Alchimia existenței by Alexandru Paleologu

Given the insufficiency of drawing when facing the world, the drawing itself becomes a continuuum, without beginning, nor end, without gratification. But the new drawing is free from rhetorical ghosts, frozen and decanted by Alchimia in a formal and kaleidoscopic style.Īlchimia believes in despecialisation: “confused” methods of creation and production can live side by side crafts, industry, informatics, new and obsolete techniques and materials.Īlchimia believes in the concept of “variation”. The project works ambiguously outside of itself, in a state of waste, of disciplinary, dimensional, and conceptual indifference: the project is only an exercise for drawing.Īlchimia believes that memory and tradition are important. It is more important to explore those great empty spaces between them.įor Alchimia one must not set out to do sculpture, architecture, painting, applied arts, theatre, or what else.

Its act of introversion, its minimal creative will, is accomplished beyond the reach of judgement.Īlchimia is not interested in disciplines when these are considered according to their own rules. If the transitory nature of these times does not allow for certainty, if even philosophy seems to have shut its doors on the future, if it is impossible to visualise general and rational transformation, then the Alchimia group concentrates on itself, seeking out details of thought, intent only in signalling its poetical vocation.

To find oneself again is essential, and Alchimia works on those values which are considered negative: on weakness, on emptiness, absence of being and depth, which today take a back seat to that which is on the surface, full, and violent, as things to be removed. Alchimia believes that today both man and woman live in a turbulent and unbalanced state, their lives characterised by “detail”: organisational, human, industrial, political, cultural fragments…A transitional period in which they are gripped by an undefined fear resulting from the loss of many values once considered absolute. The motivation of the work lies not in its practical efficiency, the “beauty” of the object is in the love and magic with which it is suggested in its soul. A “motivated” movement.Īs a group which produces drawings Alchimia interprets its task to be that of furnishing others with a proof of “sentimental thought”. To draw, meaning the act of making signs, is not to “design”, nor to “project”: it is instead a free and continuous expression of thought, made visual. For the Alchimia group the act itself of “drawing” is what counts today.

Alchimia existenței by Alexandru Paleologu