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FALSE HOPE AND EMPTY THREATS
Einar Grinde solo exhibition
UPCOMING




 

PLAN B

 

 

In the 19th century, Art started to be studied by the human sciences as a mandatory subject in the education program. In the 60s of the 20th century, in the United States, DBAE (Discipline-based art education) was created, an approach to artistic education that is based on four artistic disciplines: artistic production, art history, art criticism and aesthetics.

 

Artistic language is one of the most strong influences on the modern society, encouraging the way we see and relate with the world by reflecting about the complexity of current issues, sponsoring interaction with technology, contemporary art challenges us to think critically and participate actively in society. In an ever-changing world, art remains alert in the current matters, bringing people together through its expression. This constant dialogue between the past, the present and the future makes contemporary art one of the most active and engaging forms in today's world.

 

However, art does not totally correspond to the image of real life, but slightly an idealized life that is equally important. We are currently facing a disbanding - like all cultural disbanding, of sign meaninglessness but euphorically daydreaming about changing the world.

 

Einar Grinde's FALSE HOPE AND EMPTY THREATS presents a series of works that question the role of social activism in the future.

When will be the next revolution? Not here, not now? Will be virtual or online?

What are our demands and what will be our slogan?

Using classical symbolic tools of class and popular activism, Grinde explores what a plausible revolution looks like.

At a time when propaganda has moved from the streets to the virtual space, how can we come to an agreement on the terms and conditions of our demands? And who is funding the next revolution?

 

Disagreements in a present days that more than dialogue encouraging, intensify the problem without any resolution guarantee due to the only fact that we are unable to identify the speakers who announce an frivolous scream.

The false closeness through apparently democratized virtual media elevates unregulated freedom that noisily throws many problems to the wind - often in an ostentatious and spectacular way, but which unfortunately does not lead to social pacification.

 

History cannot be written without unquestionable values, consciously clear or unconsciously hypothetical.

Values cannot exist without an reviewer and the only one that society knows, is the human being.

 

 

 

Lisbon, January 2025

Mercedes Cerón

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