Nostalgia for the future

Asiya Evgenyevna Konechenkova • Graphics, January 2024, 25×40 cm
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Art form: Graphics
Subject and objects: Landscape, Architecture, Urban landscape
Style of art: Abstractionism
Technique: Pastel
Materials: Cardboard
Date of creation: January 2024
Size: 25×40 cm
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Description of the artwork «Nostalgia for the future»

"Nostalgia for the Future", cardboard, 29x40cm, dry pastel, Jan 2024, Asiya Konechenkova, @wizmarts

The work is part of the "Thinking about the Future" series of works

By shaping thought, we shape the future. It is quite difficult to focus on what is right, good and constructive, when almost from every corner we are frightened with info-horror stories about the end of the world, pandemics, aggression on the part of technological progress in the form of rebellious AI, etc. etc. In thinking about the future, I went through two stages of focus. The first is "2050. Dead Trunks of Blooming Human Cities" - is about potentially beautiful but eerie in its disharmony and brightness, the cities of the future turned into jungles of skyscrapers. Artificial stone trees have grown on the conventional bones of mother nature, which with their neon color mask the falsity and death that they brought to the world. The people who live in them are connected only by electromagnetic waves, which allow them to transmit between themselves zeros and ones of information, which in general is empty, there are no feelings in it, only digital copies of what they once felt. The second, Nostalgia for the Future, is a more tender painting in its semantic and visual interpretation. Reflecting on lightweight structures that reinterpret traditional houses, allowing the entire space of streets and dwellings to be filled with light and surrounding beauty. In between are small high-rises that fit neatly into the overall space and do not dominate, but rather direct the eye upwards, drawing the eye into dreams. People that additionally illuminate the space of the streets with light from their windows feel harmonious, filled with light, feelings and dreams. The streets live and breathe, the space is united and the society feels protected and safe, because there is a shoulder nearby. And there is enough light, because it has become on earth as it is in the sky.

Both paintings are part of an experimental series of works with fluorescent pigments in the dry pastel technique. Filling the background, rather than partially detailing the highlights with fluorescent red, orange and pink, allowed the walls of the houses to be depicted in light lime green in such a way that when the light accents are shifted, the color of the walls of the houses changes in the perceptual range from light mouse gray to light blue-violet. At the same time, the glow of the sun in the background remains saturated, even in low or twilight light conditions.

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