Video: The twelfth dimension in microsculptures by Adalberto Abbate
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
If you believe the legends, there are 11 dimensions in the world, each of which lives its own life, according to its own laws, with its own joys and sorrows. Italian artist Adalberto Abbate discovered a new, twelfth "micro-dimension", created by his own hands. And it so happened that the tiny inhabitants of this dimension have to suffer a lot …
The life of the micro-humans created by Adalberto Abbate is composed of a whole series of small dramas, big accidents, and life's ills. And the one who condemns the "little people" to suffering, looks at what is happening from a bird's eye view of human growth and comes up with more and more adventures for his microsculptures.
Someone will say that the author at one time had to endure a lot of pain or be in a terrible catastrophe, so he transfers his suffering to little people. However, in the biography of Adalberto there is not a single hint of such tragedies. It remains to assume that with the help of his project the artist is trying to find out why the Almighty condemns us, little people, to disasters and cataclysms, allows wars and terror to arise.
Experts, however, argue that the micro-sketches of Adalberto Abbate have a brutally beautiful aesthetics, despite the fact that they are almost always associated with bloody massacre and death …
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