It was a wonderful vernissage @ La Baroque’s COLORE ART GALLERY. Annie is an amazing artist and her work is full of inspiration. The intimacy within each picture makes her art unique and unrepeatable.
I had the pleasure to have Aelin Quan and Mandy with me at the time I took these 2 snapshots of the gallery.
Been walking around and paid a visit to S.I.C. It’s an environment that reminds me Blade Runner and cyborg novels. I’ll return and try to absorve the atmosphere more intensely. Meanwhile, I left a couple of pics I made.
Time is intimately linked to creation myths. It is strange and abstract, so difficult to understand. With it comes the awareness of being in the world, the identity and birth order.Time evolves, indifferent to our desire for domination, and yet psychodynamically we relaunch it in a game of overlapping time, reducible to small dots which are unable to resist to the irreversible linearity of Judeo-Christian tradition. The circularity of astronomical movements walks towards eschatology. A fate only mitigated by recourse to history, that puts us in a regression towards the gods of Greek mythology.
In illo tempore, Chronos, who created himself, joins his partner Ananke (the inevitable) in a spiral. Both embrace the firstborn egg. Ab ovo formed the universe in harmony with the earth, sea and sky. Chronos is confused with the Titan Cronus, the youngest son of Uranus and Gaia. Etymologically different, both embody a cyclical and long time that reduces history to a mere repetition of itself, a movement of mimicry mood. In Greek mythology, Chronos devours his son. Kronos does the same with all newborns, immortalized in the design of a moving image of eternity property.
If the nostalgia of time is incompatible with the Eternal Return, within the fragment of the day the absence of myth empties the concept. In this new conception of time, we loose roundness and linearity in favor of a fixed point absorbent of memories. The story, whose foundations are rooted in the future, insists on winning the presentification, fighting an almost inevitable dilution in the image. In this, they merge past, present and future. The volatile and fleeting pleasure that dissociate us from the time – and that finds its perfect ally in the progress of science – confuses objectivity and mythology. Time lost poetry.
© Rose Borschovski aka Saskia Boddeke
“A work of art, no matter how old and classic, it really is, not just potentially, a work of art when it lives in any individualized experience [...]” (Dewey cit. By Brandi, 2006:2).
Thus, every work of art is recreated, regardless of the medium and material consistency. This aesthetic case, that Cesare Brandi overrides to the physical consistency, acquires in cyberworld an added importance, especially as the ubiquity and deterritorialization relegate the historical dimension of time and place for a plane diffuse and ephemeral.On the other hand, the issue of conservation or restoration of the artwork is excluded by the unchanging nature of its materiality. But does cyberspace raises questions similar to those of organic nature?
If what remains for the work of digital art is a set of binary information and support dependent on a digital protocol, the material consistency of digital art can be multiplied by an infinite number of replicas, as far as storage space allows. Plato’s dialogue Meno reduces the memory to a technique of remembering a given information. This recall techne ”requires a substance or material on which to work and shape [...]” (Caygill, 2006:53). May Cyberspace be a technique to remember from within a global world? Are we seeing the dissolve of the hierarchy associated with the file? (Caygill, 2006).
© Rose Borschovski aka Saskia Boddeke
To the promise of a new art of memory we counterpose the ephemerality, the contingency or the failure of systems. To the reproducibility of the digital work of art we counterpose the spread of false art.
References
Brandi C. (2006). Theory of Restoration. Amadora: Orion.
Caygill, H. (2006). Meno and the Internet: between memory and the file. NADA Journal, 8, 52-63.
Aelin Quan is a cyberartist. Her work captures the atmosphere of Virtual Words. We are presented to a high-quality conceptual work.
Galeria LX (Portucalis, 84,60,22) opened, at 17th September, an exhibition of the artist. Some of Aelin Quan’s artwork can be seen HERE.
Omega Art Gallery’s Opening Vernissage was full of inspired artists showing their creations for the delight of visitors. I was invited by Nathalie et Jean-Marc. It was a wonderful vernissage and I had the chance to meet wonderful people there.
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