Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 78.7x39.4in
About this artwork
The word “Genesis” contains a clash of two themes – science and religion. The project is built on the contradiction of these themes. In the biblical interpretation, man is created in the image and likeness of God. But scientists say that at the genetic level, a person is 40% a worm, 60% a fly, 80% a mouse, 95% a pig, 98% a chimpanzee; the blood of chimpanzees and humans is identical; in terms of protein composition, we are the closest relatives of…
crocodiles, etc. It turns out that if we are created in the image and likeness of God, then our gods are animals? Or are animals also created in the image and likeness of God? And our God becomes, not anthropomorphic, but anthropozoomorphic, with many faces and images? Perhaps the primitives, with their cult of animals, totemism, zoomorphism, etc., were closer to understanding the truth? Thus, we are moving away from monotheism and returning to the archaic, to paganism.
Alexander Nekrashevich
Poland
Credentials
- Established Artist
- Works on commission
Alexander Nekrashevich, a graduate of the Republican Art School and the Belarusian Academy of Arts, masterfully engages with traditional media like oil on canvas, drawing on paper, and airbrush on aluminium. His techniques blend a playful postmodernist approach with the fluctuating aesthetics of metamodernism, oscillating between irony, sincerity, eclecticism, and purity. His art invites viewers into a thrilling emotional landscape, where enthusiasm and sarcasm, destruction and creation, coexist in vibrant harmony.