Collage, drawing,
asemic text, visual poetry, painting and precision cutting - this book boasts
most art forms and mediums. Clearly asserting Karen Alekyan’s personal
views on a future state of art, his cover states: “Art will have no geographic
limits, depending on regional, local cultural diversities. It will have no
color, smell, form, weight, shape, direction, timeline and history, because it
will be created Everywhere and Always. Art will be Worldwide - Universal. Art
will be Everywhere and with Everyone. Art will be Absolutely Individual. Final
words: The Art of the future will get rid of social-economic, political,
religious, institutional, state, financial monitoring, the result of which ,
the era of World Modernism will end. The Art Cultural System will no longer be
hierarchical in production and will be free of any kind of business, propaganda
notions which meet the interests of cultural hierarchies. Creative Society will
come instead of a consumer one”.
A Utopian or Dystopian
view? As with most ‘isms’, it depends on your own vantage point. As it is, the
persona of an image is a fragile construction, carrying within it the notion of
change. Systems of representation are in a precarious and constant state of
flux - this world, this time already operates far beyond the visions of
earliest 20th century avant-garde imagination.
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