Unresolved Extravaganza

2013 - 2016

“Trust me – I’m an artist,” Gabriel Lester says sometimes. Should we trust that he is an artist? Should we trust whatever he says because he’s an artist? What if he says “I am Kanye West”? What if he says this artist run exhibition is about creating a composition of autonomous universes with a centre that is not the artist himself? Should we not look surprised when he says each separate element is a group show in and of itself? Should we have confidence in his friends’ intentions to play along the lines of a crew in production and narrative making? Should we believe that the excessive figure of the artist is necessary for collective celebration and joy? “See you in the future,” Gabriel Lester cheerfully calls, as if everything that comes to us is coming to meet us.

The Unresolved Extravaganza is a truly artistic extravaganza, a phenomenon that is characterized by an autonomous style and structure, and a broad range of theatrical elements. In the exhibition, a selection of art works of Gabriel Lester from the last two decades has been brought together. All these works have come into being through dialogue, through artistic collaboration, or arising from a collective working method. Furthermore, a number of earlier works from Lester’s body of work is given renewed attention, special treatment, interpretation, mixing and remixing.

Unresolved shows fragments of projects Gabriel Lester and Raimundas Malasauskas jointly developed, together with guest appearance, special guests, dialogue, mixes and re-mixes created of Carlos Amorales, Maria Barnas, Helmuth Batista, André Chapette, Mariana Castillo Deball, Valentina Desideri, Henryetta Deurschlag, John Fare, Boyon Kang, Jonas Lund, Robertas Narkus, Darius Miksys, Monadnock, Lisa Rosenblatt, Cooking sections, Mario Garcia Torres, Freek Wambacq and Olaf Zwetsloot.