Video: Between Reality and Abstraction: "Abstract Animals" by Ben Geiger
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The work of artist Ben Geiger blurs the already fine line between art, design and photography. They depict various animals with photographic accuracy, but due to the specifics of the artist's technique, they still look like an almost abstract painting. The cycle of his works is called so - Abstract Animals.
In Geiger's works, the viewer seems to see reality, but only coming to life in the artist's imagination. Therefore, the outlines of wild animals familiar to everyone are colored with strange iridescent tints; some of them seem to have been processed by the hand of a designer, others resemble flat sculptures. The original combination - a realistic outline plus an extremely implausible "filling" - generate an original effect.
It is hardly necessary to be surprised by the fact that so many contemporary artists turn to the creation of "portraits" of all kinds of wild creatures. Regular readers of Kulturologia.ru are already well acquainted with the work of many of them: this concerns, for example, the Dutch experimenter Ropa van Mierlowho creates watercolors reminiscent of "naive art", or a Hong Kong realist Paula Lunga … Unlike Lung, exact adherence to the contours established once and for all by nature does not play a special role for Ben Geiger. “I like to transform reality and turn it into something, maybe even more realistic, which can also be printed in the form of a print,” says the artist, whose games with geometric shapes look extravagant, but nevertheless appropriate.
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