Video: Mosaic art by Andres Basurto: skulls from shards
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Is broken glass good for anything? But no! Mexican Andrés Basurto uses beer and wine bottles to create original mosaic sculptures from the fragments. What does the Aztec deities have to do with it and are there any hints of ancient Persian poetry in the art of our contemporary mosaics - read on.
After drinking life-giving beer or wine, the artist and sculptor Andres Basurto is in no hurry to throw away the bottles. After all, they can be broken! It will turn out, in general, smalt - an excellent material for mosaics. The shape of the bottles tells us that the craft will come out of it not flat, but voluminous. By carefully connecting the fragments of the future three-dimensional mosaic, which are held on to epoxy resin, Andres Basurto gets another skull from shards.
They say that you can drink again from glass skulls: they do not let water or something stronger. And if in ancient times bowls were made from real human skulls (remember at least the story with Prince Svyatoslav), then Andres Basurto offers us a modern art surrogate, which is for the best.
Why skulls? The thing is that a special mosaic tradition has been developing in Mexico for centuries. The sculptors who created the skulls of the gods in ancient times used rare stones in their work, because they were not mere mortals sculpted. For the gods, you need to especially try. Improving the art of mosaics, the masters strove to demonstrate in their works the divine power of idols. The message of modern glass skulls is different.
Sculptures made from shards of wine and beer bottles remind of the ironic phrase: "Drinking determines consciousness." The skull - the receptacle of the brain - was created from a glass container, fragile, and, moreover, already battered. What thoughts go to an alcoholic with a "box" of broken glass?
However, there is an alternative interpretation, not so explicit and straightforwardly condemning. According to Sufism, a mystical trend that existed in the East, wine in art is only a symbol, and it is interpreted as a source of wisdom. And libation is, accordingly, the process of knowing the truth.
These images from Sufism found their way into Persian poetry, for example. It cannot be said that this was a universal key to the works created in the East. But one should certainly not forget that wine in art is not just an intoxicating drink, but something more.
The skull is the "abode" of the brain, the bottle is the container of wine. Both "fillers" signify wisdom, and therefore the skull and the bottle (so to speak, "container") also act as related objects. So sculptures made of broken glass are a very ingenious find, a fusion of two containers of wisdom, even if Andres Basurto is not familiar with Sufism and was simply honing the art of mosaics.
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