The Holy Mushrooms series consists of three figurative biomorphic sculptures of
bright blue color with gold accents, shaped like mushrooms of intricate shape, not
found in nature.
The work materialises images that exist only in human fantasies. The name Holy
Mushrooms refers to the Greek myth of the origin of the world, to the story of
how reality was created from the imagination of the Creator God. As the ancient
Greek Goddess of the Earth, Gaia, being the first generation of Chaos, created all
life in the world.
Borrowing the form of the most ancient organisms on Earth, which reproduce by
spores and recreate themselves, I reflect on the role of the artist-creator, on his
ability to construct his reality. The sculptures have pronounced biomorphic and
anthropomorphic features, the body of the mushroom: caps, legs, lamellae with
spores.
The Holy Mushrooms series is made of fireclay, matte blue glaze and gold. Since
ancient times, the bottomless blue of the sky was considered the abode of higher
powers, a symbol of another eternal world, inextricably linked with divine
incomprehensibility. Similarly, for Yves Klein, blue was an absolute and ideal color,
which was the embodiment of spirituality and infinity. Gold accents on the surface
of ceramic bodies are made with a preparation of real gold, symbolizing spiritual
enlightenment. It is not for nothing that in ancient mythology the first period of
human achievements and the best time in the existence of mankind was called
the Golden Age. Among the Sumerians, lapis lazuli was considered a sacred stone,
and they said that whoever takes lapis lazuli with him takes God with him.
This work is part of a series about the materialisation of images that are born in
allegorical constructions created by man. Objects invite a viewer to look into
himself, to reflect and give free rein to his imagination.
