The Perfect City

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client: non commercial project

cathegory: social poster, illustration, art direction

satus: exhibited

 

'The perfect city' is a result of longstanding research and observations of the urban space, surrounding reality and how it affects society. My artworks are the result of analysis of urbanization process, showing the relationship between humans and the urban space they live in. 
The project relates to the issues of gated communities, visual pollution, congestion, roads excess within inner cities, lack of space for pedestrians and cyclists, air pollution, lack of architectural creativity, architectural and urban disorder, suburbanization. 

The process of suburbanization (spreading settlements out of the city borders) brings many negative consequences. At first it kills the beauty of social life and city vibrancy. Everyone tends to hold their own gated property and live a calm life in their own private enclave. Banks, shopping malls and corporate buildings are overtaking abandoned areas, dehumanizing the city space. Obvious results of those processes include privatization of public spaces, visual contamination and many others. Disgusting and obtrusive advertisements spread among the city, huge banners cover the whole buildings hiding the real picture of the city and architecture. 

'The perfect city' project is an effort to answer some of the essential questions: What is the effect of all those processes and how big impact they make to the mentality of society. Do people resist or they approve, do they analyze or just go with the flow? What are their aims, where do they head for? The conclusion hidden in my abstract visual compositions is a critical comment of the status quo, it is my manifesto, my scream of powerlessness. The sad conclusion of my research shows city as a dehumanized, mechanized and commercialized creature. Space for human beings is getting smaller and smaller, so they are forced to fight more and more for their own interest and for the public spaces which are not public anymore. The city becomes a venal institution that cares more about self-interest than the interests of society. Human seems to be so little and so insignificant, so lonely and lost at the times of constant changes and investments. 

My abstract compositions are non-literal, they give a feeling of anxiety and danger. They're hyperbolic
and apocalyptic visions of the city, being at the same time a kind of warning for the recipient. Gray, dark
and geometrical forms are based only on my own imagination and artistic creations.