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"I am a native of the Soviet Union in what is currently Ukraine. I enjoyed drawing when I was when I was a kid; I received several awards. Following high school I went on to study economics. However, I was not content with the prospect of a full-time future at the workstation of a boring, dusty office. So I decided to try at art with a serious approach, which eventually brought me to the classes of Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. Then, I was able to become a pupil of Shirin Neshat in Salzburg."
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"Making artwork for me, is an essential process of creating impossible and imagined worlds.
The alien-like appearance, the unnatural images and forms - this is exactly what I enjoy to imagine and visualize. Naturally, during my youth, just like all of us, I began with my surroundings however, I soon became unhappy with the interpretation of the most well-known facts about visuals.
The desire to make every possible variation and artefact with no known origins inspired me to design completely unique universes."
What would you say about your style of art?
"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My day-to-day reflection and quote is:
Bioism or biofuturism represents my endeavor to develop life-like living things and fresh aesthetic for the future of biological life. Bioism can be described as a method to create art pieces that convey the aesthetic possibilities of synthetic biological processes. Bioism attempts to create art that is based on the power of life, diversity and. I view each of my artworks as living things. Bioism extends life to lifeless objects.
Personally, I believe that in the coming years after a biological revolution, we'll use living furniture, dwell in living houses, and travel in space using living stations. The most fascinating thing will be the ability of artists to use living materials, and thus create different forms of living. Artistic expression will gain the sensation of birth. The fantastical could be the reactions of an objects of art to their creator and its surroundings. Art museums of the future may transform into zoological parks and galleries, they could be transformed into biodiversity funds, and art galleries into biological laboratories.
Bioism is a movement to create new and endless forms of life throughout the universe. Paradise engineering can be described as the epitomization of bioethics in new ways...
The manifesto I believe, will never be completed, since I myself am a living process still working on the issue."
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What's the secret to making your installations?
"I try to stay clear of all primitive geometric structures: No straight lines, or none at all if possible. I am chasing after the collision between micro and macro on a regular day basis.
Anything unknown or overly complex is immediately perceived by the human eye as organic or somehow alive. Biology is among the deepest and most complex information architecture in the universe."
Church is a formal place. Do you find it difficult to work within such a place?
"It is based on your own inner expectations, hidden burdens, or the degree of uncertainty you have about your connection to the universe of humanity. Personally, I've got zero knowledge of the concept of time, space and all their wonders. So when I go to a church, I feel as if I'm a child who's exploring the vast and mysterious play area that has some kind of communication function.
It is my goal to show respect towards the art of it However, I also don't overlook its fun side that is talking to a Deity. It's a little like an XXL-style phone booth, where you can talk while trying to understand you could be funny too."
How much do you have control of the creation process and what percentage of the creation process involves biological?
"Controlling chaos can be a difficult venture. My inner ear and eyes are all about to receive the possibility of a new tune or shape, which speaks to me and touches the imagination of my. It's not just a only one-way process in which you act just like an mining machine, finding the most interesting gems and throwing a plethora of uninteresting possibilities in your face. For me, it's not a good idea.
I do combine fascinations and other interests for a not-so-pleasant melody, but also a surprising and unexpected results also. The best part of the work is creating a new universe as you are already imagining what it should look like. There are times when you dream and other times it happens during the night when you are sleeping. However, the fact is that - the more I create my own world, the more joys I experience, and chaos becomes my friend in growing bioism."
Do you enjoy creating, or do you gain something more from it? For instance, the practice of meditation, or communicating with your most vulnerable part?
"Drawing time is contemplation time. Additionally, I draw while discovering myself - what I can do to surprise my own self and how else my universe could be able to surprise me. This involves all possible activities in this enigmatic path. Sometimes, the humor is funny for sure, but sometimes, if I need more adrenalin I head to the outside world and perform an intervention."
What led you towards bioism? What were you experimenting with prior to you made the switch?
"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.
Later I fell in love with landscape drawing, where I could sit in the grass for long periods of time, trying to draw natural movements onto the paper. Then I made several portraits. However, I was dissatisfied and frustrated by the flatness of any human figure that was reproduced (including on photographs and videos), that I stopped. The moment I stopped, the egg's shell fell off and I was revealed as the phoenix (or Godzilla). Which means that I came closer to the mystery of life. What does that mean? It's not to explain the one that is already in place, but to compose an entirely new version. That was the birth day of my bioism and bioethics."
As I perused your IG I was thinking that bioism could be interested in homeless issues and homelessness in LA...
"But there was an opposite story: it was cold in the streets, and lonely people were happy to get any touch from a human, to listen to the Christmas story of the new-born bioism, and to play with little blue baby of it.
The bare poverty of the shores of Hollywood may trigger an entirely different perspective - I have to imagine the philosophical implications of bioism meeting with hypothetical Diogenes in Venice."
To view more of his collection of works and to explore bioism in greater depth, look up the artist's Instagram as well as the latest installation at the Cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.
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