Bread

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2007-2012

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If we analyze the "bread" series from the standpoint of the primary base component, the most important thing in them is the texture of bread itself. What is important is the chaos of forms, through holes, cavities, cracks that occur at the surface of slice. Texture of bread represents the concept of pure chaos. There isn't any visible point in the bread, which would be similar to another. Here the main role plays not the problem of texture as it is with its "beaty" and tactile "sensuality", but a facture expressing the idea of CHAOS. For example, Jackson Pollock was creating chaos in his works by dripping. His work (its important component) was to create an ABSOLUTELY chaotic NONFIGURATIVE image. Texture of bread originally contains this chaos. Therefore, the next step is to challenge it. The texture is duplicated, repeated (often on the central vertical axis of symmetry), what creates a "miraculous" effect - inimitable, in principle, chaotic matter is thoroughly and precisely repeated. From one point of view, this repetition "hangs" the concept of chaos. From the other point, it places the object to the category of heraldic form, which usually has a central vertical axis of symmetry. Symmetry creates a METAPHOR (an image) of an artwork as a self-contained visual object, which is creating inside its own forms its own borders - a frame.

And this is an ULTIMATE statement. In order this statement would be intelligible and persuasive, it is necessary to choose adequate for concrete aims manufacturing. If in the middle of the twentieth century, artists themselves was thinking up with technologies (it took most of the time), now technologies are developing independently. Artist's part is to select the most accurate one (of course, there may be some partial improvement for specific task), which can clearly reveal the basic meanings of the art object. In this case, a necessary technology must be able to reproduce the texture of the bread and to do it correctly N times.

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A. Osmolovsky

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