Many people assume that if contemporary art deals with biblical themes, the artist must be a believer or a religious person. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Bible is in fact an essential point of reference for anyone working with the language of abstraction—not because of religion itself, but because of its unique …
The Bible as a Chronicle of the Evolution of Abstract Thought Read More »
Postmodernism assumes that there is no longer a center. Every form of expression becomes one of many possible versions of reality, and truth is fragmented into context, perspective, and irony. In this world, language ceases to describe the world and becomes a tool for its constant deconstruction. What was meant to convey meaning transforms into …
Cracks in Language: Tension Between Conscious Abstraction and Postmodernism Read More »
Twentieth-century abstraction became one of the most significant breakthroughs in the history of art, revolutionizing not only the way the world is represented but also the understanding of the very function of an artwork. Its emergence marked a break with figuration and realistic depiction, introducing a more spiritual and intuitive approach to visual form. Modernist …
The Limit Beyond Gesture – the Conflict Between Conscious Abstraction and Modernism Read More »
The history of 20th-century art shows that abstraction was not merely a search for new visual forms, but an attempt to redefine the role of the image within culture. Modernists—Kandinsky, Mondrian, Malevich, and Hilma af Klint—believed that form could express the invisible: spirituality, order, and the universal laws of the cosmos. Their works were not …
Interpenetrating Ideas – Modernism and Conscious Abstraction Read More »
A photographer and an artist-photographer represent two fundamentally different approaches to photography, sharing nothing but the camera itself. A photographer is, in essence, a craftsman or hobbyist, merely the author of images. An artist, by contrast, is a creator guided by principles of visual art, producing that which resonates within the depths of the soul. …
Conscious Abstraction may be understood not merely as a language of art, but also as a methodological instrument for the exploration of cognitive structures. By virtue of its formal premises and conceptual orientation, it initiates a process in which both the artist and the viewer enter into an interactive dialogue with their own modes of …
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This artistic project, rooted in the Book of Genesis and the Decalogue, approaches the Bible not solely as a religious text, but primarily as a structural testimony to the emergence and evolution of human abstract thought. Employing abstract photography through the technique of light painting, the project seeks to visually translate the archetypal and universal …
The project “The Covenant” constitutes an interpretative response, articulated through the visual language of Conscious Abstraction, to Stefan Gierowski’s abstract cycle The Ten Commandments. As part of this engagement, I have introduced a Prologue and an Eleventh Commandment, authored by Marian Turski—a Holocaust survivor and moral witness—whose contribution expands the ethical discourse beyond its canonical …