welcome 2 my webmuseum
PROCESS
Painting mental images as if they are photos
While exploring a mental image our mind jumps from one detail to another. It never sees the whole image. When we paint from memory we reconstruct that image on canvas, so we paint what we know—not what we see... And that's exactly what I don't want to do! I want to paint my mental images as if I observe them right in front of me.
Machine-assisted dreaming
I use immersive gaming technology to summon the vision of a scene I have in my mind. It could be as simple as an object on a plain background, or as complex as a multi-character tableaux set in a virtual landscape.
Digital Realism
I visualise a mental image using digital tools. That image exists somewhere, even if only as bits encoded within electromagnetic fields. The image exists as a digital file and it's now objective reality. I paint that reality. Thus I'm a realist painter.
Impression of digital reality
The final step is to cover my canvas with paint. Since the creation of the image happened off-canvas, I'm free from compositional deliberation. The painting becomes as simple as an impression of a digital image I observe in front of me.
Keeping the randomness random
I distance myself from the importance of the content of an image. As humans are not designed for randomness, we can not resist assigning meaning to things.
Objectifying subjective through the act of painting
We digitise our physical existence to experience and share it through media. But also our lives embody abstractions already established in the digital realm. It's a two-way process. I reflect that process in my work. By turning a digital creation into a physical object I show the duality of contemporary life. Likewise the majority feel that the digital reality influences their perception of art. They use to encounter artworks online and they see them as items on their screens. The screen is reality. The image of an artwork is reality, but the artwork itself is something external to that reality.
The Concept of
Webmuseum
The webmuseum is an abstraction of my practice. It's both a catalogue and an engine for generating new bodies of work.
Each piece has a unique ID regardless of its format, medium, or importance. I upload new artworks daily.
For example in
N = Nem
A = Askovic
W = Work
319898 = A unique ID number
You can filter the catalogue via tags exploring various bodies of work. A tag can reveal unforeseen connections.
For example:
Museological taxonomy liberates the ideas. It gives them equal importance at the time of creation. I use it as a tool for analysing my creative thinking. It helps finding patterns.
Recent Work
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