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LEON kUbASSkI

Lives and works in Pasadena, California, USA

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Leon kubasski’s work often resonates with essential
memories of the beautiful and harmonious and it refers to the
feeling of the esthetical and graceful aura of life, appearing
sometimes rather quaint or even solemn, - that goes back
to the roots of the best classic artworks and times of the
beauteous, unspoilt in its primordiality.

As the artist often prefers to work at night so that his paintings
become manifestations of his surreal visions and unhindered
transcendental trips that take the viewer through the abstruse
labyrinths of the artist’s thought, through intricate mazes
of visually encoded enigmas and up into mystical trance of
astral projection.
kubasski skillfully manipulates combinations of the noetic and
the fictional to create a world of visions, a plausible salient
simulacrum of our reality, almost tangible and verisimilar to
four-dimensional experience of our own lives in its conflict-
resolving (albeit virtual) and illuminating capacities. And the
artist works hard to create and mount an impressive structure
of carefully selected symbols to support the edifice of his
sometimes strangely involute logic. There is no place for
any spontaneity and whimsical improvisation in kubasski’s
works, and most of his pictures appear to be meticulously
designed by using a harmony of divine proportions as
golden Ratio or Fibonacci numbers and strict compositional
balance of colours and depicted objects. As an assiduous
perfectionist and an architect by education, he strives to
use all constructive possibilities of line and dimensionally
congruous and calibrated shapes, rather than deceptive
colour dabs and evasive obscure forms. The artist endeavours
to duly organize the entire virtual space of a depicted scene
to its maximum expressiveness without overloading it with
superfluous elements.
As the art critic Jonathan grissot has pointed out, kubasski’s
work implies a serious task of fortifying contemporary art
with the spiritual themes and objectives, and uncompromised
commitment to producing refined imagery and high quality
visuals, to formulating a world of esthetically re-shaped ideas,
where the artist tries to construe semiotics of our reality
with view to chart a path of understanding and cognition of
both the world and art alike, and where he proposes us to
move in search for the ultimate karmic purpose of human
existence. (Excerpt)
Text by Julia D. Carter, “Peregrination into the void”,
Artefact ©2004
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