Starting a new course, I would like to systematize the existing experience with sculpture and three-dimensional works, as well as set the tasks that I want to solve. This will help me track my progress and development.
I studied the basics of sculpture in Sao Paulo 2016. The process of working with clay (firing, painting), preparing a silicone frame for casting, working with gesso, vermiculite.
Here are some examples of my clay works:
I don’t like most of the works as there is no liveliness, novelty and the shapes are simple, heavy and not interesting.
Although, after the refinement of the work with colour or additional material it became better.
Also, moving the readymade from a permanent environment to a new space or combining an incompatible, created more questions, which was a positive experience.
At that stage, I was interested in understanding the difference and in feeling the boundaries between painting and sculpture. Experiments with water and oil on a flat surface required a vertical position and space around the object, which is a sculpture property, while “the flat surface, the shape of the support, the properties of the pigment” (Greenberg) confirmed that, nevertheless this is a picture.
I also experimented with different kinds of light. But, as I began to interfere beauty of nature with my original idea, all searches slipped into kitsch. That is, art objects became "beautiful", "lovely", simple and did not formulate anymore any questions for art. So I had to stop this work. Later I learned about Pino Pascali where painted panels were filled with water and Fabrizio Plessi who put water under glass and as a result made video art. Here for me the topic was finally over and lost interest.
Next was the stage of the readymade, but rather a "nature-made". It was interesting to understand how things can be assigned with a different meaning. I tried to do this through the colour. But it seemed to me that Ugo Rondinone is doing it better and I left this topic.
In Shanghai, I was struck by the delivery culture. Everything you can order online quickly and cheap and it will be delivered to you in 1/2 days (!). Cheap cardboard, hollow inside has become for me the personification of this culture. Consuming in a different form. No pretty, expensive, luxury cover, only beige square boxes. But upon returning to Europe, I realise that aesthetically educated German cannot perceive a cardboard box as an art object and people still shopping in an old-fashion way - personally going to the store.
Another of the similar examples of unaesthetic art was an experiment with time. Inspired by the work of Sam Taylor-Wood, Still Life 2001, I began to experiment with the most successful example of the passage of time - the full cycle of life and death, since this process determines the presence of the body, of the object and its absence as such.
The first experience turned out to be doubtful, I could not understand how to capture this process and what a temporary object or photographs that will remain as an object of art. So, gradually, I came to the video and online broadcast.
In the subsequent work “Universe, Sin and Time” it is supposed continuous broadcasting on the Internet. In my opinion, this would make it possible to transfer the work from the physical world to the digital one, where time would be determined for each viewer separately, depending on the duration and frequency of observation of the art object. This project was not worked out to the end, so I am assuming indirectly to return to it.
Another search for a combination of painting and sculpture was such works:
Wood and nails reflect some kind of beginning for me. The beginning of my culture. Simplicity and primitivism. I searched for the internal structure of objects or events and combined them with a narrative of colour or object. To continue this idea, I brought these lines into nature, but then the idea seemed to me meaningless and I left this direction.
As a result, the constant search, change of materials, objects and ideas made me frustrated. I could not stop at any particular subject and method of work that interests me. I'm not sure that I understood how to keep a balance between healthy research and permanent work.
The Internet and the telephone are what form our vision of the world. The availability of any information on the Internet, its originality or not, the speed of its distribution have the greatest impact on our perception and form our idea of reality.
Already for a long time of great interest to me is a new media. I was looking for the right position of new technologies in our life.
Today, I have found only such a direct indication. But there is great potential for analysis, since telephone, Internet, social networks and new technical capabilities are new tools for the artist.
Therefore, my task will be to pose questions to the existing visual culture using the methods, procedures and techniques of this very culture, through a combination of new and old media. My personal task will be to focus on a topic of interest and to work it out as much as possible.
Bibliography and references
1. Clement Greenberg, Modernist Painting 1960
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