CAUTION DO
NOT ENTER
GIGANTIC INSTALLATION
Geometrical Bricks: mostly
found or everyday life objects.
Core New Art Space Gallery, 900 Santa Fe Dr.,
Denver, October 4-21, 2006. Gallery Hours: Fr 12-10 p.m., Th. & Sat. 12-5 p.m.
I am an installation artist, and a mathematician. In
my art, I use mathematical and every-day life objects in new and surprising
arrangements. Thus my art conveys new ways of viewing our reality and experience.
I arrange my art work in wall and spatial installations that read like pages
of gigantic books of lucid colors.
These geometrical worlds are built with the bricks of colors. They
continually bomb and assault us. It is Dante’s Inferno, in Yellow, Blue,
and of course Red.
Inspired
by Duchamp, the Dada and Surrealistic movements, I claim that my art is about
normality seen as abnormality or abnormality seen as normality.
Thus objects and situations are seen through a different framework,
kaleidoscope, or mirror.
I am
using everyday life objects belonging to both work (mathematics) and personal
life. I also use a great deal of humor irony, and play.
The way I approach my art work is the following. There
are two distinct phases, the ‘Incubation’, and the
‘Installation’ periods. The ‘Incubation Period’
usually lasts up to a year, from the time the show is scheduled to
approximately a week before the show opens. During this period I select a
theme for the show, give the show a provisional title (both the theme and the
title could change with time), gather up ideas (which I usually write down on
paper), collect objects, and set up separate parts of the show in my studio.
Then, in the much more active ‘Installation’ phase, I take to the
gallery all the materials I collected, and build by using the available
space, my art show. I do not necessarily have everything planned out in
advance, I just adapt what I have to the available space, and arrange it
according to my ‘on site and current’ personal situation and
mode.
In this show I also explored, by using the geometrical
patterns drawn with the ‘Caution’ tape the relationship between
art and mathematics. In fact I believe
that art and mathematics are just two faces of the same creative coin and
they are deeply linked at a conceptual level. Mathematics is indeed some kind of
‘art of the mind’. Both art and mathematics express the
structures of our minds and our beings. And with ‘our minds’, in
Buddhist tradition, I mean ourselves, and our world. So I can do mathematics,
or paint, or meditate, and these amount to doing the same thing.
