On March 16, The Farjam Foundation invites viewers to experience a group exhibition featuring 15 renowned artists, whose works challenge our perception of reality by merging art with science, creating a renewed harmony between man and nature, and restoring art at the metaphysical dimension.
Inspired by the German art movement, Zero (1957-1966), founded by Otto Piene and Heinze Mack, the exhibition explores aspects of Minimalism and Conceptual art, encompassing a diverse range of mediums including sculpture, mapping, installation, painting, mixed media on paper and light works. The featured artists include: Daniel Firman, Fabrice Hyber, Otto Piene, Mark Francis, Gulay Semercioglu, Michael Sailstorfer, Walid Raad, Timo Nasseri, Kathy Prendergast, Peter Peri, Sylvie Fleury, Carlos Rolon, and Rana Begum. Though the artists were selected for their individual strengths without any thematic restraints, certain commonalities emerge when their works are considered as a group. Each of the chosen artists offers a fresh perspective on the fundamental vision of a new aesthetic that attempts to re-harmonize the relationship between man and nature. The works alternately challenge and inform each other, with each piece making individual yet contextual statements that expand our visual vocabulary and cast a different light on our hitherto-held perceptions.
Each artist investigates the infinite possibilities of nature and form through the deconstruction of language, communication and material. Just as the number zero is infinite, the artworks in the exhibition comment on the cyclical nature of infinity, representing the incommensurable zone in which the “old state” transforms and becomes the “new;” conceptualizing the cycles of natural birth and decay through form, structure and method.