Curators Kestutis Kuizinas and Simon Rees have commissioned artist Mindaugas Navakas to create Smash the Windows, Snatch the Crystals, made from window frames and panes recently removed from the CAC. The marriage of a monumental sculpture and material from a famous example of soviet modernist architecture was a playful reflection on ways that art forms, and memories, associated with history can be productively remade.
Accompanied by a panel discussion presented in the Frieze Talks programme, the CAC’s project for Frieze Art Fair was a reflection on monumentality in post-Soviet countries and how its significance differs from the role and meaning of the monument in the west. CAC’s talk, Memories, Monoliths, Monsters? took place at 12pm Sunday 18 October.
Smash the Windows, Snatch the Crystals, was located between gallery stands F21 and F22.
