Revision DNA by Andrey Gorbunov opens at Erarta Galleries London
London presents
Revision DNA by Andrey Gorbunov. Marking a break with his earlier more
painterly approach to image making, Gorbunov’s new work questions the
relationship that links art and science and our lives with technology,
asking if it is possible to assume that we are dealing with two opposing
factors. On the one hand, the positive and confirmed structure of
scientific knowledge and the ordered binary coding of the internet, and,
on the other, the intuitive nature of art produced by the irrationality
of biological man.
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LONDON.- Erarta
Galleries London presents Revision DNA by Andrey Gorbunov. Marking a
break with his earlier more painterly approach to image making,
Gorbunov’s new work questions the relationship that links art and
science and our lives with technology, asking if it is possible to
assume that we are dealing with two opposing factors. On the one hand,
the positive and confirmed structure of scientific knowledge and the
ordered binary coding of the internet, and, on the other, the intuitive
nature of art produced by the irrationality of biological man.
Where science is to be considered the product of pure rationalism, the
result of procedures amply verified, the search for unequivocal truths,
certain and impossible to confute, Gorbunov asks if this rationalism
translates to the virtual world of the Internet? Are our verifiable
virtual constructs of self more real than our physical bodily being, and
should the Internet be evaluated as a product of mathematics and
science or as an organism growing and evolving under its own initiative?
Observing the monumental canvases of Gorbunov we can immediately and
easily understand his vision of contemporary life and culture. The
virtual world has become an integral part of each of us, similar to a
new dimension influencing our social and biological rhythms. It is
impossible to imagine the world without computer technologies today;
everyday we immerse ourselves more and more deeply as network chats
supersede actual human interaction and our Facebook and Twitter profiles
grow. Not only have our moods, but also our lives, started to depend on
the number of comments and “likes” our virtual egos successfully amass.
Thus, contemporary culture is not a culture divided between ‘ars’ and
‘scientia’, or life and technology, but rather it is conflated into a
‘technoculture’ – a hybrid where diversity and quantity prevails over
genuine identity. Gorbunov adopts a focused vision of the relationship
between art and science, life and virtual life: No longer are we dealing
with opposites in a dialectical vision, a view which appears more than
ever superseded, but with complementary, interacting and intersecting
aspects of a futuristic civilisation.
The Virus paintings that make up the exhibition Revision DNA draw a
parallel between biological and computer viruses, and Gorbunov
highlights the similarities between man and the internet, both living
entities that grow and change daily, and both vulnerable to infections.
Scanning the QR codes in the paintings will reveal information about
notorious computer viruses, but all computer specific terms have been
removed – the affect of these viruses is human. Ironically, QR codes may
become the malicious points of infection for future viruses, as reading
the codes puts the privacy of the user at risk by “attagging” the
identity of user. Though science has recognised the truths of nature, it
had abstained from modifying them for instrumental aims, but in
contemporary technoculture, in genetic engineering and biotechnologies,
the object of scientific research is no longer sacred and untouchable,
the essence of truth, but an object that can be manipulated and
transformed, by means of experimentation by those studying it.
Similarly, in the macrocosm of the Internet, and our engagement with it
and use of it, Gorbunov questions the balance of power – who is using
whom and to what end?
Andrey Gorbunov is a graduate of the Nizhniy Novgorod Art College and
St. Petersburg’s esteemed Mukhina Art Academy, where he now teaches in
monumental and decorative painting departments. Gorbunov has exhibited
extensively throughout Russia and his paintings can be found in private
collections in Russia, the UK and the USA.
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LONDON.- Erarta
Galleries London presents Revision DNA by Andrey Gorbunov. Marking a
break with his earlier more painterly approach to image making,
Gorbunov’s new work questions the relationship that links art and
science and our lives with technology, asking if it is possible to
assume that we are dealing with two opposing factors. On the one hand,
the positive and confirmed structure of scientific knowledge and the
ordered binary coding of the internet, and, on the other, the intuitive
nature of art produced by the irrationality of biological man.
Where science is to be considered the product of pure rationalism, the
result of procedures amply verified, the search for unequivocal truths,
certain and impossible to confute, Gorbunov asks if this rationalism
translates to the virtual world of the Internet? Are our verifiable
virtual constructs of self more real than our physical bodily being, and
should the Internet be evaluated as a product of mathematics and
science or as an organism growing and evolving under its own initiative?
Observing the monumental canvases of Gorbunov we can immediately and
easily understand his vision of contemporary life and culture. The
virtual world has become an integral part of each of us, similar to a
new dimension influencing our social and biological rhythms. It is
impossible to imagine the world without computer technologies today;
everyday we immerse ourselves more and more deeply as network chats
supersede actual human interaction and our Facebook and Twitter profiles
grow. Not only have our moods, but also our lives, started to depend on
the number of comments and “likes” our virtual egos successfully amass.
Thus, contemporary culture is not a culture divided between ‘ars’ and
‘scientia’, or life and technology, but rather it is conflated into a
‘technoculture’ – a hybrid where diversity and quantity prevails over
genuine identity. Gorbunov adopts a focused vision of the relationship
between art and science, life and virtual life: No longer are we dealing
with opposites in a dialectical vision, a view which appears more than
ever superseded, but with complementary, interacting and intersecting
aspects of a futuristic civilisation.
The Virus paintings that make up the exhibition Revision DNA draw a
parallel between biological and computer viruses, and Gorbunov
highlights the similarities between man and the internet, both living
entities that grow and change daily, and both vulnerable to infections.
Scanning the QR codes in the paintings will reveal information about
notorious computer viruses, but all computer specific terms have been
removed – the affect of these viruses is human. Ironically, QR codes may
become the malicious points of infection for future viruses, as reading
the codes puts the privacy of the user at risk by “attagging” the
identity of user. Though science has recognised the truths of nature, it
had abstained from modifying them for instrumental aims, but in
contemporary technoculture, in genetic engineering and biotechnologies,
the object of scientific research is no longer sacred and untouchable,
the essence of truth, but an object that can be manipulated and
transformed, by means of experimentation by those studying it.
Similarly, in the macrocosm of the Internet, and our engagement with it
and use of it, Gorbunov questions the balance of power – who is using
whom and to what end?
Andrey Gorbunov is a graduate of the Nizhniy Novgorod Art College and
St. Petersburg’s esteemed Mukhina Art Academy, where he now teaches in
monumental and decorative painting departments. Gorbunov has exhibited
extensively throughout Russia and his paintings can be found in private
collections in Russia, the UK and the USA.
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