Aga Ousseinov "Ice Cold War"
Christopher Henry Gallery
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The Christopher Henry Gallery presents Ice Cold War, an exhibition of new sculptures, works on paper, and moving images by Aga Ousseinov highlighting the artist’s ongoing investigations into the imaginative futility of Utopian ideals. As in Thomas More’s Utopia,
Ousseinov’s body of work presents an optimistic, albeit improbable, view of a world that does not yet exist.
The apparent enthusiastic, yet naïve reverence for such a perfect, yet impractical goal is the basis of Ousseinov’s sardonic wit. The artist unceasingly examines the legacy of past dreamers making light of idealist visions juxtaposed against the cynicism of their realization. Using the kite as a metaphor for travel between the heroics of early 20th century high moral values and the helplessness of contemporary society, the artist addresses the unstoppable decline of Western civilization through the contraptions of high technology it covets. Ousseinov’s celebration of this alternative future is the necessary antidote to the nostalgia of the past and the unholy apocalypse
of our present demise – without illusion there is only disillusion.
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Aga Ousseinov. was born in Baku (USSR) and studied sculpture at the Surikov Fine Arts Institute in Moscow (MFA) and photography at ICP, New York. He has lived and worked in New York since 1991.
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Schedule
from March 28, 2013 to April 28, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-03-28 from 18:00 to 21:00