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"I am a native of the Soviet Union in what is now called Ukraine. I was a huge fan of drawing as a child; I even had a few prizes. After high-school I went on to study economics, but did not feel content with the idea of having a career that was full-time the desk of a dull, dusty office. So I decided to try the art field seriously. This resulted in me enrolling in the class that was taught by Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. Later, I went on to become a pupil of Shirin Neshat from Salzburg."
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"Making artwork for me, is a significant procedure of creating unbelievable imaginary worlds.
The alien-like appearance, the unnatural feelings and shapes - that is what I love to visualize and think about. Naturally, during my early years, like everyone, I started with my surroundings however, I soon became unsatisfied by the way I interpreted known visual information.
The desire to make all deviations imaginable and artefacts of unknown origin motivated me to create completely new universes."
What is your style of art?
"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My everyday thought and declaration is:
Biofuturism or Bioism is an effort to design bio-inspired living organisms and modern aesthetic for future organic life. Bioism is an approach to develop art objects which express visual possibilities of synthetic biological processes. Bioism attempts to produce art based on vitality, multiplicity and complexity. Each work as a living being. Bioism gives life to dead objects.
Personally, I believe that in the future, in the wake of an evolutionary revolution, we will use living furniture, live in live-in homes, and even travel to space via living stations. But the most exciting aspect will be the capacity for artists to create living substances, thereby constructing different forms of living. Artistic expression will gain the feeling of being born. It could be a reaction of the objects of art to their creator and its surroundings. The art museums of the future may transform into zoological parks, galleries into new life diversification funds, and ateliers to bio-labs.
Bioism aims to spread different and inexhaustible types of life across the world. Paradise engineering is an advance in bioethics...
This manifesto, as I see it, can never be finished, as I am myself a biological process still working on the issue."
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What's the secret for you to create your own installations?
"I try to stay clear of any primitive geometrics: none of the straight lines or the absence of lines, as far as is possible. I am chasing after the intersection between the macro and micro on a daily routine.
Any thing that is not understood or extremely complicated is instantly recognized by our inner eye as living or organic. Biology is among the deepest and most complex information architecture of the world."
Church is a formal place. Do you find it difficult to work in such space?
"It is based on your own inner desires, your hidden burdens or the degree of uncertainty you have in your understanding of your place in the human universe. Personally, I've got zero knowledge of space, time and their marvels. So when I go to a church, I feel like a child with a curiosity in an enormous and bizarre playground that is a part of communication purpose.
I strive to be kind toward it as an artist however, I don't forget about its entertainment side, the part about speaking to the Deity. It's a little like an XXL-style phone booth, where you can talk while trying to understand you could be funny too."
How much are you in control of the creation process and how much of it is biological?
"Controlling chaos is a challenging endeavor. My inner ear and eyes will be listening to the possible unknown tune or form, that speaks to me and reaches my imagination nerve. It's not just a one way process where you act just like mining machines: taking lucky gems of fascinations and throwing hell of waste of uninteresting possibilities behind your back. For me, it's not a good idea.
I do combine fascinations and other interests for a not-so-pleasant tune, but kind of surprising and unexpected results as well. The best part of my work is the ability to compose new world as you are already imagining what the final product should appear. There are times when you dream and other times it happens during the night when you are sleeping. However, the fact is that - the more I create, the more blisses I get, where chaos can be my companion in the growth of bioism."
Are you a creative person who enjoys it, or do you get something else out of it, like mediation or reaching out to your most vulnerable part?
"Drawing time is contemplation time. In addition, I draw by observing myself to see the extent to which I might amaze myself, and also how much the universe might be able to surprise me. This involves all possible activities along this unusual path. Sometimes, it's funny in fact, sometimes I need more adrenalin I venture to the outside world and perform an an."
What was your path to bioism? What did you try before it?
"The first steps were rather normal: I remember how happy I was about my half-drawing-half-painting of the tractor in the field for which I was praised in kindergarten.
In the following years, I was infatuated by drawing landscapes where I could sit in the grass for long periods of time, trying to draw nature's movements on the cardboard. Then I made several portraits. However, I was so dissatisfied, frustrated by the flatness of human faces that were reproduced (including photos and video), that I stopped. At that point, the shell of my egg was broken and I emerged as the phoenix (or Godzilla). This means I became closer to the truth of existence. What exactly is it? It is not to describe the one that is already in place and to create the new one. This was the day I began to create of bioethics and my bioism."
As I perused your IG I was thinking that bioism could be interested in the issue of homelessness and homelessness in LA...
"But it was a contrary story It was cold in the streets, and lonely people where happy to receive any touch from a human, to be able to hear the Christmas tale of new born bioism as well as to play with the tiny blue baby of it.
The bare poverty of the shores of Hollywood might cause by me a totally different approach and I'm forced to think of the philosophical aspects of bioism interacting with a hypothetical Diogenes from Venice."
To view more of his body of work and dive deeper into bioism check out his Instagram and his current installation in the Cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.