Yuri Zupancic is a multi-talented artist who created a fabulous series of microchip paintings (often using handmade brushes constructed from his own eyelashes).
Zupancic describes the project beautifully…
“Smaller and Faster” has replaced “Bigger and Better” as the leading catchphrase of commodities. Things seems to be changing swiftly as every aspect of our lives is being affected by the electronic revolution. I reflect on questions and inspirations of our time with my miniature paintings on microchips. I strive for poetic efficiency through tiny images which strike great metaphorical chords when painted on microchips -the building blocks of the digital age.
The biggest frontier I see today is where nature and technology overlap. Mankind and our extensions (i.e. computers, cities) are essentially natural occurrences, thus move and evolve in the same dynamic patterns as the rest of the world. My paintings on microchips are an attempt to broaden our perspective of modern electronics and acknowledge their position as extensions of the human mind and human nature.
I’m swooning over this mirror neuron piece:
He does regular paintings as well. The merging of classical, modern and technological themes leaves the viewer delightfully suspended between conceptual constructs and vastly different worlds…yet it all comes together.
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