Lou Jaworski, AEON 003, 2024

2024

Medium

UV pigment print on stainless steel mesh and aluminum

Dimensions

114 × 152 cm

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-156197

“AEON 001–003” (2024) are UV pigment prints on semi-transparent stainless steel mesh. Depending on the incidence of light, the shine and transparency of the metal mesh intensively stimulate the eye's perceptual mechanisms. Jaworski uses this effect to depict cloud formations that seem to float in the pictorial space like a hologram. “AEON 001–003” thus appears as a digital play of light and shadow, barely tangible, between flat image and expansion into the spatial dimension. The dramatic colors of the clouds against the black background recall the chiaroscuro technique of Italian painting. When viewed from close, the structure of the image appears to be abstract and synthetic, while from a distance it appears as a unified whole. Similarly, a cloud is created when many small particles briefly coalesce into a diffuse body. This fact, along with the 3D-rendered "construction" of the clouds, emphasizes their ephemeral nature as an abstract pictorial idea. In many of his works, Jaworski questions the definition of the traditional concept of the image. Both the cloud motif and the format suggest a landscape which is in the process of dissolution, almost demonstrating a dematerialization of the image-carrying medium.