The "Holy Mushrooms" photo series depicts three figurative biomorphic sculptures (Uranus,
Kronos and Aphrodite) in bright blue color with gold accents, resembling intricately shaped
mushrooms not found in nature
The work materializes images that exist only in human fantasies. Objects invite a viewer to look
into himself, to reflect and give free rein to his imagination.
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" - explained by the artist.
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 the famous French
artist Yves Klein, the 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.
The work is printed on high-quality mother-of-pearl photographic paper using the technique of
plasticization under gloss acrylic glass (3 mm).
