ART Habens Art Review ART Habens Art Review - Special Issue #97 | Page 163

An interview by
and
, curator
curator
I have always valued types of artists that
speak to the audience, or as in many cases -
just to themselves, with their works in a very
archaic, subliminal powerful language; and
those artists that pose difficult philosophical
or humanistic questions but taking them to
the subconscious with the power of their
artistic language. I suppose the biggest (and
probably most important) task modern visual
artists face today is to develop a language as
powerful and informative as written literary
works. The only way I think it can be achieved
successfully and in full is by talking to the
subconscious – and this is the advantage of
visual art over literature.
Maksim Kuznetcov
For example, take the centuries old problem
of a belief, say religious belief; an artist can
take religious symbols and confront the
audience with an inner intrinsic doubt that
every believer has. This would be a bold
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