The Cloud of Unknowing, Roman Verostko
"For the past 40 years I have worked with pure visual form ranging from controlled constructions with highly studied color behavior to spontaneous brush strokes and inventive non-representational drawing. Such art has been labeled variously as "concrete", "abstract", "non-objective", and "non-representational". In its purest form such art does not re-present other reality. Rather "it is" the reality. One contemplates a pure form similar to the way one might contemplate a fine vase or a sea shell. Early 20th Century pioneers of this art include artists like Piet Mondrian, Frantisek Kupka and the brothers Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner.
In the last quarter of the 20th Century a radically new form-generating procedure became available. By joining algorithmic procedure and computing power some artists began generating forms with surprising visual qualities. A vast uncharted frontier of form waited to be conceptualized and concretized. By the 1980's I was composing detailed procedures for generating forms that were accessible only through extensive computing. On-going work concentrates on developing this program of form generators. By joining these procedures with fine arts practice I create two dimensional art objects to be contemplated much as we contemplate the forms of nature."
Roman Verostko
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