Location: Zere School of Fine Arts
Address: 11, Residential Complex "Botanical Garden" 11/2, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Date: September 15
Time: 18.00
Grand opening of the exhibition. A buffet, pleasant music and socializing.
Date: September 16
Time: 16.00
Lecture "How to look at contemporary art and understand it".
Date: September 17
Time: 14.00
Art Mediation - a new format for viewing contemporary art exhibitions.
Initially, both the representation of this subject in arts and establishing a large-scale project are associated with serious challenges facing society. There is a rational connection between Assel Sargaskayeva’s art and her life stance as a woman towards the outer world and the ways it manifests itself. The artist is raising vital questions about the balanced and happy existence of a woman in a patriarchal world. Her works are a synthesis of material and spiritual values that are inherited in the feminine part of society, in a balance of emotions, feelings, cognition and common sense.
The underlying feminist ideology also helps perceive and analyze Assel’s artworks in terms of their artistic value. It acts as a baseline for the interpretation of her art that can be used for understanding both her works and the theme of this exhibition.
The artist celebrates motherhood while believing that it should not be seen as a limit or goal for being a female, but rather it should be a part of one’s life concept that supplements intellectual and spiritual functions. Assel’s art looks to support building one’s identity but finds it important to be based on a motivating vector of focus on the need to articulate a new discourse on the role of women in the construction of social fabric. The unique vision and worldview give life to a new phenomenon in philosophy and art history — the phenomenon of positive feminism.
by Irina Shrainer