The chaos of cyberspace. Abstract surrealism
Project
"The chaos of cyberspace. Abstract surrealism"
curator
Iryna Berezhko
idea of Liubov Tokareva,
Bondero, Iryna Berezhko
Gallery LWW (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
On September 28 – October 19, 2013
Bondero / Iryna Berezhko
"Argentina"
120x100 cm, acrylic, oil, pencil on canvas, 2013
The project “The chaos
of cyberspace. Abstract surrealism” is a new vision for the convergence of
abstract art and surrealism. While abstraction indicates a departure from
reality in the depiction of imagery towards nonobjective and
nonrepresentational art, surrealism develops methods for psychic automatism.
Surrealism works with elements not normally found together to produce illogical
and startling effects. We by-turn create an imagery based on a juxtaposition of
two distant realities melting these art movements together.
Nowadays cyberspace is the most significant influence that shapes the modern
mentality. Cyberspace creates a collage of deceptive impressions that
belong to everybody and nobody at once. It seductively makes it possible to be
everywhere at once or to be nobody and nowhere. The world is full of aggressive
images attacking the consciousness and sub-consciousness. The
phantoms of these images settle in our memory leaving behind the string of
tangled emotions. An identity crisis can come from this process. A human being
is unable to separate his own consciousness from the response of a search
engine to the questions he sets. Cyberspace creates an endlessly mutating
abstract puzzle. Renewed automatic text in a non-stop mode.
The convergence of abstract and surrealism becomes a strategy to attain a new
level of emotional integrity avoiding frustration and various forms of escape.
The eye of a human simplifies the reality, removing unnecessary details. It is
possible to conceive of stable and steady abstract forms and at the same time
focus on fleeting images and fantasies of surrealism. The meanings of visual
language begin to mix with the quirky aesthetics of manifold interpretations.
Abstract surrealism for us is an attempt to set new goals and to recognize new
trends in contemporary art.
Liubov
Tokareva "12 days of silence"
110x140cm, acrylic, enamel on canvas, 2012
Igor
Gusev "NLOX-48"
Digital print on canvas, 70x85 cm, 2002
