Exhibition “Noises and garbage” by Romualdas Požerskis
On April 30th, an exhibition “Noises and garbage” by Vytautas Magnus University’s (VMU) professor Romualdas Požerskis was opened at VMU Art Gallery “101”.
Photography kicked the stool out from under the feet of fine art in the 19th century and it is still shaking in the hangman’s noose. Artists began to wander in the labyrinths of the human subconscious and look for the purity of art in abstraction, while the followers of Art Povera and Junk Art, 50 years late, drag trash and noise to museums and galleries. These concepts are funded like failed banks. Noise art is a dehumanized, soulless product, a casket of foreign notions and concepts. Noises cause memory lapses, disturbances in logical perception and interfere with concentration. Noise art causes the destruction of moral values, unbalances the balance of feelings and thinking. The nature of noise art is the oversaturation of art and the inbreeding of art. There is no room in the noise for the flight of the human spirit and the sounds of the lakeside spring morning.
Drowned in pits of noise and garbage, art deforms, loses the orientation of time and meaning. Noise distorts the nature of art. In the dehumanized world of noise, there are no value foundations left. As the noises and liquid debris fall, you become part of the art dump. In a world of noise, the fear of harmony and beauty is programmed. In the background of the art of destruction, talented authors are despised because they are resistant to noise. Against the background of noise, it is safer for mediocrities to hide among mediocrities.
Visual noise grates sharp corners, levels the criteria of art. The result of moral destruction is the boredom of the narratives of art projects. The noise of visual art dulls the senses and suppresses the passions. Noises of sounds destroy melody, harmony and polyphony. In the modern background of noises, there is no chiaroscuro, psychologism, social problems, a look of a hurt child or the last look of a dying person. In this art there is no smell of the plowed soil, fresh milk, baked black bread, hot blood of a slaughtered animal or a cup of heritage. The noises of modern art spit primitivism, TikTok platitudes, disgusting kitsch, wax Barbie dolls of artificial intelligence. Junk politics breaks democratic principles and destroys the lives of free neighbors with guns. Noise media poisons human love. Self-esteem is drowned in garbage.
The clock is ticking… Only what will we leave behind?
Romualdas Požerskis
The exhibition is open until May 20 at VMU Art Gallery “101” (Muitinės g. 7, Kaunas)
