Doctoral Art Project Ars Combinatoria as a method of visual speculation deals with graphic media boundaries, actualisation of structuralist and post-structuralist theories in contemporary art as well as with the methodology of open art work compositions. By using multipart/multimedia setting, the Project aims to analyse and illustrate the idea of creating a visual work of art through the application of specific mathematical, linguistic and semiotic rules which, in turn, bring forth the reconsideration of traditional principles of presentation and perception of the graphic sheet/print and graphics as media in general. This Project came forth from exploring the communication as a system of transferring information from one subject to another using minimal visual elements, as well as from researching the process of the visual structure perception itself by analysing the intercommunication between its elements.
Graphic sheets are structural elements that build economical, symmetrical and simple geometric forms of large dimensions. Each graphic sheet is encrypted and presents a separate artistically self-sufficient entity that can be displayed Independently. However, if appropriately placed in a given scheme, it becomes part of a clear raster structure based on a linear succession that has its own course and direction. Raster scheme defines the structural space of (trans) formations of visual progression and emphasises its non-mimetic properties. Design of visual structure is a metalinguistic sample that highlights the principle of its construction and formal syntaxic rules that regulate relations of structural visual elements – thus the structure becomes an artifact resulting from variations, permutations and creation of the structure from the visual structure.
These symmetric forms do not represent a final or correct visual solution but a starting point for further optical permutations of the given content. The number of possible solutions can be obtained by using a formula to calculate the factorial P (n) = 1x2x ... n = n! where n represents the number of elements of each structure and where no single solution could be more correct than others - visual information remain unchanged, unlike their mutual relationship.
The Project was presented at two Belgrade galleries - the Gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Remont Gallery from 14 March to 1 April 2016.
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