Blue Resonance / View of installation
Completed on | 2021 |
Dimensions | 210 x 320 x 150 cm |
Category | Installation, Sculpture |
Unlike the previous circular and spherically composed objects, Maznevski directs us again towards another completely different creative game. The initial perception of the game takes place along a cir- cular line of a simple but illuminated path of the monumental[The building is made of 550 m of ice neon strips, glued on fiberboard with dimensions of 280 cm by 200 cm by 10 cm.] elliptic object Blue resonance, which is conceived completely differently from all the other previous objects. Before we focus more specifically on this work, we shall dwell again in the symbolic references of its morphology. This geometric body has had a similar symbolic meaning in different cultures since ancient times. Except as a cosmic egg, the ellipse was the embodiment of the early universe, a secret source and a guardian of the word, of the mysteries of the cosmic existence, of space and time, of the unity of opposites, etc. Some of the above mentioned symbolic meanings can be recognized in this manually composed light object, in which the artist simultaneously illuminates and hides the source of his game. This monumental painting, due to its intense radiation, above all, can refer to the dance of the primordial light of space where ‘energy, frequency and vibration’ are condensed. These three are sublimed by the genius, Nikola Tesla, in the ‘holy trinity of the universe’ in his life game. Regarding the emanation of this holy trinity, Tesla left the following message to humanity: “Write that Mr. Tesla was playing. He played the whole of his life and enjoyed it … Write that he was a happy man … ”[visit: https://www.osam.rs/tesla-o-energiji-vibraciji-svetlosti-masti/] We assume that this message has also reached our artist, a player of art games who did not only play in this project, but in the previous projects as well.
At this moment we remain at the level of the visible, at Maznevski’s first-born light object which is reduced to a source, to a ‘mirror surface’ in which the light particles return to their original state, i.e. the energy.[Ibid.] Apart from the presence of pulsation of the rhythm of time and the circulation of energy, we can feel the alternating game of presence and absence of the rhythm between the noticeable and the unnoticeable, and the finite and the infinite in space. Only the vibrations and reflection of light, as well as the minimal resonance of the sound frequencies that directly affect the perceptual and auditory field of the spectator remain to emanate from the energy field of the object. The light in the work is perceived as a sound, because the sound, according to Tesla, is transformed into light and color, so that both color and light can be heard. But what remains invisible to perception, but ‘visible’ to the sensory field of the recipients, is the activity of the energy of the electromagnetic waves, which fluctuate and synchronize with the rhythm of the human bodily being. Hence, the resonance of this object, as well as the effect of the electromagnetic waves on the spectators, is related to the substance of the universe whose supreme energy possesses an infinite number of manifestations. But what this object refers to, and what the artist himself thinks and prefers it means, is the analogy and the synchronization with Schumann Resonance.[Schumann’s resonance is a set of frequencies that are at the very top of extremely low electromagnetic frequencies in the electromagnetic field of the earth. It affects all living things whose optimum value is 7.83 Hz, so humans feel best when they are in tune with the planet’s frequencies.] The artist reveals the secret that refers to the creation of this illuminating object.
The impulse for creation coincides with the time of the appearance of a celestial phenomenon which occurs every third year. It is the appearance of the full moon, popularly known as the ‘blue moon’,[There is a full moon every month, but because the lunar cycle and the calendar year are not perfectly synchronized, we get two full moons every three years in the same month.] which, in fact, is not blue, but it has a standard color. To a certain extent, this celestial phenomenon initiated the final choice of the title, because the object itself was being created in a period of time between the appearance of the first blue moon until the appearance of the second blue moon.
Although the scientific attitudes on its color are contradictory, its name still remains. The moon, which is the closest celestial body, and a natural satellite orbiting the elliptical path around our planet, does not emit its own light, but reflects sunlight i.e. the light of the sun is reflected on its surface and that light is reflected on Earth.
The influence of the Moon’s powerful energy has always been an inspiration to astronomers, artists, poets and composers,[It refers to Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata”.] and we can recognize in Maznevski’s object not only a simulation of its elliptical morphology, but the full energy radiation of the vibrating force of light which influences the overall sensitive field of the observers.
By participating in this circular ludic ritual dance by Maznevski, the whole As it is project can be experienced as an initiation ritual. Drawn in the game of the artist’s attractive ‘electromagnetic field’, we saw and heard how all of the works penetrate in each other and flow into the polyphonic sound which continues to resonate in our memory image, regardless of their material, morphological and compositional arrangement.