Opening of the exhibition "Last Beauty"by Viktor Freydenberg, the "Alexander"Gallery
Channel: Ludmila Belova
Date: 2018-04-21

Victor Freydenberg
«Last Beauty» 
Alexander Gallery,Rose.Montenegro
14/04/2018-23/04/2018
Series of paintings «Syntetic Landscapes».
Author's technique. Canvas, acrylic, polymeric resin. 

Water is simultaneously life-giving and destructive, it is an instrument of creation and entropy. 
Water is one of the major powers, that create all the landscapes on earth, macro and micro surfaces; it is the most powerful paint thinner of natural colors of art palette of Earth. It can be said, that water is the main always living artist, that furthermore creates not only magnificent artworks, but also a viewer himself as well as a co-author. 

Humankind initially coming out of water throughout whole evolution and until recent times had practically no impact on the state of the world oceans. And then, dreaming of eternal life, in co-authoring with nature humans create modern polymers. Genius invention, designed to save the living world from plundering of natural resources and to offer a human being new incredible opportunities, polymers itself became a global threat. Today water bodies of whole planet are being plasticized, and along with water our mind too. 

Alas, the ocean is not capable to recycle modern plastic, which is what various disposable packaging is made out of. That packaging, that today both in value and size is confidently competing with the content itself, and sometimes even replaces it. Just like water itself, shining, glossy, glittering and captivating a packaging inevitably appears in the sea, and whole picture of the world changes at once. The purest all of a sudden becomes dirty, the beautiful becomes repulsive. 

Magic glare of plastic wrap, floating in the sea, nowadays alarmingly indicate, how fatal can be overproduction and excessive consumption, especially of non-reusable things, that pollute environment and mind. As a result, with mountains, overloaded garbage bags we block the natural skyline, creating a synthetic landscape. Beautiful and hideous black plastic bag, in which ultimately practically everything lands, including most part of contemporary art, becomes main symbol of today’s civilization.    

Until recently water has been arbitrarily forming landscapes, and now likewise arbitrarily they are loaded with various plastic, the surface tension of water is replaced with tension of polyethylene. If we don’t unpack our mind and don’t refuse from catastrophic excessiveness, then such our «civilization» is inevitably doomed. Perhaps the only thing, that will stay after us on the surface of the planet is the last beauty: the post apocalyptical wrinkles of shining polymers, very similar to waves of living seas.