One of a thousand ways to defeat entropy

Associated media

Until 27 November 2011

Curated by Alexander Ponomarev and Nadim Samman, this major international exhibition features monumental new works by four exciting  artists from very different backgrounds: Alexander Ponomarev (Russia), Hans Op de Beeck (Belgium), Adrian Ghenie (Romania) and Ryoichi Kurokawa (Japan). This is an Official Collateral Project of the 54th Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art – the world’s oldest and most prestigious art festival.  The exhibition is organized by the AVC Charity Foundation (London) with the academic support of The Courtauld Institute of Art.

Entropy is a key term characterizing the movement towards chaos – in physics, probability theory, sociology and information technology.  The entropic end-state is nothing less than uniform oblivion, which has been  associated with representations of melting and liquidification – an ocean of homogeneity.  The exhibition throws light on this inescapable tendency (as it is declared to be the second law of thermodynamics). The exhibitors claim that resistance to it can be carried out only by a creative person. The artists believe that only creators give birth to life energy that is capable of creating improbable structures. The bearers of this power – artists, engineers, poets – are a small army, the guides of evolution, warriors with cosmic noise.

Official collateral project,

54th Venice Biennale

Arsenale Novissimo

Tesa Nappa 89

Venice, Italy

www.labiennale.org