SPARTAK DERMENDJIEV

Exhibijion by Spartak Dermendjiev

The columns which support the sky or “The Temple of Venus”

 

Since the dawn of its existence humanity has asked questions.

Who created the world and how was it created? The earth, Sun? Stars? What upholds the earth?

Who created man and how was he created? The plants? What comes after death?

Questions about the creation of the work, man and nature, life and death.

Over the centuries, the answers are different, but the questions, the questions are one and the same.

The longer ago the time, the more the answers approach legends and myths--The more exciting and poetic they become.

But it seems as if there is one question man has forgotten to ask.

Maybe because everyone knows the answer.

Or because through the centuries the answer is one and the same?

Or because there isn’t an answer to this question?

The answer is tied to the sense of life, to hope, to the desire for life.

The answer: What holds up the sky?

I am neither competent enough nor confident enough with words to answer this question!

Therefore I propose a plastic image, a plastic answer

This, my plastic composition (sculptural installation) called “The Columns Which Hold UP the Sky or the Temple of Venus” gives my answer: What holds up the sky.

 

Spartak Dermendjiev 2014