Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it
is out of these images that he interprets life, out of
these processes that he trains himself for life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Birth of Tragedy
1872 p. 15
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Art
Currently on show at
Hiromart Gallery in Tokyo there are some very interesting artworks by New York
based, Croatian born artist Zdravko Toic. These mixed media artworks by Toic
that at times consist of collage, colour and sumi ink, handmade paper or string
take the viewer of voyage of one artist’s aesthetics discoveries from
remembrances.
Human memory is a strange
creature at the best of times and it acts independently from one human to
another and strangely/randomly manifests itself in unity and diversity with all
these other living beings remembrances through time and space.
What kind of patterns evolve from all these exhibited remembrances by various living beings through
time and space with the influence of delay is amazing to say the least. For at
times human remembrances may be displayed as a peaceful gesture, others a lazy
movement or through majestic artworks or smallish playful or poetic colour ink
traces on paper as Toic has achieved so well within this exhibition.
It appears to be true that
all patterns are disconnected in visual arts for the human experience as it
tries to emerge from internal conscious, into an artwork that is understandably so littered with stops and starts due to the way the artist works through time.
What might has been produced by Toic within this exhibition is a very engaging series of artworks representing the engine room of his artistic
praxis being the choices of colour, materials, papers and mark making creating a kind
of aesthetic poetry within the space. So if you're in Tokyo please go and have
a look at the artist’s praxis.
Link to gallery
