IslANDs - Painterly Experiments & Exploded Sculptures

forms marching through partitioned panels.
Concentric circles converge to the centre of a lotiform ceiling,
like turbulent waters in a whirlpool. Public and water
park sculptures use wires, metal planks, pillars, flowering columns,
create primeval organic animal forms and offer chaotic
fields of intertwined ethereal, fractal, optic art shapes.
Instead of looking accidental, Gudjon’s forms appear like
dramatis personae on the immense stage and canvas of the
universe, imitating nature, not as it is, but in its own manner
of operation, imposing, as it were, a sympathetic compulsion.
These create a coruscating, vibrant, synesthetic dialogue –
between life and art. The apparently random, indeterminate,
fortuitous deformations emulate non-random processes of
nature. These build up a cathartic sense of the human species
caught up in the ever widening circles of hurtling galaxies
in the vast immensity of the universe.
The steel God emerges in splinters, but the buds, grass and
forest are destroyed and a ram is skewered in the arrogant
atom of metal, which thought itself immortal. He provides a
comment on machine civilization, in which technology outstrips
wisdom, because of the fragility of human beings who
control such technology.
A chromatic abstraction and improvisation creates vibrant,
pneumatic shapes, in a play on solids and voids, lines and curves,
circles and cylinders, with a coloristic use of light and shadows.
The fragmentation, recombination dismemberment and
transgression of materials provides an unfolding experience
of time and space continuum. Luminodynamic and shifting
timelight resonances create anti-style landscapes, differently
articulated and synchronized in an aleatory music. To recall
Dylan Thomas, “Vision and Prayer”: ‘with a thousand lights,
a sandy beach and clouds are assembled behind horizontal
and vertical bars of light and shade.’
Gudjon finds in the silence of nature echoes of his soul. He
breathes speech, respiration and meaning into them. He illustrates
the transformative impact of thinking on m a t -
ter. In Doina Uricaria’s poem “Letters gathered in the name
of Eloah”, he finds seeds of earthquakes and storms, as God
takes earth from the waters, and pulls Eve out of Adam’s rib.
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