Ivan Plusch
The rigidity and fragility of the world, fear and subsequent aggression are spreading everywhere rapidly, “glazing” the characters of my sculptures.
Fears and phobias, accompanying the life of every person, tend to accumulate and deepen, creating a field of inner tension and, as a result, complicate human existence to an extreme degree. This becomes a mass process in critical transitional periods of history – kairoi.
The project about (Goten) today’s Barbarians – consists of the harsh and poignant life stories lived by a fragile and infantile people.
Empty and beautiful, poignant, harsh and, at the same time, very fragile characters – drowned in childhood dreams and lost in narcissism and the myths of fictional worlds offered to them – in reality show blind cruelty. This they do out of fear, not understanding its nature.
My character, paralysed by his fear of an unknown force that threatens to crush him, is neither capable of actively resisting violence, nor of defending his dignity, nor of protecting his life. This is the fear of the monster of criminal statehood, the gigantic social body of the modern Leviathan, and of the irresistible force of the circumstances created by it, which threaten to crush personality.
Transitional Entities
Cultural identity, being flexible and subject to differences and contradictions, is constantly changing. This is no longer a specific notion in an orderly world – it is always in flux, being influenced and altered. These changes, which took place in the second half of the 20th century, are gaining new strength now that globalisation is facing difficulties.
I am interested in a person’s life, disappearance, in the change of viewpoint due to the devaluation of the character as such, as well as in the imposition of a certain viewpoint and subsequent goals.
Form and content transform within the character, deforming beyond recognition, passing into another “time”, in which they acquire other contours and meanings.
The desire for Escape is omnipresent in the contemporary world, the world of information – however, it is no longer information that one greedily consumes, but that from which one wishes to hide, snatching only what is needed, whenever necessary. The fear of global changes has taken hold of my viewer’s hero
