Messengers of the XXI Century (#273)

In creating this piece, I was inspired by the intersection of technology and destiny. With pencil, graphite, and chalk, I meticulously crafted each element to evoke a sense of wonder and speculation about our future. The spacecrafts and satellite, poised in the vast darkness of space, symbolize our quest for knowledge and the uncharted journeys ahead. This drawing merges the realms of the figurative and surreal, suggesting the boundless possibilities beyond our current understanding. It invites viewers to ponder humanity’s role in the expansive universe.

The aim of this artistic project, entitled “Celestial Pollen”, is to compare the aesthetics of space constructions with the beauty of the living world confronted with weightlessness, as revealed by science and art, through Haeckel’s plates, the work of the Blaschka glassmakers and photographs produced using the electron microscope.
Microscopic in the immensity of the cosmos, like plankton in the depths of the sea, satellites are primary forms in the development of space exploration.
Like microorganisms at the start of an evolutionary chain, they contain the potential for the development of all the higher forms of technological creation. The flight of satellites in zero gravity gives us a glimpse of the new horizons that science and technological engineering will open up.
The blackness of space, like that of the ocean trenches, appeals to the human imagination and awakens the instinct to explore. The age-old dream
ancestral dream of flight mingles with the hope of going beyond the biological limits of the human species, but also beyond the limits of its creative thought.

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DIMENSIONS 50 x 70 cm
DATE 2019
AVAILABILITY Available to purchase. Please feel free to get in touch.
PRICE On demand
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