2024 Enteral Present/Venice

 ETERNAL PRESENT

“We leave, but beauty remains. For we are heading towards the future, and beauty is the eternal present.

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Aesthetic feeling is the counterpart of the instinct of self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.

                                                        Joseph Brodsky

                                                      "Embankment of the     Incurables"

The fragility and vulnerability of human life, its brevity and finiteness are questions that torment a person and everyone is looking for their own answer to them. The consolation in this kind of reflection is beauty. The beauty of nature, art - as a kind of "beauty"

 R. M. Rilke wrote "... Beauty breeds horror ..."

The horror is that Beauty remains in the eternal present, in eternity, and

man gets only a moment.

The installation "Eternal Present" is a monitor inserted into an antique frame and looks like a painting hanging on the wall. On the "picture" you can see, reminiscent of abstraction, a composition of bright spots. A close-up view of a fragment of the natural landscape. At a distance of two steps, this picture should surprise with color and composition. But, from a closer distance, the strange movement that takes place on the screen among these bright spots is recognized and it becomes clear that under the layer of leaves and shells of shrimp, armies of worms move in their eternal movement.

 video " ENTERAL PRESENT"