Transposition of X-ray Media 2014.
On X-Ray images I intervened with acrylic paint. In this way I got transposition between the two media.
Abstract:
During the years 2011 and 2012 I was giving more and more thought to form and content, to finding ways to modernize my work, and was also developing an interest in the inner, spiritual and irrational quality of the materialized works themselves. In that period I was exclusively involved with the sculpture and its manifestation, I intuitively felt that I should get inside it. The outside did not interest me, it seemed too clear and obvious, I was drawn to its inner hidden state. I realized that the sculpture needed to be transposed to another medium, that a method to do it should be found out, and the most effective way to do it should be discovered. I made a figurative series of about thirty small-size sculptures in the combined technique and photographed them with an X-ray device. I was satisfied with the obtained result of the transposition and started exploring the X-ray as a medium in more depth.
Since 2012 I have been continuously dealing with and creating within the X-ray photography as a medium. Therewith I have found a way to present to the observer my interest in the irrational.
The master work consists of two separate parts, both the parts deal with the traditional media of painting and sculpture. Their starting point is in the classical hard media, in which, through the process, and by seeking flexible moments, adaptation takes place, transposing them into the medium of X-ray photography. As a consequence, the classical medium loses its form and meaning and gets transposed into the content and the inner dimension.
In the first stages of the working process, there were plenty of unsuccessful attempts; I analyzed various materials and their density and thickness. I also had to get well acquainted with the medium of X-ray photography, so as to know about its characteristics and possibilities. Not sparing the material I wasted it in various ways until I intuitively acquired acceptable transpositions.
The first part deals with the sculpture as a classical medium, I made gypsum cubes in the minimalist mode, into which were moulded expressive contents from various materials. When they are X-rayed, transposition takes place, the outer form becomes invisible to the observer, and the content accessible.
The starting point of the second part is a painting as a classical hard medium. In this work I made interventions with acrylic colours and markers on X-ray photographs showing parts of the human body. When you view the work traditionally set on a mat it is a picture, and when you place it in space, light pierces it, the air flow moves the X-ray photographs and light permeates through their layers. That is when the pulsation between the two media occurs, when art layers and X-rays overlap, when transposition takes place.
Since 2012 I have been continuously dealing with and creating within the X-ray photography as a medium. Therewith I have found a way to present to the observer my interest in the irrational.
The master work consists of two separate parts, both the parts deal with the traditional media of painting and sculpture. Their starting point is in the classical hard media, in which, through the process, and by seeking flexible moments, adaptation takes place, transposing them into the medium of X-ray photography. As a consequence, the classical medium loses its form and meaning and gets transposed into the content and the inner dimension.
In the first stages of the working process, there were plenty of unsuccessful attempts; I analyzed various materials and their density and thickness. I also had to get well acquainted with the medium of X-ray photography, so as to know about its characteristics and possibilities. Not sparing the material I wasted it in various ways until I intuitively acquired acceptable transpositions.
The first part deals with the sculpture as a classical medium, I made gypsum cubes in the minimalist mode, into which were moulded expressive contents from various materials. When they are X-rayed, transposition takes place, the outer form becomes invisible to the observer, and the content accessible.
The starting point of the second part is a painting as a classical hard medium. In this work I made interventions with acrylic colours and markers on X-ray photographs showing parts of the human body. When you view the work traditionally set on a mat it is a picture, and when you place it in space, light pierces it, the air flow moves the X-ray photographs and light permeates through their layers. That is when the pulsation between the two media occurs, when art layers and X-rays overlap, when transposition takes place.