AWB Blog Special Blog Items ASTROArts Blog AstroArtist of the Month - July 2015 : Christiana Kazakou (1 of 4)
- Published: Tuesday, July 07 2015 00:29
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)”
Overall my work explores interconnectedness and the open-ended dialogue between art and science, by combining scientific concepts, laws and theories from different disciplines with an arts practice. Using free association to discover the mirroring of scientific theory and concept with social, formal and physical sciences; including mathematics, architecture, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, astronomy, astrometry and the philosophy of time & space. Both art and science require imagination and original thinking, a sense of inquiry and concern about human nature & society. Whilst science investigates how the world operates, in art this information is interpreted and expressed from a unique individual perspective. My interests lie in abstraction, curiosity and those complexities arising from the inter-relationship between science and art that have the ability to influence perceptions lurking beneath 'known' definitions.
The last years I have developed several projects inspired by astronomy, which have been exhibited in different cultural contexts such as the ‘Cabinets of cosmic wonder’ at the British Library and ‘Distant Evidence’ at the ‘COSMOS’ exhibition at the Hall of Science in New York. The ‘Distant Evidence’ project consists of a drawing and a 3d painting. By exploring the discipline of planetary geology through NASA’s online archive, I was extremely fascinated by the planetary geological mapping and more specifically the surface of the moon. From planetary geology to the photogeologic mapping of the moon; maps figure prominently in exploration, including solar system exploration. This piece embodies scenes of extra-terrestrial environments in my attempt to create an illusive distant territory that challenges the boundaries of the real and the imaginary. Oscillating from observation to interpretation; at the end is there evidence? Regardless our effort to explain the universe, some answers will always remain distant…
The next project was ‘Cabinets of Cosmic Wonder’ which is a mixed media installation of diverse sculptures and drawings. For this project I experimented with ferrofluid; a liquid that becomes strongly magnetized in the presence of a magnetic field. Ferrofluid was invented in 1963 by NASA's Steve Papell as a liquid rocket fuel that could be drawn toward a pump inlet in a weightless environment by applying a magnetic field.
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