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from Ways to Nowhere : "La Croix du Sud" (limited edition of 10ex) Artwork

juliet vles

Switzerland

Mixed Media, Digital on Paper

Size: 11.7 W x 8.3 H x 0.1 D in

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transCEREBRAL The works of the « transCerebral » cycle are à critical and satirical reflexion on the ambiguous role of the brain in our society. Far from being the simple instrument of rationality it is supposed to be, our brain often acts as undercover agent at the service of our most sordid instincts, sneakily substituting rationality by rationalisation. Metaphor of the schizophrenic condition of human intelligence, these images denounce the alarming discrepancy between our cognitive intelligence and our incapacity to transfer this knowledge into our social life. The transCerebral series turns around two main socio-neurological problems: the lob-sided development of our (very advanced) technical intelligence on the one side and our (very retarded) ethical intelligence on the other, and, secondo; the extent of genetic and educational patterning of our brain and the consequential question about the degree of free thought and decision-making (if any) accorded to the human race. WAYS TO NOWHERE The «ways to nowhere» cycle is part of a series of computer paintings and collages showing imaginary installations in imaginary spaces. They are often created with elements of my own paintings and sculpture, wandered from their original context into new places and new meaning. The title refers to a virtual nowhere-land, home of the stateless and the pariah - a recurrent theme in my visual and written work. The prints are exhibited and sold, signed and numbered, at ten copies each. At the same time, they are intended as project studies for «real time» 3D installations. nowhere will be the place carved in ravaged faces tortured limbs broken memories maimed souls homeland (from The Koda “Katharoi” 1997)

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Mixed Media:Digital on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:10

Size:11.7 W x 8.3 H x 0.1 D in

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Born 1950 in Rotterdam NL. Of french-swiss nationality. Lives and works in the South of France. Essentially an abstract painter and sculptor, whose work is mainly to be found in arte povera and minimal art collections, the artists second area of interest is satirical drawing and collage in a realistic or surrealistic style. ++++++++TRANS'CEREBRAL++++++++The works of the transCerebral series are à critical and satirical reflexion on the ambiguous role of the brain in our society. Far from being the simple instrument of rationality it is supposed to be, our brain often acts as undercover agent at the service of our most sordid instincts, sneakily substituting rationality by rationalisation. Metaphor of the schizophrenic condition of human intelligence, these images denounce the alarming discrepancy between our cognitive intelligence and our incapacity to transfer this knowledge into our social life. On the one hand, we are able to fly to Mars, to perform complex medical operations and to construct skyscrapers, bridges and any amount of lethal weapons. On the other hand, we are unable to master even our most basic instincts, and we seem to be wholly incapable to put our technical intelligence to intelligent, e.g. constructive use. This disparity may well prove the main difficulty in the merging of biological and artificial intelligence. Given the nano-mechanical means, it will doubtlessly be possible to boost our cognitive intelligence. But this operation might at the same time increase the gulf between technical and what we may call evolutionary intelligence - the capacity to use our trained brains to better the conditions of life on our planet - and leave us with even more highly knowledgeable and particularly destructive lunatics.

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