Video: Nils Nova: optical illusion as a field for creativity
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
When we become real fussy in art, and we are no longer surprised by what we see, what we do not see comes to the rescue. Optical illusion - it is on this principle that the Swiss Nils Nova builds his installations, each of whose works is worth taking a close look at before drawing conclusions.
In fact, Niels Nova's installations are just rooms. Many artists use not just a sheet of paper, canvas or plaster for their work, but entire rooms. For example, Heike Weber uses all the colors of the rainbow, resulting in his famous painted rooms. And Erwin Würm, an Austrian artist, created a narrow house for his installation. Nils Nova, like them, thinks big, and his interiors are based on optical illusion, are worthy of being on a par with these masters.
Everything you see in these installations is the handiwork of Nils Nova himself. Every bit of it optical illusion, every photograph and drawing is brought by him. He arranged the objects himself, to be afraid of making the work look spectacular in color and from any angle.
There is something of cubism in these works: on the one hand, something extremely simple, on the other, looking at all this simplicity, one involuntarily thinks about serious things. There is something mysterious in this, as in the very origin of Niels, who was born in El Salvador, but, by the will of fate, has been living in Switzerland since 1981.
Installations and a list of future exhibitions for Nils Nova are available on his website.
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