AEC Interesni Kazki: The Earth is Flat
Mirus Gallery is pleased to start of the new year with a solo exhibition by AEC Interesni Kazki opening January 19, 2018 7-10PM and running through February 10th. The artist will be present at the opening and releasing an exhibition catalog with introduction essay “The Earth is Flat” by Aaron Glasson.
About: This exhibition will feature a range of surrealistic drawings and paintings revolving around the absurdities of life of modern time and technological progress. The works in this exhibition bring us to times of pre-development to modern natural science and technological progress. To the times when Humanity had no tools yet to destroy our own Earth. The times of dark delusions, religious fanaticism and great insights. In this series of artworks, AEC Interesni Kazki mixes ages - past, present and future in absurd looking narratives, trying to create universal time and reality.
“These images come at a time when artificial intelligence threatens to overthrow Gaian intelligence. When we yearn to understand distant planets like Mars while still so few understand the planet they call home. AEC peels back the curtains of dogma and cultural parameters allowing us to see glimpses of our own connectivity. Within the millions of stories, theories, and digital databases here are commonalities. The illusion that we are all separate dissolves. He reminds us to peer into the metaphysical background, not dwell in the spiritual vacuum of more technology.” (The earth is flat, Aaron Glasson)
About the Artist:
Renowned for his striking visual imagery, Aleksei Bordusov aka Aec Interesni Kazki is a Ukrainian street artist whose surrealistic works grace walls across the globe. His bright, intriguing murals—inspired by science, religion, mythology, cosmology, myths and times past—are filled with color, and often accompanied by black and white drawings of his own. Aec’s highly detailed pieces appear like they come from a fairy tale populated by colorful imaginary creatures that often seem to be in motion. The comparison with fairy tale characters is not unintentional as his nickname Interesni Kazki literally means Interesting Fairytales and it also stood as a crew name of an artistic duo composed of Aec and Vladimir Manzhos Waone.
Over the years of artistic work, Aleksei has developed his own technical skills, and moved from stylization to more realistic and anatomic images, focused on colors, their shades and forms. Although he experimented with different techniques, he realized that the traditional paint brush technique gives him more opportunities than others, so today he mainly works with rollers, brushes and acrylic paints. Aec also works with acrylics and brushes on canvases and uses ink liners to do drawings on paper. Some of them he colors with watercolors, being inspired by a technique of old book illustrations of past centuries.
Through his striking artworks, Aec shows an amazing artistic ability to transform abandoned or natural environments into allegorical and figurative artworks without using direct imaginary, so people can understand it free, in their own way, according to their own imagination. He considers a creation of art as “an opportunity to understand mystical reasons of The Universe” as well as to rediscover topics that range from science and history to religion and myths in his own way. Aec’s signature narrative-like style works can be found on walls throughout Europe, as well as beyond, in Australia, USA, Puerto Rico, India, Brazil, and more. He has participated in many street art festivals including Fame Festival in Grottaglie, Italy, Boombarstick in Vodnjan, Croatia, Life Is Beautiful in Las Vegas, USA and WEAArt in Aalborg, Denmark, among others.
Aec Interesni Kazki lives and works in Kiev, Ukraine.
