Art: Paris, Cinema, Decadence by Boré Ivanoff
Art: Paris, Cinema, Decadance by Boré Ivanoff
The Myth Of A Divided Self
The dark and heavy crystal paperweights Are all gone, replaced and carried away, By the careful heart beats of a new age Fear, trapped, in a very world wide web. Only their broken spine, hypertexted, Gathering data among the ruins. For this Is one of those moments, that turns back Time, that runs besides those who left. An old photo ripped, reviewed, mangled, From the hard copy family photo album, Embedded now like shelled clams, brings Back unruly memories, a land left behind. Life’s comings and goings, locations, Dates, scribbled on the back of old photos, So much information, stamped on them, It almost splits the water, scatters them. Like the backside of a digital mess, The childhood memories contained in Shoeboxes, gone inside again, an elegant Dumping ground, like old native soil, gone. Enlarge this image of the old villa, ancient, now Decayed; curate any portion of what is captured, Of cities and towns lost, heaped together in scraps Of milestones, pause on their lonely edges. Then the skirmish of newer kind of scrapbooks, Projects that bridge the generational gulf, Virtual piles everywhere, shutterflied, Moleskinned, instagrammed, pickled. Edit and organize, for nothing lasts forever, The digital metadata of exiled emotions, Photo book projects gone, facial recognition Software that endures, fabulously hard driven.About the author:
I am a long standing academic and a published novelist and poet. After teaching in Delhi University, India, for nearly twenty years, I am presently teaching at Thomas Edison State University, New Jersey, USA. I hold a Ph.D. in English from the George Washington University, Washington D.C.
I have published two novels, five collections of poetry, and six plays. Several of my plays have been staged in Washington D.C. as well as in New Delhi, India.
My sixth volume of poetry, FROM: IMMIGRANT DIARIES is a diverse collection of poems on the lives, experiences, dilemmas, and existential situations of immigrants across the globe. It addresses issues concerning the promise and pitfalls of migration, the effect of income and immigration policies on international migration, the attitudes and responses of the native born toward the influx of immigrants from an extremely broad spectrum of countries, encompassing an unprecedented range of linguistic backgrounds, and increasingly of non-European origin, the state of knowledge about immigrant children and families, the adverse impact on the wages and employment potential of the native born, and the desire to fit in or rebel, in highly personalized poems.
Art: Paris, Cinema, Decadence by Boré Ivanoff
In the artist's words:
Eastern European-born, contemporary, protean artist, based in Paris since 2001. Since 2012 he paints exclusively Paris. Parisian views, ‘jamais vu’ motives are his special feature, blurring the line between abstraction and realism. For Boré Paris it’s the kind of place that offers the right combination of inspiration and pain and suffering to keep him stimulated and painting. Independent and self-confident, with a remarkable ability to surprise and intrigue the viewer … he prefers the enigmatic, the unconventional, and the unexpected. His work is precise, yet it teeters on the threshold of delirium and chaos. He brings outrageous levels, of pictorial realization to his work. His compositions are a sophisticated exercise in the manipulation of form, keyed-up color, density, illusionism, brushwork, and compression. The interior and the exterior merge to produce a single image whose complexities are almost impossible to untangle. The result is which the abstract nearly trumps the real. Boré wants to see how far he can push reality to the other side where the “real” is still recognizable, but becoming totally abstract, building that tension until they are just one and the same.