The Feast of Trimalchio, 2010
AES + F  

Photography : C-print · 42 x 55.5 x 1 cm 16.5 x 21.9 x 0.4 inch

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As the second part of The Liminal Space Trilogy, The Feast of Trimalchio is an ironic allegory of Heaven, taking its title from an eponymous fragment of Gaius Petronius Arbiter's Satyricon. Situated at an impossibly luxurious island resort that miraculously combines a tropical coastline with a ski slope, the work explores geopolitical, cultural, racial, and gender issues, weaving them into a single complex narrative that surveys the contemporary relationships between two key global socioeconomic classes: masters and servants. The masters are represented as the white-clad guests of the resort, their demographics reflecting more or less the distribution of global wealth. The servants are predominantly young and attractive representatives of the global South working in the vast hospitality industry, dressed in traditional uniforms with an ethnic twist. As the leisure time of the masters drags on, strict social roles slowly melt into ambiguity until they are fully reversed in the tradition of the Roman saturnalia. While many cataclysmic events take place in this Paradise, from a tsunami to an invasion by aliens, everything always reverts to an endless ritual of leisure and pleasure, in which the servants and the served alternate in perpetuity.

The Feast of Trimalchio was originally composed of a video installation in 9-channel, 3-channel, and single-channel versions, as well as a series of Allegories as large digital collages and 9 Panoramas that fit together into a single ultra-wide digital collage. Later the project also came to include a series of oil paintings, printed stills from the video, and portfolios of photographic source material. Visually referencing Mannerism, ancient Roman frescoes, and tourism advertisements, the video is accompanied by a classical soundtrack featuring Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 and Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, with contemporary interludes commissioned from Pavel Karmanov.

The project was first shown in 2009 as a 9-channel video installation at the group exhibition Unconditional Love, an official accompanying event to the 53rd Venice Biennale, followed by the 17th Sydney Biennale, and a solo exhibition at Moscow's Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in 2010, where it was accompanied by the digital collages. In 2013 the project was displayed as part of the extensive survey exhibition of The Liminal Space Trilogy at Moscow's Central Exhibition Hall “Manege" and the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, which also included the paintings from the project. Since then, The Feast of Trimalchio has been shown in various configurations at many museums, galleries, and festivals around the world.

AES + F, The Feast of Trimalchio

AES + F

Russian Federation  • 1987

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AES+F is a group of four Russian artists: Tatiana Arzamasova (1955), Lev Evzovich (1958), Evgeny Svyatsky (1957), and Vladimir Fridkes (1956). The group was formed in 1987 as AES by three artists: Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich and Evgeny Svyatsky. Photographer Vladimir Fridkes joined the group in 1995, and the name of the group changed to AES+F. The collective lives and works in Moscow.
AES+F group focuses on photography, photo- and computer-based art, and video art, as well as using other traditional media such as drawing, painting and sculpture. Their works have been exhibited at numerous international exhibitions: (namely the biennales of Venice, Lyon, Sydney, Gwangju, Moscow, Gothenburg, Havana, Tirana, Istanbul, Bratislava, Seoul etc.), ARS-06 (KIASMA, Helsinki). Their works appear in the collections of some principal Russian national museums including The State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), The State Russian Museum (St.-Petersburg), Multimedia Art Center (Moscow), as well as other European collections including Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Musée de l'Elysée (Lausanne), MOCAK (Kraków), Sammlung Goetz (Munich) and Center Pompidou (Paris).

The group's video "Last Riot," shown at the 2007 Venice Biennale, depicts an imagined future digitally manipulated where snow-capped mountains sit next to desolate beaches, neon dragons rest atop oil platforms, planes collide without flames, and a band of attractive teens enact violence on one another without consequence.[1] Their 2009 work "The Feast of Trimalchio" featured at the 17th Sydney Biennale.[2] The description of the video can be found here. In 2011 AES+F presented a new project «Allegoria Sacra» (a third part of trilogy started by «Last Riot») in Multimedia Art Museum Moscow as a special project of 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. In 2012 «The Liminal Space Trilogy» was presented simultaneously in Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow and in Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. Then later Trilogy was shown in Kichik-QalArt Gallery in Baku, Azerbaijan, Faena Art Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in Musée de Beaux Arts in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.

AES+F is represented by the Triumph Gallery in Moscow, Russia; by the Volker Diehl Gallery in Berlin, Germany; by the Noire Contemporary Art in Turin, Italy; by th Anna Schwartz Gallery in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia; by the Hans Knoll Gallery in Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary; by the Ruzicska Gallery in Salzburg, Austria; by the SEM-Art Gallery in Monaco; by the Charlotte Moser Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland; by the Arario Beijing Gallery in Beijing, China; by the Loop Gallery in Seoul, South Korea; by the Art Statements Gallery in Hong Kong and Tokyo; by the Juan Ruiz Gallery in Maracaibo, Venezuela & Miami, USA.

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