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Teloglion Foundation of Art / Thessaloniki French Institute / Museum of Byzantine Culture

Artist
Ivan Grubanov
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Afterimages, drawings, 2006 
Afterimages, drawings, 2006 
Afterimages, drawings, 2006 
 
 

 
Afterimages
The first notion that the 'Afterimages' series address is the visual phenomena scientifically referred to by the same name. The 'afterimage' is the visual sensation you get after you've looked at a source of light for a while, the lingering image of the contours of the source stays in your retina for a few moments after you have averted your eyes.

The second important reference for the series are archaeological drawings. When excavations are made, archaeological drawings precisely depict the broken contours of different fragments of the objects found. They describe the contours and the position of different fragments in relation to each other and in relation to the surface and depth of the excavation.

My drawings use photographs as their source, images of different religious monuments located in the Balkans. In an extensive series of attempts, drawing after drawing, they deconstruct the source image to its skeleton. They bare down the essential ideological potency of the image and using the very process of drawing, its own lightness and logic go further into fragmentation and deviation of the image. In such a process the ideological potency of the image is removed from its original context and appears distorted and powerless.

Furthermore, the drawings connect fragments of religious iconography with glimpses of excavations, broken and fragmented objects originating from excavations, distorted and simplified drawings of mass graves. With the element of documentational accuracy and horror removed, they become rhythmic compositions, schemes of decay.

The complete series consists of 29 drawings, taking the viewer on a visual journey as suggested above.
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