Transcending the Understanding: female

Monday, June 18, 2012

Saša Drenski: MOLITVA BOGU KAOSA / PRAYER TO THE GOD OF CHAOS

Duality of reality...

This is a depiction of the male and female principles, in their infinite play and mutual chase of one another, in the search and desire of understanding... The merging of the two (especially the sexual kind) is only secondary here - the author focuses more on the feelings based on tenderness, on the observation of the two opposites which do not understand each other, but feel each other instead.

Those two inadvertantly, due to their curiosity and ignorance, begin the cyclical course of events which bring about chaos, which, in time, transforms into an endless source of creative energy. Those are the two extremes that never truly get to know the real nature of the other side, nor the duality of reality in which they exist, and which is defined precisely by male/female principles.

Dualnost stvarnosti…

Ovo je prikaz muškog i ženskog principa, u beskonačnoj igri i natjeravanju, u potrazi i želji da se shvate… Spajanje, (posebice seksualno), ovdje je u drugom planu – autor se više zadržava na osjećaju baziranom na nježnosti, na posmatranju dviju krajnosti koje se ne shvaćaju, ali se osjećaju.

One nehotično, svojom radoznalošću i neznanjem započinju ciklični tijek događaja koji donose kaos što se vremenom transformira u nepresušni izvor stvaralačke energije.

Dvije su to krajnosti koje nikada suštinski ne spoznaju pravu prirodu druge strane i dualnost stvarnosti u kojoj žive, a koja je u potpunosti definirana upravo muško-ženskim principima.

Monday, June 11, 2012

Rahani Packard: TRAKTAT O FEMINIZMU / TRACTATE ON FEMINISM

I have to admit - this artwork, which was submitted to me for review quite a while ago, is among the top 7 of my favourites.
The edgy humor which it radiates is contagious, while the story it tells is actually rather simple - this is the illustration of the contempt towards the generally accepted definitions of a woman is regularly (in the media and otherwise) represented as a mere sexual object - property of a man, without her own voice.
This is the female perspective of the situation - a protest against such society and its perfidious manipulative appendages and institutions (primarily, the fashion industry and the marketing machinery which exploits the female body in the most heinous possible way).
(Suggestion)
An alternative title for this artwork which could convey the message even more clearly: 'Misogyny on the pillar of shame'

Priznati ću - ovaj rad, kojeg sam prilično davno dobio na komentiranje, jedan je od mojih 7 omiljenih.

Britki humor kojim odiše je zarazan, dok je priča koju nosi zapravo prilično jednostavna - ovo je slika prijezira prema općeprihvaćenim definicijama žene koja se redovito (u medijima i uopće) prezentira kao seksualni objekat - vlasništvo muškarca, koje nema pravo glasa.

Ovo je žensko viđenje situacije - protest protiv takvog društva i njegovih perfidnih manipulativnih pipaka - institucija (pri čemu se prvenstveno misli na modnu industriju te marketinšku mašineriju koja u svom radu eksploatira žensko tijelo na najgnjusniji mogući način).

(Prijedlog)

Novi naziv za ovaj uradak koji bi jos jezgrovitije mogao prikazati ovu poruku bio bi: Mizoginija na stubu srama.

"Introduction"

As a consequence of the iconoclastic turmoil that stormed through every area of artistic activity during the past century, we have witnessed drastic transformations of discourse, as well as mutations and multiplication of narratives - which, stripped of their externally imposed 'purpose', have begun to realize fictional, as well as actual roles in bringing deeper affective-cognitive ties to the surface, as well as mercilessly severing them.

Modern art is non-conformist - unrestrained, drunk on freedom, fighting against the slavery under the dictatorship of 'meaning' and is, as such, often declared 'impossible to understand' by those unwilling to tear away the veil of safety from their eyes, the veil which obscures the view into the deeper, intimate spheres of reality, idiosyncratic foundations of every human activity, as well as the primal need to become the creators of the world around us and bravely engrave our individuality in it by way of our creations.

This blog aims to approach the modern art from the place of immense respect that such a feat deserves, and open the minds of the viewers to the endless expanses of hidden layers of meaning invisible to those casting a mere superficial glance at modern art.

Uvodna riječ "Art kritičara":

Kao posljedica ikonoklastičkih previranja na svim umjetničkim poljima u proteklome stoljeću, svjedočili smo drastičnim transformacijama diskursa kao i mutacijama i multiplikacijama narativa, koji su, ogoljeni od eksternalno nametnute 'svrhe', počeli ostvarivati fiktivne kao i stvarne uloge u iznašanju dubljih afektivno-kognitivnih poveznica, kao i kidanju istih.

Moderna umjetnost je nekonformistička, nesputana, opijena slobodom i opire se ropstvu diktature 'shvaćanja' te je kao takva, često proglašavana 'nerazumljivom' od strane onih koji nerado odbacuju veo sigurnosti koji im zapriječuje pogled u dublje, intimne sfere pojavne realnosti, idiosinkratične temelje ljuskog djelovanja kao i praiskonsku potrebu da i sami postanemo tvorci svijeta oko sebe te svoju individualnost hrabro i upečatljivo urežemo u Svijet putem svojih kreacija.

Ovaj blog nastoji modernoj umjetnosti prići sa strane respekta koji tako veliki poduhvat zaslužuje, te otvoriti um slučajnih promatrača prema bespućima skrivenog značenja nevidljivog površnom shvaćanju umjetnosti....