Cirkla kvadrato

Cirkla Kvadrato (Circular Square in Esperanto) is a work that requires time; It seeks to invite the viewer to observe it and explore it part by part. There is no way to see it in its entirety and capture its entire essence in a single glance. It is a canvas with small canvases inside, each one with different qualities, that want to be observed even with their changing shapes.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

Cirkla Kvadrato is not a complex work, not at all. However, it seeks to ensure that people have to immerse themselves in it for at least five seconds, that they feel obliged to explore it. That by clicking the mouse or touching any letter they may feel more trapped and need more time to see it. Not in relation to the amount of information there is, but in how it is linked. It also seeks to make clear the radical change that the perception of the work can experience simply by transforming straight lines into curved edges. How the image is softened or hardened.

Vera Molnár was my main reference; There was something in the patterns of his works and in those small details that broke the total homogeneity that I found interesting to explore. Something similar happened to me with Michael Noll and Georg Nees, so I tried to integrate a little of each one (mainly in the way the figures were used). Of course I didn’t try to imitate them. In BREA’s text “Redefinition of artistic practices” he talks about the concept of re-presenting. In this he mentions that the object is not intended to represent something else or on the contrary it would lose that autonomy that it claims to have. This happens with my work, I do not seek to “represent” the artists but rather to capture the idea that arose from a possible union of their basic structures. And here I also link this with the text by HEINICH, Natalie “The work beyond the Object”, which talks about the work as a pretext to conceptualize an idea, something immaterial. And in fact I can say that something like that happens with Cirkla Kvadrato. Obviously I do not intend to devalue the work as such, but rather to better understand the idea behind it: based on the references I had from the artists just mentioned, I want to invite the viewer to explore the canvas, to modify it, to enjoy it; I want that need and the interactions with my work to BE the work. In one part of the text Nadia Walravens (French author of the book “THE NOTION OF ORIGINALITY AND CONTEMPORARY WORKS OF ART) is mentioned and I quote what she says: “the concept of the work is the work.” This is what happens with Cirkla Kvadrato. That is the basis of the piece.

Literature

HEINICH, Natalie “La obra más allá del Objeto” (2014)

BREA, José Luis “Redefinición de las prácticas artísticas” (2008)