Yogurt Culture
a virtual exhibition of works from the Yogurt Culture series
In the time of Covid-19 lock-down, Sofia Municipality announced support for online cultural products and this project was one of the approved and realized in about one and a half months.
The full virtual exhibition is represented on a separate website.
An actual exhibition would feature large-format digital prints made with Acrylic-Bond* technology, as well as short video works.
The virtual space for the exhibition corresponds with the real venue of ONE Gallery, Sofia.
The main compositions in the series are created with 3D modeling and simulations of physical forces and phenomena.
The title of the series was inspired by a joke among the inhabitants of a secluded place in Upstate New York, which says: "If you want culture, you have to buy yogurt". This saying, mentioned by Louise Pirotta, a US artist, became the occasion for a small challenge between colleagues living in different countries.
Subsequently, I have developed further the subject with new images, experimenting with various computer applications.
However, aside from the funny beginning, the exhibition refers to those associations, the symbol of which is milk as a primary nutrient and in particular the milk modified by microorganisms. These are the processes of fermentation and transformation, maturation, storage, nutrition, satisfaction of thirst / hunger, feeding with new energy - archetypal states that are essential part of life's dynamics. In the series, the yogurt is placed into the abstract dimensions of sky or space and thus freed from any concreteness, which renders it as a kind of cosmic, mythological substance.
The project for online presentation of the exhibition Yogurt Culture is realized with the support of Sofia Municipality, under the initiative "Solidarity in Culture" #Solidarity_In_Culture ( #Солидарност_В_Културата ).
* Acrylic-Bond is a technology similar to Diasec® for face-mounting of prints on acrylic sheet. The resulting colors are more brilliant and the image sharper than with standard glass and the print is protected against UV light.
The full virtual exhibition is represented on a separate website.
An actual exhibition would feature large-format digital prints made with Acrylic-Bond* technology, as well as short video works.
The virtual space for the exhibition corresponds with the real venue of ONE Gallery, Sofia.
The main compositions in the series are created with 3D modeling and simulations of physical forces and phenomena.
The title of the series was inspired by a joke among the inhabitants of a secluded place in Upstate New York, which says: "If you want culture, you have to buy yogurt". This saying, mentioned by Louise Pirotta, a US artist, became the occasion for a small challenge between colleagues living in different countries.
Subsequently, I have developed further the subject with new images, experimenting with various computer applications.
However, aside from the funny beginning, the exhibition refers to those associations, the symbol of which is milk as a primary nutrient and in particular the milk modified by microorganisms. These are the processes of fermentation and transformation, maturation, storage, nutrition, satisfaction of thirst / hunger, feeding with new energy - archetypal states that are essential part of life's dynamics. In the series, the yogurt is placed into the abstract dimensions of sky or space and thus freed from any concreteness, which renders it as a kind of cosmic, mythological substance.
The project for online presentation of the exhibition Yogurt Culture is realized with the support of Sofia Municipality, under the initiative "Solidarity in Culture" #Solidarity_In_Culture ( #Солидарност_В_Културата ).
* Acrylic-Bond is a technology similar to Diasec® for face-mounting of prints on acrylic sheet. The resulting colors are more brilliant and the image sharper than with standard glass and the print is protected against UV light.
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