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| Written by i j |
| Friday, 15 January 2010 12:56 |
Sometimes while surfing through Internet you discover some really impressive staff, yesterday was one of those days and I found…
Kris Kuksi (sculptor, drawer and illustrator)
When I first saw the first image of Kuksi work I thought “I would love to be lucky enough to have one of those in my house…”
Before getting started I have to say that I’m not an art expert or anything remotely related to that but I will try to give you my personal opinion about his work, that means that you are free to consider it or just throw it to the trash, I won’t be offended.
Kuksi art transport me to a decadent world, in some way I cant avoid thinking that the main part of the scene means much more than a simple well made and decorated steampunk skeleton or animal, I think that all those pieces represent much more complex concepts like humanity itself, the earth, love or luxury.
In lot of cases that concept is surrounded by plenty of other steampunk (you know, steampunk: gears, industry, darkness, contamination, steam engines…) elements and if you check it in detail you will find small human figures that are either constructing the main concept or interacting with it in one way or another.
The full scene brings me the idea of humanity corrupting those concepts and transforming them in aberrations of what they used to be, also they could be rebuilding using modern science what humanity destroyed in the past but getting only a shadow of what it used to be.
In some cases those creations turns against their creators smashing some of the people that participated in its conception.
Well that’s what his works bring to me but I bet any similarity with reality is pure coincidence :P.
Now lets read what the author says about his art (I only read it after writing my analysis)
“Kuksi’s art speaks of a timelessness–potentiality and motion attempting to reach on forever, and yet pessimistically delayed; forced into the stillness of death and eternal sleep. He treats morbidity with a sympathetic touch and symbolizes the paradox of the death of the individual by objective personification of death. There is a fear of this consciousness because it drops in upon us without mercy, and yet there is a need to appeal to it in order to provide a sense of security, however deluded that sense may be. Kuksi’s art warns us that this appeal is irrelevant, and that we should be slow to create a need for it. His themes also teach us that although death may pursue us arbitrarily, we should never neglect to mourn the tremendous loss of individual potential.”
I have little more to say so I leave you with a video created with images of some of his art pieces and a link to his Web site where you will be able to find lot of his art pieces with lot of details, there you will be able to buy a great book with a compilation of his work.
Sincerely don’t miss the opportunity to visit this online gothic museum.
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| Last Updated on Friday, 15 January 2010 13:03 |
