{"id":517,"date":"2017-12-13T08:37:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T07:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldgallery.eu\/en\/about-me\/"},"modified":"2021-03-29T17:09:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T15:09:31","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oldgallery.eu\/en\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About art and the author"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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In the picture: A. Latos, paintings’ author.<\/p>

\u201eArt is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.\u201d –\u00a0
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About art and the author<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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World with its opportunities and risks \u2013 about paintings in our gallery.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Dante in The Divine Comedy<\/span><\/em> said: \u201cAll hope abandon, ye who enter in!\u201d Those who watch the Author\u2019s works, should also \u201call hope abandon\u201d. <\/span>Not because they are about to see people suffering in hell. <\/span>Simply because what they are about to see, differs from what their eyes got used to seeing in this world; it is not mimesis. <\/span>These works \u2013 as in Dante\u2019s work \u2013 lead into depths of mystery, clean intoxicated<\/span> <\/em>hearts, and soften scant fears.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In the presented works, one may notice the influence of Bergson and a weaker impact of Nietzsche. The influence of the first one is revealed by Author\u2019s attitude\u00a0<\/span><\/em>towards nature. Inseparable nature\u2019s element is a human being, harmonized with its individualistic way of existence. And the nature portrayed here, in the size of the universe, is somewhat still in the phase of continuous creation. Only intuition allows the spectator<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>to get an understanding of the existence\u2019s dynamism showed in this manner, as well as to dig into it by interacting with the work. Every viewer should, however, remember that intuition leads to oversimplifying and generate intellectual laziness. The intuitive approach to perceiving these works does not require references to superhuman power, yet it expects the viewer to go beyond senses and rational mind. Because it is not mind that is in charge here.<\/span><\/p>

The influence of Nietzsche may be noticed in the averseness towards everything that is small, poor, common, ordinary. In the Author\u2019s works, adoration and worship go to a free and independent, yet lonely or even tragic human being. Fear and struggle are demonstrated here as those that can take one\u2019s temporal happiness away. There is also calm, but it is fused with the pressure of waiting for something that is still hidden, uncovered and that may alter the presented scene\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 like a volcanic eruption. One may perceive the calm before the storm. These works beam with the memory of creation, the memory of love, the memory of beauty, and the memory of temporal experience.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The Author\u2019s works do not embellish the old ideas; they show however numerous moments of an intellectual, physical, and spiritual change of the world and human. Are these moments of change, depicted in the paintings, going to last forever? Are they a sneak peek of something close? It is hard to say. But they surely create new myths, desacralizing the old ones.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Approaching contemporary culture from the perspective of a myth seems anachronistic. But the contemporary man lives right there, among the mythical messages, and submits to their subtle determination. The presented works represent the contemporary forms of transfigured myths. If an artist wants to create their own mythology, they thereby enter into the vital space capturing the truth about the world, the people, the causative factors, and the values.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

But then the most important issue becomes this: which community is the artist going to bond to? Artist\u2019s very own mythology creates most often a certain community of closed areas. And here\u2026? On these paintings\u2026? What community is showed\u2026? Or maybe it is an artistic way to express the pervasive cosmic globalization?<\/b><\/span><\/p>

The world showed in these paintings enables us to see a new space of new meanings. That space goes through constant changes, both literal and symbolical. Its interpretation influences the way of existence and of showing humans on the paintings; the way of showing both man and woman. Do these spaces have diagnostic functions of which discovery and a right understanding allow us to comprehend the culture patterns created nowadays? Perhaps; after all, they depict injuries, deformations, screams, revolts, but also delight, beauty, joy, thought. Accomplishing this kind of artistic skill in times of mass culture is not necessarily an easy task. Works collected for this exhibition participate in this task, even if not consciously.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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In the picture: A. Latos, paintings’ author. \u201eArt is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.\u201d –\u00a0Fryderyk Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy Or: Hellenism and Pessimism About art and the author World with its opportunities and …<\/p>\n

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