Video: Breakfast Cereal Mosaic by Ryan Alexiev
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Rainbow breakfast cereal mosaics from Ryan Aleksiev - not just another funny pictures, but real works of art filled with meaning. The artist is interested in the influence of consumer culture and technological progress on traditional values and symbols. His work answers the question of how the huge choice given to a modern person shapes his personality.
Artist Ryan Alexiev was born in Los Angeles into a family of Bulgarian immigrants. In 1994, he graduated from the University of California, Department of Arts. During his studies, Ryan established himself as a successful designer and art director. Ryan Aleksiev's first exhibition as an artist was held in the homeland of his parents, in Bulgaria, in the Orchid Gallery of the Sofievsky Cultural Center. After the successful debut, Ryan's work began to be exhibited in galleries in the United States throughout the country. He was invited to lecture at such prestigious institutions as Berkeley and Columbia Universities.
One of Ryan Aleksiev's most interesting projects is The Land of a Million Cereals, an art project dedicated to the freedom of choice of American consumer culture. Cereals were not chosen by chance as the material, because breakfast cereals are an American innovation. According to statistics, they occupy the third place (right after drinks and milk) in popularity among the best-selling products in the United States. The average American supermarket sells about 275 different types dry cereal breakfasts!
About modern life, the artist writes: “In a society where everyone is confident in freedom of choice, it is difficult to swallow the idea that“more”can mean“less.”The limitless options offered by the modern world create the illusion of choice, which in fact only blinds and fences us off from what really makes us happy. This applies to areas such as, for example, friends, family, love. Sadly, people in the modern world begin to treat them like cereals, considers them from a consumer point of view.
We have already written about an unusual mosaic of 300,000 screws from the Albanian artist-record holder Saimir Strati, he got into the Guinness Book of Records as the author of the largest painting of nails. And about the gummy mosaic from Peter Roch, which, by the way, is very similar to the work of Ryan.
Much more breakfast cereal mosaics can be seen on Ryan's website.
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