Art Project «Seeing the Invisible»
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This artwork had deserved the Critique «Diana Malivani. "The Sea of Samsara". Artwork Analysis» by Christopher Rosewood, Art Critic and Member of the International Confederation of Art Critics (ICAC).
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This artwork is part of the Art Project «Seeing The Invisible».
We can hardly see the invisible; for example, those children’s puzzles which have objects hidden in a picture. We saw none of these things until we really began searching for them in unlikely places. They had been invisible to us, but before long we began to see the invisible.
In her book “Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual”, Lynn Gamwell shows how modern science has transformed modern art and reveals that the world beyond the naked eye - made visible by advances in science - has been a major inspiration for artists ever since.
In his book “Seeing the Invisible”, Michel Henry uncovers the philosophical significance of Wassily Kandinsky’s revolution in painting: that abstract art reveals the invisible essence of life and overturns our conceptions about art, because it seeks to express the internal aspect of phenomena, in other words, to paint the invisible.
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The name of the artwork, «The Sea of Samsara» (part of the Art Project «Seeing The Invisible»), deals with Indian philosophical and religious traditions and means the endless ocean we must cross, lifetime after lifetime, to reach that far distant shore, termed in Buddhism Nirvana. Samsara is a Sanskrit word that means «wandering» or «world», with the connotation of cyclic, circuitous change. It also refers to the concept of cyclicality of all life, of death and rebirth, a fundamental assumption of most Indian religions.
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More photos of the artwork as well as the relevant documents are available upon request
(close-up views, the artists signature, in-context photos, publication copies, certificate of authenticity etc.).
