Garage Auditorium, 17.00, Free
Limited Places, drop in early to avoid disappointment
Inspired by two of our current exhibitions that focus on the sublime; Mark
Rothko, who made his works in order to visualize the impossible, and AES+F, for
whom the sublime is central to their work.
This lecture by the renowned theorist Viktor Mazin will investigate the sublime
in the art of modernism and postmodernism. The idea of sublimity was formulated
by Kant and became one of the major concepts in the aesthetics of Romanticism.
Later the sublime re-emerged in the tradition of modernism and was determined
as crucial by the postmodern philosopher Lyotard and therefore the evolution of
the idea of the sublime allows us to define the border between modernism and
postmodernism. At the same time the notion of the sublime correlates with the
psychoanalytic sublimation aesthetics.
Image:
The Feast of Trimalchio. Allegory # 8 (The War of the Worlds)
2010, digital collage, Courtesy of Triumph Gallery, Moscow
Lecturer:
Viktor Mazin, a founder of the Freud Museum of Dreams, head of the Department
of Theoretical Psychoanalysis of the Eastern European Institute of
Psychoanalysis; lecturer of the International Institute of Depth Psychology,
Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Institut d'hautes etudes en
Psychanalyse; editor in chief of the "Cabinet" journal, a member of the
editorial board of the Psihoanaliz journal, Journal for Lacanian Studies;
Journal of European Psychoanalysis; author of numerous articles and books on
various aspects of psychoanalysis, deconstruction, schizoanalysis and visual
arts, in particular such as Introduction to Lacan. M., 2004; The Mirror Stage
by Jacques Lacan, 2005; The Interpretation of Dreams. M., 2005; The Dreams of
Cinema and Psychoanalysis, 2007; The Machine by the Name of Human, 2008;
Oneyrografiya, 2008, Paranoia, 2009.
