Symbiosis of Three Collections through technical and Concept Ideation

The “Lunar-Solar” collection emphasizes the urge to experience the world in its cosmological
character symbolically. In this manner, within the solar system frames, it shapes directly the
ideological mindset and demands answers, whereas in the “Stone-Metal Age” collection I put an
accent on the mundane capturing it tangibly yet archaically the dimension of the Human and
finally in the last collection “Spike” I take a completely different approach facing the Human
metaphorically with the existential issues and its presence in society or along one historic
continuum. The collections “Lunar-Solar” and “Stone-Metal Age” have a similar manner of
combining and merging the materials. The symbolism in both collections is evident through
merging the materials and their concept ideation. The human in its real form is omitted.

The collection “Spike” opens a new chapter – from a technical perspective, meaning the
material concept (combining different materials) and through the figurative-narrative
representation of the human anatomy.

Along this metaphorical and historic continuum, the main doer and creator is the human, a
mouthpiece I keep on creating my story (concept). These collections together aim to capture the
development of a thought into an idea as a thinking process and in a technical sense; this way of
exhibiting my artwork is yet another mini-retrospective introduction to the wider audience with
my past collections.

“Lunar - Solar”

“Arhanima”(archaic – anime)

Project in the frames of ,,ПАТЕМ“ group

Inspired by the theme „Родилка без TIAsS2“ (Lorándite).

The lorándite is known to possess supernatural elements. It is a crystal with specific solar attributes
and the ram’s horns share the same characteristics. The symbolic meaning of the horns is closely
related to eminence and enhancement. It is a symbol of power. The horns are a reminder of the
importance of the vigor, the gradual creation of endless life and fertility. Hence the artwork
Arhanima is strongly and directly connected with the symbolical core meaning of the materials.

It represents an abstract idea resembling a totem due to the manner it stands on the lower rack. The
metal ring stands for the feminine principle or fertility, whereas the horns are a hint about the solar
attributes of the lorándite

I categorize my artwork Arhanima as the final piece from the “Lunar – Solar” collection, a
mélange composition of three materials: Wood, Metal and Horns.

“Stone - Metal Age”

The need to combine/merge stone and metal together appears as prima causa, the first reason in
the process of creation. The main focus of my interest and most probably the essential part of the
process is the understanding and having a feel for the materials as authentic and genuine medium
of archaic attributes

The artwork is about simplicity in combining, functioning of the two materials as one monolithic
structure – is some cases and their textural synthesis - in other cases. Part of the artwork in this
collection, the metal is primarily hammered in order to obtain an uneven surface allowing
smooth transition from stone to metal, hence achieving an identical form replication of the stone
into metal to turn finally into a different concept.

The distinctive approach and experience these two materials offer, can be sublimed in the
artwork they represent and the different receptive points they have.

“Spike”

The structure of the idea and the theme I develop through this collection, refer to the existential
issues and questions related to the human. The existence is seen through the scope of the esthetic
and ethic perception of the human and the strong desire to ask the question in the right way,
which is in fact the urge for objective truth. This exact question is asked due to the lack of power
and loss of its objective creation. The human is metaphorically hammered as a nail, more aware
than unaware, in the layers of the system, in predetermined emotional values.

The Human as a Spike, hammered. The nail used to rivet, to weld, shaped by force or by accident
along the chronologic continuum throughout history. The human stands as a center, as a manner,
as a tool, as a medium, a bare truth and untruth.

The bronze and the stone as materials slipped into during the creative process. The stone itself
not only is a base for the sculpture, but completes it functionally as an invisible part of the entire
piece, meaning it cannot be separated but integrated as one. The merge between the bronze and
the metal is not permanently fixed (glued or otherwise) but the bronze fits in the stone (joins it).
They work as two different parts. This directly insinuates to the idea conception of the pieces and
their connection and misconnection-the coherence between the Human and the Society.