The exhibition includes artworks by established and mid-career Qazaqstani artists whose work was created over the past 30 years. On the one hand it displays materials and techniques (what art is made of), and on the other it is about its metaphysical properties (what art becomes afterwards).

Different artists use unique tools of expression to achieve their goals, but one way or another any artistic act is closed within the physical and material world. More often than not, the artist finds these materials near the place where they live - this is how the masters of Ancient Rome used Carrara marble, as it was within reach and could be easily found and delivered to the studio.

The modern world supplies the artist with a huge amount of secondary raw materials and pushes the idea to use it to create paintings, sculptures, installations, and sometimes video art. In our perception plastic, metal, ready-mades, fabrics, rubber and other things are nothing more than domestic waste, but in the artist's hands they are transformed to get a second life and become the pieces of art.

They don't end up in a city dump, but in a museum, where everyone can look at them and think about the issues of ecology, true beauty, the value of life and everything that surrounds us, about the change of times, which we see through the change of materials, and how historical contexts change our sense of beauty.

The hosting venue of the exhibition is especially important in the frame of the mission of the Future Energy Museum, which was created to mediate the ideas of decreasing CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, switching to renewable energy sources and reducing the hydrocarbon footprint in Kazakhstan and the world.


The exhibition is initiated and made possible with the support of National Company QazExpoCongress.