Art: INTROduction AND COVER ART FOR THE XENOSTRUCTURALISM IV CATALOGUE.
Welcome to the forth XENOSTRUCTURALISM catalogue. Which, as you can see is a collection and archive of all my artwork, books, creative concepts to date. The XENOSTRUCTURALISM ethos was created from my 2017 novel “CATACLYSMAL” as a fictional art manifesto, it later evolved into representing all of my conceptual artwork that predates the actual novel. The cover art for the new catalogue is a rawer black and white image of “The Beacon Hypothesis” (A.Glass 2015) artwork that became part of the CATACLYSMAL storyline, which in its final coloured rendering appears on page 18 of this catalogue.
Although some of my art is represented as digital prints, the majority of the work has been framed to be as collectable artwork. As one off pieces, never to be duplicated. So, the art does indeed hold a rarity in its presentation. I do not believe in reproduction, unless my art is showcased in magazine editorials, clothing or as album cover designs. Each piece has its own unique backstory, thus the titles offer a glimpse into its own world and as mentioned in previous introductions to the XENOSTRUCTURALISM catalogues, it is a depicted world of the sliver. A fracture between worlds. An opening to a whole different universe. Yet, it is also up to the viewer to discern the artwork within their own perspective.
“CATACLYSMAL” offered me a chance to explore the melding of science and art, as the story immersed itself into the physics and quantum physics of the universe. With the implication of an extremely advanced Alien civilisation that not only can manipulate Space-time, but the very physics of reality. Therefore redefining the essence of our knowledge of the cosmos, that in its infancy may also herald a myriad of possibilities to explain why we exist within this Universal construct. Art and the imagination offers that contrivance in defying our predicament and allowing the human condition to transcend beyond its confinement. And this is not an attempt at answering the ultimate question; whether life has meaning? But, rather a paradox of realities that can open and settle the mind, without questions or answers.
The art has evolved over the years, shifting between structural deconstruction and the remoulding of architectural concepts to an organic template, with biomechanical abstraction. Although seen as an already achieved artistic discipline, the fusing of living tissue to machinery, at least from an artist’s own perspective, my intention is to give it a renewed angle, to originate the process. By making it new and innovative. And this, is the challenge, as I move forward with these XENOSTRUCTURALISM catalogues.
I conclude this introduction to the new catalogue, with a quote from ‘Ovid, Metamorphoses’:
“Nothing
retains its original form, but Nature, the goddess of all renewal,
keeps altering one shape into another. Nothing at all in the world
can perish, you have to believe me; things merely vary and change
their appearance. What we call birth
is
merely becoming a different entity; what we call death is ceasing to
be the same. Though the parts may possibly shift their position from
here to there, the wholeness in nature is constant.”
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A.Glass 2023
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