{"id":794,"date":"2019-11-03T13:59:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T13:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.njartscouncil.org\/?p=794"},"modified":"2023-09-25T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T22:50:00","slug":"artist-silviu-preda-and-his-expression-towards-the-fanatic-consumerism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasminedirectory.com\/blog\/artist-silviu-preda-and-his-expression-towards-the-fanatic-consumerism\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Silviu Preda and His Expression Towards the Fanatic Consumerism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fresh student of the Arts and Design Timisoara University, Silviu Preda is a\u00a0 visual artist working in the western part of Romania.<\/span><\/p>\n

An adept of fashion photography that product photography and fashion design he addresses in his works\u00a0 topics of personal interest arising from his inner frustration and searches.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the latest photographic projects developed by him\u00a0 is called “Dionysus” and is based both on the merits admiration for painting baroque, especially the work of artist Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio, and as a result of personal concern and careful scrutiny of development “microbe” XXI century under the name of consumerism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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While using\u00a0 the canon of Western painting<\/a>, the entire procedure is placed within photographic reinterpretation, covering subjects from Greek mythology, such as “Dionysus” and “Bacchus.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0 title of the project is “Dionysus” occurs as a pun, a play on words that foreground refers to the term “lazy – lazy”, and in the background can be seen as a satire on the “rank” of God, helping ideologically shape of the individual types of the XXI century. Individual consumer television<\/a> series, trying to find a comfort zone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He chooses to treat the whole photography project in the modern portrait or the portrait symbolic both because of his curiosity and propensity to sphere studio photography or product photography, especially in the “fashion” and because of its strong influences from visual artists<\/a> such as Pol Kurucz, Erwin Olaf, Kimiko Yoshida and David LaChappele which assumes both attribute photographer and director on such issues rooted historical, social or religious.<\/span><\/p>\n

His photographic approach takes the form of a triptych, comprising three panels which are intended to illustrate both visually and ideology perspective “fresh” reinterpreted the theme mythological’s “Bacchus” in relation to the idea of \u200b\u200bcombating consumerism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The artist chooses to make a correspondence wide color between the characteristics of “Dionysos” and items of clothing<\/a> or accent window dressing based on the symbolism of color, the artist chooses to make a correspondence wide color between the characteristics of “Dionysos” and items of clothing or accent window dressing, however to place the character visually in an alleged universe dream meant the intrigue and captivate the viewer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The”Kitsch” is cultivated on glossy pages of fashion magazines, culminating in a figuration willing to open “Pandora’s box” a box of obsessions, desires and fears, anxiety searches that are ubiquitous and guiding society characterized by a delirium of color from an aesthetic belonging apparently glamor consumer advertising.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cDionysus\u201d can be described as hyperrealist<\/span>, precious and spinning around the elements\u2019 symbolism.<\/span><\/p>\n

This series of photographs is proposed as a so-called “alarm” on contemporary society that rejects conscious thinking for fanatic consumerism.<\/span><\/p>\n\r\n