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(1132) Gabriela Dumitrescu - Fall
890
About this artwork
From the page I was given, the headline (Up Above The World So High), the photo and the page number (333) were the elements that inspired me.
Today, I photographed a snippet of graffiti glued onto a house wall. It reads: ”FALL” and obviously fits the given headline nicely. That set off many associations like: Pride comes before a fall; Fall of Man; Danger; Excitement; Fall, the season; Dreams of falling; In German ”Fall” means case/event/issue/instance; Release technique in dance …
The number 3 associates the christian Holy Trinity; Body, mind and soul; Triangles; Fairy tales; Past, present and future; the Tricolore …
Pondering all of this, I took 3 elements: a screenshot from one my Doinas (dance videos) that I made this year, a photo of an apple and a photo of an autumn leaf and mounted each element onto the ”FALL” photo thrice, creating with those elements a Tricolore that´s falling (apart), maybe to assemble in a new, a better way. Humanity is falling this year, from very high up.
This is my call for humbleness.
About Gabriela
In this life, either everything or nothing is meaningful. I believe one has to decide that in order to be able to live. Otherwise, where would the line be and who would draw it? To me, everything has meaning, everything is not only what it is but also has symbolic content, depth, a mystery, a truth.
That’s what I’m after. I want to understand what it all means – life, being human, love… I’m not after minimalism in a strict or formal sense. I would call every piece of work I’ve ever done minimalistic, even my whole way of being/living, in the sense that I always strive to get to the core of whatever I’m doing, diving as deep as I can, getting rid of all that I find unnecessary, simplifying as much as possible, using very simple (technical) means. What comes out of that process sometimes looks minimalistic, sometimes not. I don’t care about that. I care about the piece of work/my words/my actions being as congruent as possible to the underlying truth that I found while diving. My work and my life are full of symbols.
Maybe life itself is a symbol, who knows, maybe I´ll find out some day…
”It´s not about art, or about mere ability. It´s about life, and about finding a language for life. And time and time again its also about that which is not yet art, but perhaps could become art.”
(Pina Bausch)
Link to Gabriela’s Art Aviso profile HERE
Gabriela was provided with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:
Volume 7
Great Thinkers of all Nations-From the ancient Philosophers to the scientists of today
Up above the world so high
From the page I was given, the headline (Up Above The World So High), the photo and the page number (333) were the elements that inspired me.
Today, I photographed a snippet of graffiti glued onto a house wall. It reads: ”FALL” and obviously fits the given headline nicely. That set off many associations like: Pride comes before a fall; Fall of Man; Danger; Excitement; Fall, the season; Dreams of falling; In German ”Fall” means case/event/issue/instance; Release technique in dance …
The number 3 associates the christian Holy Trinity; Body, mind and soul; Triangles; Fairy tales; Past, present and future; the Tricolore …
Pondering all of this, I took 3 elements: a screenshot from one my Doinas (dance videos) that I made this year, a photo of an apple and a photo of an autumn leaf and mounted each element onto the ”FALL” photo thrice, creating with those elements a Tricolore that´s falling (apart), maybe to assemble in a new, a better way. Humanity is falling this year, from very high up.
This is my call for humbleness.
About Gabriela
In this life, either everything or nothing is meaningful. I believe one has to decide that in order to be able to live. Otherwise, where would the line be and who would draw it? To me, everything has meaning, everything is not only what it is but also has symbolic content, depth, a mystery, a truth.
That’s what I’m after. I want to understand what it all means – life, being human, love… I’m not after minimalism in a strict or formal sense. I would call every piece of work I’ve ever done minimalistic, even my whole way of being/living, in the sense that I always strive to get to the core of whatever I’m doing, diving as deep as I can, getting rid of all that I find unnecessary, simplifying as much as possible, using very simple (technical) means. What comes out of that process sometimes looks minimalistic, sometimes not. I don’t care about that. I care about the piece of work/my words/my actions being as congruent as possible to the underlying truth that I found while diving. My work and my life are full of symbols.
Maybe life itself is a symbol, who knows, maybe I´ll find out some day…
”It´s not about art, or about mere ability. It´s about life, and about finding a language for life. And time and time again its also about that which is not yet art, but perhaps could become art.”
(Pina Bausch)
Link to Gabriela’s Art Aviso profile HERE
Gabriela was provided with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:
Volume 7
Great Thinkers of all Nations-From the ancient Philosophers to the scientists of today
Up above the world so high
Artist:
Gabriela DumitrescuMedium:
Digital collage (edition of 5 prints on Hahnemuehle)Dimensions:
A4Price:
890 EUR