note that many sociologists today also recognise the impact of medialisation on the establishment of a new state of the world, noting that the combination of capitalism and computer technology supports capitalism and significantly strengthens the concept of its economy. It turned out that the pandemic was a kind of agent of the deep crisis of the world, into which, obviously, we have already stepped deeply with great certainty that difficult days await us.
Given the circumstances, modern art reacts with its ethical and aesthetic criteria. Its answer refers to the attempt to find the basis for the ‘new normal’ in the current risky society. Society, as Edgar Morin notes, in the permanent crisis of humanity fails to be humane, and ethics emerges as a necessary moral need. At the same time, the artists always strive to offer their own aesthetic systems – established within the individual work and its structure – as a kind of model of a world in which there are clearly defined relationships, because, as Filiberto Menna argued, ‘art has the right to its specificity, not to stand out, but, with its model, to act as an example to other forms of knowledge and practice’.
The exhibition will feature the works of Romanian artists Cristian Raduta, Nona Inescu and Lea Rasovszky, selected by Alina Şerban, an art theorist from Bucharest, and the Happy Trash Group, the artistic pair Adrienn Újház – Nemanja Milenković, and Vesna Tokin and Radomir Knežević, who were chosen by Sava Stepanov, an art critic from Novi Sad.
Working hours of the Rajko Mamuzić Gift Collection Gallery:
Wednesday – Sunday
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Free admission.
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