Author: Lisa Bobkova 
Curator: Kirill Preobrazhensky
 

the Third exhibition of the season 2015/16 is two mediums, which are inseparably linked with each other: statics and dynamics. Graphics beyond the sheet and rushes into space. Point, line, arc − graphical objects exist in constant motion, creating a broken rhythm.

the Author is in a meditative ringing vacuum of emptiness, but this emptiness – a mere optical illusion. Every inch of physical space is filled with metadata – invisible wave radiation. Artist Bobkova Lisa tries to give him the material, by visualizing the invisible world and fitting it in the area of human perception.

Radio, television and now the Internet create the information flow, continuously moving high-speed. This dictates a certain pace of information consumption, to capture and visualize which the diversity is only possible with the help of lines on the plane defined standard coordinate system. Diagrams, graphs, charts – quasi-scientific method of structuring the enormous data flow.

Using paper, bronze and steel, Lisa Bobkov goes further and makes the analysis of information in physical objects, allowing them to capture space and to advertise its existence, to go beyond the plane, to a visual and tangible signal that the artist relays in their specific manner.

the exhibition presents paper graphics by pen and ink; etching on metal plates covered with artificial patina, simulating rust, as well as sculptures made from steel rod.

 

 

Kirill Preobrazhensky, curator:

“this theme first appears in the fine art of the minimalists, after a series of scientific discoveries in the field of physics. Modernist artists explored the mechanism of movement, but the postmodernists went further: their research – metadata, post-cognition. String theory, quantum mechanics, gravitational waves: artists begin to look for a way to display the reach of human perception phenomena. We do not see, hear or feel them, but they – part of everyday reality”.

 

About the artist:

the Lisa Bobkova was born in 1987 in the city of Island, lives and works in Saint-Petersburg. In 2011 graduated spbghpa A. L. Stieglitz, Department of art metal. the Main media with which the artist works: drawing, sculpture, installation.Participant of group exhibitions since 2012.