The art collective behind the improvised Kazakhstan pavilion at the Venice Biennale has a simple message: 'Everyone is an artist.'
“We were crushed,” Rustem Begenov, who cofounded Orta with his wife, Alexandra Morozova, in 2015, told Artnet News.
, the Russian artist who inspired the pavilion and the collective. Kalmykov lived in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata, and is today considered today one of the nation’s most important art-historical figures—he made 1,500 artworks and thousands of pages of manuscripts that were posthumously discovered after he died in penury.
“We were just so inspired by Kalmykov’s attitude toward art,” Orta’s Sabina Kuangaliyeva told Artnet News. “They call him the Kazakhstani Van Gogh.”at the Kazakhstan pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Photo by Sarah Cascone. Instead of presenting its planned presentation, the collective is staging daily performances at noon and 5 p.m. that it calls “spectacular experiments.”
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