Twilight of the idols (Casus Nietzsche series) Photograph - Limited Edition of 1

Casus Nietzsche series. Twilight of the idols. Limited edition print #1 of 20. Plaque mounted print. Made in Collaboration with Vitaly Korneev https://sophievital.wordpress.com Creating this image, we resonated with the phrase “twilight of the Idols” or “twilight of the gods”. This piece is tied to the red-line theme of many works by Nietzsche, devoted to departure of the meanings in human-life. Postmodern era is seen as a time of twilight of the absolute values. The gods are dissolved in the twilight, it’s time of their departure. The gods go, suffering from inability to fulfill promises. The clarity and joy of life, typical for the early history of the gods, has been lost. Remains only the shell, almost lifeless, but still moving like a zombie, even dancing, flying through the air, but no longer having internal filling, not giving joy; it does not free a person and does not solve ones problems. A person can only watch as the gods leave their responsibilities and leave a one alone with its problems. Basic tonal relations of face and hair are close to the medieval images, the position of the hands and head also reminiscent of the Middle Ages. Visual reference to the time when religious feeling determined the art, creates dissonance with the basic idea of Nietzsche’s ‘twilight of the idols’. Hair of gold stand out next to black and white face, neck and hands, and can be considered as the “gold of the Rhine” of the “Ring des Nibelungen” by Richard Wagner, written based on the Germanic and Norse mythology. Waves of hair as the waves of the river, the gold of the ancient gods, warriors and dragons. At the same time, we emphasized the helpless hands outstretched to the sides and the head thrown back, to create an image of the dying god, leaving for the world of shadows, leaving its followers in no hope of a super-natural help. In this work, the world of external and eternal guidelines ceases to exist, crumbles to dust and this dust is whipped over the roads, on which our hero goes into the shadow. Modernist geometric shapes crumble to dust as gods dying. Motives of the suicide of the gods are strong in this work and gods, who created space for themselves and their death, are killed by their own tools. Model seems to be “crucified” in the geometrically correct and pure avant-garde figures, and she is “wounded” by these figures and “pierced” by them. The gods were killed by their own rules and this contradiction of their existence in the human world. The ambivalence of the use of polka-dot to show the atomization of postmodern social grounds, spilling the eternal laws of atoms, creating a dust cloud of meanings.

Photography:Color on Other

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:18 W x 27 H x 0.5 D in

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