Video: Madness, vandalism, or is it contemporary art?
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
This article is dedicated to creativity (Vermibus), who lives in Berlin and, traveling across Europe, almost every night goes on a "hunt" in search of new "victims". And it is not at all surprising that only a few can appreciate his works, because they can be deftly compared with shots from films about zombies, where instead of human faces, the viewer is presented with terrible grimaces full of fear and horror …
For most people, it remains a mystery, is the artist sane or does he have some kind of deviation? For stealing advertising posters in the middle of the night, dragging them into your workshop, dousing them with solvent, drawing intricate patterns, turning the faces of models into ugly creatures, and then returning them to their place in an eerily gloomy form is far from a normal activity. But on the other hand, according to the author himself, he is just trying to show society that in fact beauty lies not in the face, but in the look, which always remains sincere, even despite the terrible injuries. So, be that as it may, but what, in fact, it would seem, is vandalism, in the modern world is called art …
Much more eerie and grabbing for the soul frames, collected in a shocking series of photographs called -, subjected to violence from family and friends. And if the work of Vermibus evokes more disgust than respect, then these works make a truly lasting impression, evoking compassion and admiration at the same time. After all, in spite of everything, people who knew grief did not just measure themselves with their fate, but also learned to live in a society that often rejects all those who, in one way or another, are not like them …
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