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"I came from the Soviet Union in what is today Ukraine. I enjoyed drawing when I was a child; I even won several prizes. In high school, I decided to study economics. However, I was not content with the prospect of working full-time at an uninteresting desk in a and dusty workplace. So I decided to try at art with a serious approach, which eventually brought me to the classes that was taught by Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. Then, I was able to become a pupil of Shirin Neshat from Salzburg."
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"Making my art is an important method of creating unimaginable imaginary universes.
The alien-like appearance, the unnatural images and forms - this is exactly what I enjoy to visualize and think about. In my youth, just like everybody else, I was drawn to all the things that surrounded me however, I soon became unhappy with the interpretation of known visual information.
The desire to make any variation that is possible and artefacts that are not known to me inspired me to compose utterly new universes."
What would you say about your art style?
"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My day-to-day reflection and quote is:
Bioism , also known as biofuturism, is my effort to design new living forms and a new aesthetics of future organic life. Bioism is an approach to create art pieces that express visual possibilities of synthetic biology. Bioism is an effort to produce art based on the power of life, diversity and. I regard each of my artworks as an actual living thing. Bioism brings life to lifeless subject matter.
Personally, I think that in the future, in the wake of a biological revolution, we'll be using living furniture, reside in live-in homes, and even travel to space via living stations. However, the most interesting feature will be the capability of artists to use living materials, and thus create different forms of living. Artistic expression will gain an actual sense of birth. It could be a reaction of the art object to its creator and surroundings. Future art museums might transform into zoological gardens galleries that could become new diversity funds, ateliers into biology labs.
Bioism seeks to promote different and inexhaustible forms of life throughout the world. Paradise engineering is the epitomization of bioethics in new ways...
The manifesto I believe, will never be complete, because I'm a biochemical process still working on the issue."
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What is the key in making your installation?
"I try to stay clear of any primitive geometrics: none of the straight lines or the absence of lines, as far as is possible. I'm trying to find the intersection between both macro and micro a regular routine.
Any thing that is not understood or extremely complex will be immediately noticed by our eyes as living or organic. Biology is the deepest and most complicated information structure of the world."
A church can be a formal setting. Do you find it difficult to work within such a place?
"It depends on your personal beliefs, fears, or how uncertain you are in your understanding of your place in the universe of humanity. Personally, I have almost none of the knowledge about time, space and its wonders. When I am in the church, I am like a child with a curiosity in an enormous and bizarre playground that is a part or communication capability.
I strive to be kind toward the art of it however, I don't ignore its fun aspect and the aspect of speaking to the Deity. It's similar to an XXL telephone booth where while talking or trying to hear you can also laugh."
What is your level of control of the creation process and what percentage of it is biomimetic?
"Controlling chaos can be a difficult venture. My inner ear and eye will be listening to the possibility of a new tune, to find unknown shape, which speaks to me and touches my imagination nerve. It's not just a an all-in-one process, where you are mining machines: collecting lucky gemstones and dumping a lot of trash of not interesting possibilities to your back. Not for me.
I do combine fascinations along with other possibilities minor in order to create not just a pleasant tune, but kind of surprising and unexpected results also. One of the most rewarding aspects of this work is creating a new universe while you already feel how the final product should appear. Sometime you are in a dream; sometimes it comes in the night while sleeping. The fact remains that the more I make, the more blisses I am able to experience. Chaos becomes my friend in growing bioism."
Do you enjoy creating, or do you gain something more from it? For instance, meditation or communication with your most vulnerable part?
"Drawing time is contemplation time. Also, I create by observing myself to see the extent to which I might amaze myself, and also how much the universe can be able to surprise me. This involves every possible activity on this strange pathway. Sometimes it gets funny, for sure, but sometimes, if I need more adrenalin I head to the outside world and perform an an."
What was your path towards bioism? How did you get started? it?
"The first steps were rather normal: I remember how happy I was about my half-drawing-half-painting of the tractor in the field for which I was praised in kindergarten.
In the following years, I was infatuated with landscape drawing, where I could sit in the grass for long periods of time, trying to draw motions of nature on the board. After that I even made several portraits. However, I was so dissatisfied, frustrated by the flatness of any reproduced human face (including photos and video) and I halted. Exactly at that moment the egg's shell fell off and I was revealed like the phoenix (or Godzilla). This means I came closer to the secret of life. What does that mean? It's not to explain the current one however, it is to write an entirely new version. This was the day I began to create of bioethics and my bioism."
While browsing your IG I was thinking that bioism might be interested in homelessness within LA...
"But there was an opposite narrative that it was freezing in the streets, and lonely people were happy to get every human touch, be able to hear the Christmas tale of the newborn bioism and play with the little blue children of it.
The bare poverty of the beach of the Hollywood might cause by me an entirely different perspective in my mind. I need to consider the philosophical aspects of bioism in a fictional Diogenes of Venice."
To view more of his body of work and explore bioism in greater depth, visit the artist's Instagram as well as the latest installation at The cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.
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