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2020
Materials: oil on canvas, gilding
5 см x 100 см
Category: painting
Item Number: 154497
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About the Work
About the Artist

A painting from the "Surrogates" project. The "Surrogates" project traces the impact of virtual reality on various aspects of human existence, examining the large-scale substitution of meanings and images in the modern information world, as if finding visual embodiments of the now-widely used concept of "simulacrum."

According to several French philosophers, such as Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean Baudrillard, we have long been living in a world of simulacra and surrogates, in an era of total simulation, in a world of substitution of concepts and meanings. The world around us is rapidly changing every day. Modern people are increasingly confronted with new "input" perceptions of reality.

The "Russian Fog" project explores the theme of traditions and their influence on cultural codes. Various cultural phenomena, finding new ground, are transformed and strengthened in the new cultural space, sometimes absorbing local traditions, and sometimes transforming them, ultimately giving birth to new cultural meanings. This process can be observed in all areas of art, where so-called "borrowings" are synthesized with traditional experience of sculptural expression, forming a new artistic language.