"It shows absolutely nothing and this so-called 'art' has no place in a church!"
As the commentator on the Instagram post says. There is indeed a nihilism at the heart of modernism Dark forces Alyosha, "Morphogenesis Bioism", 2026, installation of floating sculptures, photos from Ukraine. (with kind support from the Maximilian Vogt gallery, Lustenau)Born in 1974 in Losova, Ukrainian SSR as Olexiy Potupin, sculptor known for his spacious installations, makes strange forms of living things float in the Baroque Church of St. John. It's a texture of gliding elements – color alternating between a fluorescent yellow and a strict black tone. Is Aljosha thus preparing an aesthetics of the future, capable of defying stiff structures? What we see is, in any case, bound by nature and at the same time, completely resolved by her. Each element is understood by the artist as a hypothetical, non-suffering creature - as an expression of synthetic vitality and diversity. With his futuristic creations, Aljosha resists the paradigm of a new creation from the many eradi...
