RAUM

 

The art cycle “Raum” is montages of paintings made by various fragments of materials. The montages of the paintings draw inspiration from the central motives of European funeral ceremony halls, representing certain spaces between life and death. The design of ceremony halls is like theater scenes inspired by baroque ceilings and modernist architecture. Therefore, my artistic expression combines the architecture motives of the past with the elements of the present time. The “Raum” montages of paintings are comes out from the cycle “Enter the Void 2015”, a subject which culminates here under the form of black cypress trees appearing in the wallpaper in my artwork. The relief elements in the picture are stucco parts imitations of marble, made by my hand. The corrugated roofing resembling a black curtain and rippling of the water, as an aesthetic element, keeps the composition of material fragments together. “Raum” means an imaginary hybrid space, emerging in the artist’s mind through associations of personal experience of crossing the borders between live and dead. Those associations are connected to different materials and historical methods which are then assembled systematically and in an orderly manner in montages of paintings with stiff and cold expression slightly reminiscent architecture of Art deco and Baroque.