Materials: mixed media.
Date: 2020.
“Surfaces” series refers to Modern art era, 60s-70s. The artworks invite the viewer to see, consider, find new ideals, new beauty in everyday materials, household items, which we can encounter both at home, in the kitchen, and in the trash when we throw out the trash.
The main idea of “Surfaces” series is to cover the entire surface with different materials, sometimes with improvised means like packages, tapes or paper traces. Combining various materials and techniques, you get the covered, formed surface at the end.
Robert Rauschenberg dealt with a similar issue, for instance, he created series of works, in which he used newspapers, rags, just general rubbish. Unlike Rauschenberg, my works have a significant difference: if Rauschenberg formed his surface on the canvas, added something on it and, in the base, worked with already existing surface, which he used like a basis, then in my works the surface get created with decomposed, unbound parts, that form the artwork only after formation.
A plastic netting refers to modern art, where netting itself was used frequently in general, and, in particular, used in Piet Mondrian works, described in Rosalind Krauss texts.