Sadistic, Destructive, Beautiful

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Clique thought or a silly quote that in all actuality defines how we as humans react to a way an image makes us feel? The pretty colors are fun, the sleek intelligent design is cool, but the ideas behind the art  is what transcends anything put on a canvas.

Alessandro Bavari is one of those artist that create and manipulates digital media that transcends just the visual aspect of a piece. It is his message behind the piece that creates a level of emotion not describable by words. The gallery I want to present by Bavari is called Sodom and Gomorrah.

Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them,
since they in the same way as these indulged
in gross immorality and went after strange flesh,
are exhibited as an example,
in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire”
Epistle of Jude. 1:7

“At night they will think they have seen the Sun,
When they see the half-pig man.
Noise, screams battles seen fought in the skies.
The brute beasts will be heard to speak”.
Nostradamus, Century I, Quatrain 64 

The real works are obviously his art, but on his site he writes works of the Old Testament, and of Nostradamus that really give you an understanding of his reasoning behind the art.

The lost cities of Sodom and Gomarah are only documented in the Old Testemant of the Bible. Bavari brings to life , in his own interpretation, of what it was to live in a utopia of sin. Given in an ancestral time, or even in a period of extreme evolution, the objects portrayed are of a life of complete naturalism.

His mastery of layers, (which his work is done using photoshop) his ability to blend abstract figures, and to bring to life the obscenity of a immoral city are one to cherish.

Found in his work are those of a “barbaric” nature. It is not abnormal to find a lizard man with feminine features, nursing he/she’s young among the mist of a society that bares no boundaries of sexuality.

As hard it is to see or understand what his work is about, given a little research you will understand the beauty of one who truly understands the evolution of life. This is not to mention ones attempt to explore a hidden and taboo subject that most associate with a life of sin and damnation.