| Iliana
Jordanov - Once Upon A Time...
Once
upon a time, not that long ago, there was creative pattern. This particular
creation was later borrowed and included into our visual imagination.
Pattern is a broad subject area to investigate, and it may be linked to
many different eras and practices in visual art. Like, for example, the
prehistoric visual religious rituals or the Industrial Revolution in western
culture. Throughout the various stages, pattern was often considered and
widely exploded as a visual messenger or narrator.
Pattern can be depicted in visual practice as a designed image that is
continually repeated, or it may also be presented as a singular motif
that depicts repetitive values. Pattern may allow for artists like myself,
and the viewer, to drift back and forth between the real and the imaginary
world. A world where fantasy, abstract ideas and forms exist and enter
into new dimensional levels of consciousness. This is because for each
individual, pattern represents a unique calculated code and structure.
From all these ideas, I wanted to create a particular setting in my paintings:
where a different imaginary atmosphere may exist and become an almost
dream-like unreality.
The paintings become small windows from where the viewer may enter. They
open up and introduce the two types of patterns. The first one being the
individual repetitive motifs that is being suspended in mid-air is confronted
by the monotone design of the different existing pattern. I also tried
to create a felling of stillness, elegance and a slight play with illusion.
For what is really the real in the imaginary aspects of pattern making?
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