Opening Reception
Spinello Projects presents VITRUVIANSLUTS A GRAVITYWELL: PART II, a solo project by Sinisa Kukec.
Kukec seeks to create an installation that invokes the simple, subliminal power of the “primary” as in space time. Through the use of reflection, heat, gravity, color, geometry, and a word who’s ultimate origin is unknown (red, yellow, and blue / square, circle, and triangle / slut). Kukec draws from Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, a work based on the correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry, by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius, who described the human figure as being the principal source of proportion among the Classical orders. Alongside this ideal, Kukec places a word who’s ultimate origin is unknown; sluts or “slut,” which first appeared in Middle English in 1402, with the meaning “a dirty, untidy, or slov- enly woman” (and in time men). However, Kukec refers to the word as ‘non gender (human) greed.’
This new work is a tangent of an ongoing body of work by Kukec called GRAVITYWELL, an investigation of the invisible forces in the universe (whether it be gravity or human ideology) that can influence an experience seemingly confined only to the sense of ones own being.
Kukec harbors a profound curiosity towards gravity, indeterminacy, the elusive nature of consciousness and how their mysterious behaviors affect our place in the universe. Kukec’s work is produced through an intensive studio practice, consistently experimenting with differing materials and methodologies; all the while, maintaining cross-disciplinary interests in applied sciences and philosophy. Kukec, in his own words, ‘cast(s) pataphysical doubt on the insane belief systems of the masses...a ‘bottoms up’ approach, an attempt to reinvent how humans think and feel.’
Exhibition runs through May 9, 2015.
