Propagation
Propagation is a series of painting-installation comprising two large central canvases and 48 small canvases installed in the space surrounding them. It is a historical, social and critical series. It has in its heart a combination of familiar, abstract and subjective images.
The main concept of the series is based on an analysis of the “evil”. Based on our viewpoint, we can obtain different results. When we approach such a subject, our relative position to the subject, depending on our current situation, can lead to the development of a diversity of ideas in the pictorial space. Being ashamed of some kind of repression and its victims, or being an oppressed victim yourself can lead to the creation of different atmospheres in the pictorial space. But when we abstract away from current events and news and tend to study the problem in a historical context, we can obtain realizations of a more universal and fundamental nature. In this form of exploration, the realized work can have a contemporary quality in every epoch. This is what Propagation tends to accomplish.
In Propagation, the question of the “evil” is explored in a historical context. We confront a course and an expansion which seem to be repeated over time.
To handle the conceptual necessities of the series, different methods and processes have been used together. In Propagation, similar frames are spread around a historical element (wings of the statue Victory of Samothrace), where – like the mother of goddesses – the heart of the situation is propagating. Each small canvas completes the puzzle of the narratives of this propagation.
To deal with the conceptual necessities of the series, different methods and processes have been used. Similar frames propagate around the heart of a historical element, i.e. the Winged Victory of Samothrace, – like the mother of goddesses. Each small canvas completes the narrative puzzle of this propagation.
Small canvases are disseminated around the two central ones, in regular intervals. They establish different relations with these two, depending on their relative distance. In all parts of Propagation, the preoccupation about painting is visible. A stain of color destroyed in a frame, next to a familiar narrative; a portrait adjacent to an expressive abstraction: all these participate in the construction of the propagation.
As the propagation advances from the center to the corners, it aims at an opening for the pictorial medium; a medium preserving its potentials of vivid and dynamic developments.
In Propagation, I have tried to analyze human problems in a historical context, using a historical medium. Fragments of a path, of a movement, are visible in the space and create a representation of the whole, like pollens floating in the air. The propagation, with its spatial expansion, tends to be a questioning despair out of a historical determinism.
In the propagation of pollens in the air, it is the wind who decides where each pollen will end up. Each instant, each adventure – image, or frame, is an event; maybe destiny.
You can see the overview of this painting-installation and some details of it below.
An overview of the Propagation installation, 2015-2018
A detail of the central part of the Propagation installation, 2 x (116 x 89 cm)
A detail of the installation of the small canvases of the Propagation installation, 24 x 33 cm each, acrylic on canvas
A detail of the installation of the small canvases of the Propagation installation, 24 x 33 cm each, acrylic on canvas
A detail of the installation of the small canvases of the Propagation installation, 24 x 33 cm each, acrylic on canvas
A detail of the installation of the small canvases of the Propagation installation, 24 x 33 cm, acrylic on canvas
A detail of the installation of the small canvases of the Propagation installation, 24 x 33 cm, acrylic on canvas