Fury
This series of 15 canvases by the group Deus ExCavator distills a collection of epiphanies and visionary images that have visited the artists over the past decade.
Executed in a traditional painterly style specifically for the Cosmoscow fair—and mimicking classic easel paintings—these objects perfectly mask the artists' numinous experience, rendering the act of making an offering to their single-bucket god a pleasant, comfortable, and mutually beneficial affair for enlightened connoisseurs and collectors.
Thus, while appearing to be mere "works of art," the pieces by Deus ExCavator are designed to recruit new adherents to the cult of the divine Excavator from among the fair's visitors.
«Having been fascinated since childhood by the image of the Excavator as a kind of powerful machine, an external force that combines with and multiplies the power of man, in 2016, both of us, independently of each other, came up with the idea to master the art of excavation and digging and bring to life a childhood dream. Having been born and grown up in the city of Krotik, Heroic Metro Builders, Dostoevsky, Poskrebyshev, Joyce, Kharms and Gogol, Tickling and Scratching, as well as the chickens of Ryaba and Chernushka, we consider it especially symbolic and metaphorical to explore the surrounding world in its deepest dimension – overcoming the thin crust of surface illusions and biting into the essence of its being; therefore, an Excavator, in our understanding, is the most powerful image that we use in our artistic activities. There is no future without excavation!»
Kerim and Petr (Deux ExCavator), who began exhibiting their work in 1989 and have participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions (including those within the framework of the Parazit association), began working together in December 2016 in order to exhaust the phenomenon of digging and all related practices in their joint acts of art.
Deus ExCavator refers to the ancient theatrical term, "deus ex machina", and directly indicates the divine origin and numinous power of the hydraulic Machine-creature. The artists view themselves as devoted priests of the excavator cult; priests and preachers who sing in the glory of their one-bucket god.
They possess tractor driver licenses with the right to meekly operate wheeled excavators with a capacity of up to 110 kW since February 2017, No. 78SK434220 and No. 78SK434219 respectively.
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