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Website: http://www.irenecaesar.com

College / University: CUNY Graduate Center

Program / Degree: Ph.D. in Philosophy (ethics / aesthetics)

Member type: Artist, Critic

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?: Conceptual, Digital, Painting, Performance, Photography, Video

I am...: Irene Caesar is an artist-provocateur who creates absurd performances documented by photography to put to the test major concepts of the human civilization. Her artwork is in three American Museums: Bayly Museum of the Virginia University, the Duke University Museum of Art, and Zimmerli Museum of the Rutgers University. In 2011, she will have a major solo show “A New History of Ideas in Pictures” at the Moscow House of Photography, one of the most important Photography Museums in Europe. The selection of this show will be exhibited at the Eduard Planting Gallery in Amsterdam. Irene Caesar was born in 1963 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She lives in the NYC.

About my artwork: IRENE CAESAR: PHOTOGRAPHY STATEMENT

http://www.irenecaesar.com

I only do staged photography, even if I shoot on location. I am not interested in “f/64” documentary reportage, because I believe that reality is a creation of collective and individual consciousness, and the two-dimensional ready-mades of everday existence are simply a thin illusory surface hiding the reality where people truly dwell. However, my take on staged photography is radically different from any staged photography known to me. The difference is that I stage action produced in performances which very closely resemble theatre and cinema. Usually, art photographers who create staged photography use 8x10 or 4x5 view cameras that do not have automatic focus and require subjects to be very still in front of the camera. This carries on into the aesthetics of imaging. The too-static staged photography seems to lack expressiveness and defeats its goals. My goal is to create images of performances that make people live in front of the camera in a more intense way than how they live in their everyday lives. In this sense, my staged photography is a counter-staged photography, as well as it is a counter-documentary reportage. And that is why my images are not simply movie stills, which are the artificial and mannerist cuts from externalized action.

I define my style as theatre of absurd documented by photographic means. The project “A New History of Ideas in Pictures” includes works done in the studio in the form of absurd performances. Each image is a part of a set of images (usually 3 to 5), which represents the entire continuous performance. The overall objective of the project is an ambitious programme to evaluate the major concepts of human civilization, like human nature, the origin of man, the universal good and evil, the Divine father and the Divine mother, the sacred and the profane, the sublime and the bestial, race, gender and its ambiguities, ego and alter-ego, fetish, super-hero, objectification of women, modes of mass consciousness like modes of seriality and patriarchal domination, modes of inferiority and suffering, and the attitudes towards death.

I predict that very soon humanity, as we know it now, will cease to exist, being changed by computational biology. We have little time left to document humanity in its pure form - with all its suffering and imperfection.

Artists I like: Chuck Close
Diane Arbus
Hieronymus Bosch
Peter Bruegel The Elder
Caravaggio
Otto Dix

Interests: Photography, Painting, Poetry, Philosophy

Centre of the artworld:: New York

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IRENE CAESAR: PEOPLE OF ART AS OBJECTS OF ART

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IRENE CAESAR: A NEW HISTORY OF IDEAS IN PICTURES

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IRENE CAESAR: INTERVIEW for NTV AMERICA "Persona Grata" with MIKHAIL GUSEV, August, 2010

NTV-AMERICA: Mikhail Gusev interviews Irene Caesar for the Program PERSONA GRATA, August: http://vimeo.com/14454945

Posted on April 28, 2011 at 4:30

ARTHUR DANTO speaks about IRENE CAESAR, 2010

Video: Arthur Danto speaks about Irene Caesar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK1cSrzBrGY

Posted on April 28, 2011 at 4:00

IRENE CAESAR: TV3 BOSTON INTERVIEW WITH LENA NEVA "Meeting Interesting People," November 2010

TV3 Boston Interview and Showcase: “Lena Neva interviews Irene Caesar for the Program MEETING INTERESTING PEOPLE, December: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D612JSVMZEY

Posted on April 28, 2011 at 4:00

IRENE CAESAR: INTERVIEW for RUNY Web with Kate Bychkova, January 2011

Interview for RUNY Web and Showcase: “My Ideological Struggle” (Kate Bychkova interviews Irene Caesar, January): http://www.runyweb.com/articles/culture/art/irene-caesar-interview.html

Posted on April 28, 2011 at 4:00

IRENE CAESAR'S artwork on the cover of the book by EKATERINA DAIS "John Fowles Mysterial Tradition"

“The Templar” by Irene Caesar (conceptual portrait of Edmund Voyer, the Prior of the Knights Templar, NYC) on the cover of the book by Ekaterina Dais "John Fowles and mysterial tradition," М.: Club Castalie, 2011. – 244 p. (published April), which is included into the list of the best books of the 3^rd week of April by the "Nezavisimaia Gazeta," Russia. version:…

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At 17:56 on October 3, 2011, Dietmar Fleischer said…: Hello Irene,

sorry for being so late to accept your request. I miss the email. But now it is good to see your work.

liebe Grüsse

At 17:49 on July 10, 2011, hixwerybrey said…: nice to meet u..my name is ruck..yeem^^

At 16:06 on May 15, 2011, Mr. Mike said…: Brilliant body of images bravo I am proud and honored to be your friend! Thank you!

At 21:24 on May 1, 2011, ccc said…: Thanks for friendship,I think your work is extreme and obvious,a eye opener for me.very interesting.

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At 5:24 on April 28, 2011, Anna Jaros said…: Hello Irene,

Thank you for friendship and interesting works!

Best wishes,

Anna

At 10:08 on January 26, 2011, Sam Sharman-Dunn said…: Hi Irene, Pleased to meet you!

I think your work is wonderful, hugely inspirational! Do you ever exhibit in the UK?

At 14:16 on January 23, 2011, Caractac said…: Hello Irene, Thank you for the friend request aaaaand for being my first friend here on artreview..Wishing you the very best..x