Video: From electronics to art. Tibetan mandalas of Leonard Oulian from microcircuits and semiconductors
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Subtle, airy, inexpressibly beautiful Tibetan mandalas, ritual paintings made of colored sand and marble chips, this is an art that pleases not only with the finished result, but also with the creative process of its birth. And given that modern artists use the most unexpected materials to create a mandala, this process can be easily turned into a performance and presented as an independent art project. So, it would be very curious to see how an Italian artist Leonard Oulian draws up its technological mandalas from microcircuits and semiconductors, turning electronics into art. Physicist in the body of a lyricist, Leonard Ulyan, in addition to contemporary art in general and painting in particular, is fond of electronics, innovation and high-tech devices. Since childhood, he was interested in how these devices work, and what they have inside, he did not get tired of wondering how these tiny details make such massive, in comparison, devices work … Therefore, it is not surprising that this interest grew into a deep passion, and all those microcircuits, chips, semiconductors and colored wires hidden from prying eyes in the cases of electronic devices turned into sacred schematic drawings known as mandalas.
Of course, these mandalas differ significantly from traditional ones both in form and in content. They are more like metro schemes in European cities, or drawings of pipelines, underground utilities. They do not have that inspiring mood as in the colorful mandalas of Buddhist monks. However, there is something that makes you look and consider every dash, every detail, follow the interweaving of wires, microcircuits and other details that form the basis of an unusual mandala.
Leonard Ulyan's works are exhibited in art galleries in Great Britain and Italy. You can get acquainted with the artist's work more closely on his author's website.
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