Heroes and Illusions. The exhibition is part of Multivision Festival. Exhibition. Saint Petersburg 2017

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Heroes and Illusions. The exhibition is part of Multivision Festival

26 October 2017 — 4 December 2017

Erarta Museum is proud to present the animation and video art exhibition "Heroes and Illusions" held under the Multivision festival

Animation as a form of visual art
23 video pieces from around the world
Exploration the way in which subjectivity and the will of an individual function in the realm of non-narrative animation

Multivision Festival continues to examine animation as a form of visual art. “The Best Video Installation” nomination has been part of the Festival competition for seven years now. This category features the animations that are far more reminiscent of a painting, sculpture or scenery set in motion rather than a film. Every year the competition receives the increasing number of interesting works, which makes it more and more challenging to choose the best ones. The finalists — 23 video pieces from around the world — as well as several out of competition artworks, are presented at the exhibition in the Erarta Museum.

Having chosen “Heroes and illusion” as its subject, the exhibition explores the way in which subjectivity and the will of an individual, the plot engine in a movie, function in the realm of non-narrative animation. After all, it seems to lie much closer to the visual arts such as painting and sculpture rather than to the cinematic traditions. These works rely on the kaleidoscopes of colours and shapes, which, nonetheless, don’t necessarily imply the absences of the heroes.