ALIEN REALISM

To me art is the process of becoming transparent, to melt, to become nothing.
From that point on something happens.
When you lose yourself in the nothingness you no longer exist in this reality.
You disappear.

How do you explain something, which carries the essence of another reality? How do you translate it to this reality? What language do you use?

I do not see the paintings I have recently done as abstract, even though they carry such visual characteristics.
We tend to perceive art by its visual qualities. Maybe we should be looking somewhere else. Maybe we should also change the way we speak about things in general, the way we define them. Or do we need definitions?

An artwork is a language, a message. A painting is only a focal point, but not the artwork itself. This is how I perceive it. The work happens in the emptiness between the object and the viewer. The empty space is the work. We should be exploring and talking about that space, which does not hold any physicality.

My role as an artist is only to allow the work to exist, to bring it to this reality. I do not demand anything from it further on. Once it leaves the place where it comes from it exists on its own. It fulfills its own purpose.

I do not work in this reality, world, time...whatever you call it. I exist in it as a visual presence, but I am not there when I work. The border is clear. Transplanting substances from one reality to another is not abstract, it is real. I call it ALIEN REALISM.

I see painting as a very subtle gesture, which strikes you in a second, unnoticeably, but very powerfully. Documenting the process of becoming, of movement from one reality to another requires transparency. How things appear in the physical world, the state in which the substance is not yet physically manifested, but also not completely immaterial is what I am after.

The form itself in its perfect state is not interesting to me. It is already done. It is perfect as it is. However, the processes of birth and death contain something fascinating, due to their plasticity and invisibility. We do not know what is going on behind the scenes, but we can intuitively grasp that it is something intrinsically dynamic, yet undetectable.

There are very fine vibrations in the Universe, unperceivable for most people. I think we need to start noticing their existence. By connecting to them I acknowledge their power and influence over us, humans. I have always done that, since I remember myself. I cannot tell, I cannot describe what I perceive, as it is too complex and too simple at the same time. My only intention is to capture it and deliver it to this reality.

Art in my opinion should be like the moon - not strikingly obvious, to blind you, but strongly pulling you towards itself. You should not understand it by the means of logic or vision. Actually you should not understand it at all. If you do, then it is not art, it is something else.

Art is an energy exchange. It is a collaboration, where many factors are present. I do not work alone. I work in collaboration with invisible forces. If you do not understand my work or way of seeing, it is ok, because I do not understand it either. I only allow it to exist.

When I come back to this reality and look at the work I have done I can only feel it. This intense feeling is what guides me in the right direction. I see a continuous process of movement, of shifting and pulsating energy. The painting appears static, but it is not. A lot is going on in between, where two realities meet. I intuitively know I have managed to record something from another reality.
I feel I have succeeded.

And this is just the beginning.