PLASTICITY VS CONSTRUCTIVISM
Esentai Gallery presents a group exhibition of contemporary art from the series "Art of a Dialogue" - DIALOGUE SECOND: PLASTICITY VS CONSTRUCTIVISM. The exhibition features 14 artists, their experimental works in different genres and techniques - painting, graphics, sculpture, collages. The authors build a dialogue through their works, created in different periods of time and belonging to two main categories of research - plasticity and constructivism, the search for forms to express reality. Plasticity of forms, the combination of color, a sense of weightlessness, forming special aesthetic characteristics in art and the ability of materials to change and create a different form, as well as maintain the importance of the environmental factor in the range of art research.
Constructivism is characterized by austerity, geometricity, conciseness of form and monolithic appearance. As a formula that communicates to the viewer the basic idea, through the lines, is the sense of non-objectivity, the combination of simple forms in dynamics and statics, subtly feeling abstract geometric elements. In the exposition space, plasticity and constructivism enter into a dialogue, where the integral part of the viewer's perception is the search for harmony among the artistic conflict. Taking various forms, genres, techniques the two very different directions enter into a dialogue of functionalism, which sought to emphasize the expression of modern structures in art and rhythmic combination of aesthetics, coherence of movements, flexibility. Transformation of different forms and their application in the context of art carries a clear perception of reality and the actuality of human existence. Artistic conflict (from Latin conflictus - clash, disagreement, and dispute) is a representation and embodiment of acute struggle, collision, opposing interests, passions, aspirations, ideas, actions, and characters in art. Economic, political, philosophical, moral and other major contradictions of the era are specifically reflected in artistic conflict. Artistic conflict is an essential moment of the ideological and aesthetic content of art. The philosophical depth of a work of art is largely determined by how it reflects the contradictions of the time. The concept of conflict is close to the collision, but has an independent meaning, because the conflict is a sharp and clearly expressed collision. Artistic conflict is not reduced to a simple depiction of the real contradictions of reality. Conflict in art is an artistic and figurative reflection of contradictions that are difficult to solve or unsolvable at all, like in social being and human psychology, in the deepest dialectics of human life, class antagonisms, the struggle of the new with the old, where each artist seeks his own form to express and reflect the opposites on one surface, in order to form a harmony. Conflict in art always has an aesthetic coloring, it represents a struggle between the forces of good and evil, light and darkness, humanism and reaction, i.e. the clash of the beautiful and the ugly, the sublime and the base, chaos and order. This is a means of deep and large-scale artistic reproduction of life, the dynamic development of the subject, a multifaceted and vivid disclosure of human characters and concepts. With diversified research paths of each artist, the conflict takes the form of a clash of characters and forms – seen in the sculptures of Alibek Mergenov; the struggle of passions – in the abstract paintings of Darkhan Rukholla and the graphic art work of Nurlan Tapauov; the ideological confrontation - the collages of Mariya Peskova, tragic states - sculptures by Saken Narynov and installation by Sabirzhan Bespayev, harmony of incompatible forms, process and completeness - depicted in works of Bakhyt Bubikanova, Syrlybek Bekbotaev and Munisa Guliyeva, and also juxtaposition of minimalism and chaos, reflected in works by Lyazzat Khanim, Shege, Katya Kan, Violetta Bogdanova and Galymzhan Balsary.