A short film, which documents the creation of art as a piece of art itself, Slightly Suprematic is the second installment in the Moving Art sessions. It is based on four time lapses from the identically titled series as a direct art creation exploration, captured during the making of the artworks. It is a 1:1 account of the journey from the blank canvas (or screen in this case), to the finished, ready for print gislée in S, M, L and XL size denominations.
The inspiration behind the original video came from Loui Schwartzberg's Moving Art nature series, but in our case, fundamentally distinct, this is de facto a moving piece of art - creation process in its original pure form.
The music is a theme from a yet unfinished album Genesis 3_14, which was specifically modified to fit the rhythm of the time lapse and slightly rearranged to work with the film sequence. Produced and mastered at the PAA facility, it features a lively piano riff, NY Avatar drum kit and some distinctive vocal percussion. With this dedicated addition to painting creation, shown in time, it practically evolves as a spatially-temporal form of art.
The short is produced in 4K with minimal compression to preserve the rich deep coloration of the artworks. The film premiered at SEEfest LA in June 2020, was semi-finalist at Dumbo NY and official selection at Festival Angaelica and Asti International Film Festival.
It has been my lifelong dream to truly document the creation of art as a piece of art itself.
Since the invention of cinema, art creation fas been filmed from the Impressionism on, wit the tools of the day. By Picasso and Pollock, inventive film making depicted the artist painting behind a glass pane over the lens. The invention digital art media, however, made possible to truly capture the process from beginning to end.
SLIGHTLY SUPREMATIC was born as an evolution of my gislée series with the same title. The variable scale of the artworks lends itself to transition into another media - film. The short is based on four non-edited 4K time lapses, which show the full process of crating a two-dimensional print-ready painting. My art field includes music, so it was only natural to compose and produce the soundtrack to the film as well. The RELATIVITY theme was finely tuned to the beat of the time lapses, thus creating an animated choreography. This, in fact, turns the film into a true one-man show with unlimited attendance possibilities.
As a further example of the artspace continuum theory, I have been developing throughout my career, SLIGHTLY SUPREMATIC bridges the gap between spatial and temporal arts as a philosophical approach, while preserving a balanced level of aesthetics and entertainment at the same time. In other words, documenting the art creation process besoms a piece of art on its own, with broader appeal and audience by also bridging the gap between a documentary and a musical short. I hope it will provoke and inspire further exploration in the fusion of various art forms in space and time.