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понеделник, 3 декември 2012 г.

coal and lime, 2012, Sofia



Project " Former stone and wood"

Author George Minchev

"Like water, gas and electricity come from afar in our home with almost imperceptible movement of his hand to serve us, so we will be provided with pictures or a series of tones will appear with a slight movement, almost gesture, and just as quickly leave us "
Paul Valery
Virtually endless possibilities for technical reproduction and sharing of images and speed of exchange of this information in the age of digital technology, bringing new challenges and necessitated some changes in terms of how a person perceives and interacts with the works of contemporary visual art. This caused a shift in our understanding of art, a change in the rules that we use to determine what is and is not art.
The development of digital technology and the rate of exchange in the field, placed in different from a traditional understanding of issues relating to the essential characteristics of art. Issues such as:
 How much is reserved correlation between copy and original in contemporary visual arts in the context of digital technologies which provide opportunities to reproduce and share the images? How much the vast amount of content generated by users in the network affects the professional world of art? How much the modern professional or amateur, is the author holds rights over ideas in his work? How much the rate of exchange of media content influences the way in which viewers communicate with art? Is it vital for art and you do not need it to be such, more time to be contemplated?
"Former stone and wood" project put in the context of the aforementioned cultural situation in which it is used "opposite" of digital technology, technology which is probably known since the dawn of human development. In this project without oxygen burning materials is a technology used to transform and image reproduction.
Without oxygen combustion technology is used in practice in order to change the properties and functions of certain materials. When applying this type of burning on marble, then changes in the crystal lattice, limestone it becomes calcium oxide (CaO), known as quicklime. When this technology is applied to the wood, much of the stored energy through photosynthesis takes. As a result, burning wood turns into charcoal.
  Using the process of oxygen without combustion in the project define the real opportunities in which two typical materials: stone, wood, changing its properties and qualities, transitioning from one state to another. Project explores moments when as a result of this physical transformation, changing the meaning of the material and the object. "Former stone and wood" explores moments in which the subject added simultaneously abandon some of its plastic properties.
Peculiar "prints" made from the material obtained in consequence of oxygen without burning objects of wood and stone - stone former and former trees repeat structures built by the ratio: original - copy pro - amateur idea - property in the context of digital technologies. In this installation technology without burning oxygen and rearranging material replaces digital technology to reproduce and share the images and forces as the author put this work on a topical and exciting way.
Description:
The work may be reproduced, in the following instruction.
Put directly on the floor of the space in which they will be exposed installation, a distance of 200 cm from each other two lime piles, each of which is 5 kg .. With a broom spread lime so as to form two L-shaped set rectangle with approximate size 350 x 250 cm. On one of the rectangles piled large amounts of charcoal, so as to draw the symbol for "infinity" (∞ - symbol that marks infinity in mathematics). On the other rectangle do the same but with lime. The amount of accumulated material on each of the rectangles is large enough to form a pile height of about 30 cm all along the painted characters.
Materials: 30 kg charcoal, lime 100 kg (thick consistency)









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