Video: Mockery of modern culture in sculptures by Jiri Geller
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Despite the sheer scale of the art world, Finnish sculptors are rare. Especially Finnish sculptors-provocateurs who challenge society and modern ideas about culture. Jiri Geller, who calls himself an outsider and punk rocker, is perhaps one of a kind.
Despite all his nihilism and radical sentiments, Jiri Geller is one of the few Finnish artists who remained faithful to Finnish aesthetics and traditions, and at the same time became his own within the framework of post-modernism, with his own unique style.
His sculptures are, in principle, a quite expected reaction of a misanthrope to modern culture … Such symbols of modern society as the console's joystick and Mickey Mouse, in particular, are ridiculed and attacked. Jiri Geller shows how dark the world can be, and how hard the truth can really be.
Negative developmental reactions modern culture - a topic quite loved by creative people of all stripes. Among the illustrators, this is Jeff Sopho and his gloomy future of all the colors of the rainbow, the Japanese Ryohei Hase and his idea of what is really going on in the soul of a person, among the sculptors, for example, Jason Soule and his dark sculptures. Jiri Geller is not inferior to him, some of the titles of the works are worth: the staircase leading to the sky, but suddenly breaking off, is called “God says no”, and many of Donald Duck's profiles are included in the “Darkness” cycle.
Jiri Geller strives to prove that in modern culture, what seems solid and durable is actually easy to destroy or melt, just like ice cream melts on a hot day (melted ice cream is also one of his sculptures, called “disappointment”). This is pessimism, but within the framework of Jiri's work, it all looks so impressive that it seems realism. Moreover, all his works together create one gloomy picture. Here are balloons towering over the skull of a dead boy next to a staircase to heaven that leads to emptiness, and a burning gamepad awaits at home, which cannot be touched, which cannot be played. There's something about it.
The cycle of works of the nihilist Jiri Geller is quite fully presented on his website.
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