 © Robert Gligorov: Onice Robert Gligorov Ceres Robert Gligorov (Republic of Macedonia, 1962, lives in Milan), ex-actor and model, skilled illustrator and performer, is one of the most provocative and eclectic artists on the contemporary scene. His means of expression - video and photography, painting and installation - has captured the interest of the public and the critics in 1996. The anxiousness to atonish and to surprise is evident in all of Robert Gligorov's images. Each of his works is constructed to catch the eye and astonish the viewer, seducing an imagination that has already exhausted existing possibilities and constantly needs new stimuli and impulses, continuous crowding out and breaking of everyday boundaries. Faced with a society that is inhibited by a sort of emotional paralysis and accustomed to ever more extreme and sophisticated forms of visual communication, Gligorov chooses to raise the level of shock impact and to complete on their own level with the other stupefying images that crowd our vision, that of the most prejudice-free, appropriation and in real time manipulation of ideas, suggestions and icons in order to maximize the impact. If the absolute of the media universe does not permit going into depth, a practical survival strategy is that of disenchanted or uninhibited superficiality, a complete adhesion to the surface of the work. This is a superficiality which nonetheless implies a certain love of risk, given that the margin one can tread is as thin as the layer of emulsion that records an image and is visible on photographic paper. (Text(extract): Chrisriana Perrella) Ausstellungsdauer: 18.10. - 16.11.2002 Öffnungszeiten: Mi-Sa 14 - 19 Uhr und nach telefonischer Verabredung aeroplastics contemporary Rue Blanche 32 / Blanchestraat B-1060 Brüssel Telefon +32 2 537 22 02 Fax +32 2 537 15 49 E-Mail aeroplastics@brutele.be www.aeroplastics.net |
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