“Warp renderings”

U ovom novom samostalnom radu, Sergiu Matis istražuje kako su estetizirane slike krajolika iskrivile odnos suvremenog društva prema prirodnom svijetu – od europskih tradicija pejzažnog slikarstva do fotografije, satelitskih snimaka, CGI-ja i virtualne stvarnosti.

„Warp Renderings“ predlaže različite načine pristupa prirodnom okolišu, ponovnim preispitivanjem i istraživanjem ideoloških preokreta kojima je bio izložen u prošlosti. Ta su iskrivljenja preuveličana do točke pucanja, pucanja i iskrivljavanja platna i ekrana te stvaranja pukotina u tijelu, čineći ga propusnim i sposobnim rezonirati s prirodnim elementima koje predstavlja. Možda kroz ovo kršenje tradicija – ovaj konceptualni vandalizam – možemo popraviti i obnoviti našu vezu s prirodom, dopuštajući joj da se vrati na nas, ili barem natrag u plesno tijelo.

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In this new solo work, Sergiu Matis explores how aestheticised images of landscapes have distorted contemporary society’s relationship to the natural world – from European landscape painting traditions to photography, satellite imagery, CGI and virtual reality.
“Warp Renderings” proposes different ways to access the natural environment, by revisiting and investigating the ideological twists that it has been subjected to in the past. These distortions are exaggerated to the point of rupture, cracking and warping the canvas and the screen, and creating fissures in the body, making it permeable and able to resonate with the natural elements it represents. Perhaps through this breaking of traditions – this conceptual vandalism – we can repair and restore our connection with nature, allowing it to spill back at us, or at least, back into the dancing body.