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20/7/2006

Ilja Soskic

Kulturni Centar Bar Galerija Velimir A. Lekovic, Bar

Curated by Anastazija Miranovic

"The sunflower. Heliotrophic Action" - installation site specific, complemented by "fff" drawings, is part of the permanent interactive art project "Traphos" (trafos-chasis), initiated in the first 1980s and actualized by Soskic under specific circumstances and in specific place. It seems that Montenegro/Bar, is Soskic's genius loci which has all the characteristics of the memorial encoding of topography, stored in the memory of growing up. Traphos - "axiom form - forma madre" as "mental nucleus" of the potent autochthon energy in "The Sunflower. Heliotrophic Action" synergizes the idea of the flower which follows the trajectory of the sun through Soskic's placing of the wooden, rough pomegranate poles from Bar (from Soskic's land/estate) and crude sea salt from Ulcinj. Wooden blockheads make radial circle around the beaker of salt which is in the center. Such unique heliocentric object is actually a hymn to the Sun - to the eternal light, hymn to nature - to the eternal circling. Dialectics of the circle - dialectics of the opinion. "Maximum of energy in minimal space".

Why the sunflower cannot teach the man what he is to think/do, how to behave, what to believe in?

Maybe the answer lies in number Tre, in the "triangle of wisdom", how to change from the form of the circle to the triangle form? Soskic offers the answer - simple and easy - through "cosmic intelligence", by the "logic of the totality in the perfect peace". Using the symbolic-semantic model (sunflower, tree, salt) the artist explores the fundamental idea of space/time which is based on the personal experience.

Arts, Politics, Philosophy are the equivalents for the "triangle of wisdom" - Avanguarde, Revolution, Vision, transmuted as the Stain, Formulation, Formula in the Soskic's drawings. Physical presence of the artist in specific time - period of political turbulences and social transmutations/transition, on a clearly determined place- Montenegro - Bar, tells us that Soskic consciously puts into context and studiedly throws himself into a direct engagement, open and prepared for action. What action? He does not know. He supposes. He knows that he has to be present with his creative-living energy exactly now and exactly here. In "Mental diary" he precisely records his philosophical-mathematical explorations. Certain pages, 40 of them, were created here and are being exhibited here in Bar. Continuing with his own discourse he elaborates "entcheidungsproblem" (axiom which calls for the examination of the given values), which has, with the Wittgenstain`s quote ("Mathematical proposition is never the one we need in life but it is the one we need in order to be able to conclude"), become Soskic`s new art ideology.

The process of concluding incites the process of convulsion (conclusion/convulsion). The mental cramp, "intellectual obtuseness" initializes as a reaction "reaction of opposition" to general social crisis, to the loss of values, when the "need/search for the meaning becomes the prerequisite for social survival." (I. Soskic.)

Hilbert`s "theoretical skepticism", Wittgenstain`s tautology (language-language), Ramsey's "visual camp", result in Soskic`s drawings in utterly fascinating game on paper, play with three elements: with formula, formulation and the stain (in Serbian "fleka") - "fff". Where science cannot give answers, because of the absence of exit, and becomes, as Hilbert says "mathematical scribble on paper", Soskic finds answers in art.

Meta-mathematical drawings are done fast, on fax paper which allows for their, also prompt circulation in the world. Accumulation and multiplication of "fff " drawings in succession, creates the impression of watching a film tape which endlessly continues its movement.

Specific linguistic hermetism of Soskic's work explicitly calls for "versed reader". He himself says that his idea for this occasion has been to tell a complex problem in simple terms. Interactive philosophical-artistic game of "fff" drawings with natural-metaphysical elements: space - time - sea salt - solar energy - pomegranate - personal experience - mental recordings, form a unique "tableau-vivant" which is Soskic's art. "I believe that only art as a sunflower moves in compliance with the universal energy" (Ilija Soskic).

ILIJA SOSKIC (1935) is a Rome-based performance and media artist from Yugoslavia. . He had his first solo show, while still a student at Belgrade Art Academy, at the same gallery: Centre for Culture Bar, in 1962. In 1968, Soskic moved to Italy.

Opening on: Saturday 22 July at 9:00 p.m.

Kulturni Centar Bar Galerija Velimir A. Lekovic Setaliste Kralja Nikole 1 - Bar

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