Beacon, NY – Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to announce First of all, it’s beautiful, a new project by artist, curator, cultural strategist, Marat Guelman, developed in collaboration with the international art group + - Komma (Ruslan Solopeev, Boban Marković Jr., and Jean Jules). The exhibition considers AI not simply as a tool but as a co-author, a partner in articulating the aesthetics of an anxious age and offering a renewed perspective on identity. This exhibition is the sequel to the exhibition that was held in Ethan Cohen Gallery in New York City earlier in the year.
The project was inspired by the observation that the theme of nuclear threat is used as a tool of political pressure. First of all, it’s beautiful reframes collective dread, specifically the nuclear threat, without resorting to direct political rhetoric. Instead, Guelman proposes a lucid acceptance of finitude, much as one accepts personal mortality. From this stance, clarity and freedom emerge. First of all, it's beautiful is not about destruction, but rather a new form of inner stability. It explores how culture can transform fear into conscious experience and threat into the language of art.