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Artist Statement for Mike Bernstein
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PAINTING AND PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLIDE.
Aesthetics and theoretical physics “hit it off” in my "Colour-field Splash" paintings. The effect is both attractive and striking. It uses canvas and paint but no brush strokes. First several coats of a single colour are absorbed into the weave of the canvas to produce a tranquil base. The tranquility is then disturbed by a splash of paint. At some points the high velocity of the paint causes it to split symmetrically on the canvas to produce a unique and beautiful effect. It is through this splitting of the splash that the observer is sucked into the multiple dimensions of the cosmological space beyond. The action takes place on a manifold called the Riemann sphere, a sphere so large that the curved surface becomes flat (like walking on the surface of the Earth but in effect at the edge of the universe). The splashes of paint are “Strings” and the symmetric split is a “Hyperfunction” where the split is between the positive and the negative, the yin and the yang. Through the portal of the split we can delve into the furthest regions of space, helped in our journey by either “String” or “Twistor” theory.
Colour-field splash builds on Abstract Expressionism, in particular the work of Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock and Lucio Fontana. All three of these artists sought to free themselves from the restrictions of a two-dimensional painted surface and to extend the vocabulary of painting beyond the pictorial representation and convention of easel painting. Newman’s “Zips” and Fontana’s “Tagli or Cuts” now give way to symmetric “Splits” truly reflecting the nature of the universe.
The paintings are a unique demonstration of the conditions under which the Cauchy-Riemann equations work on a real two-dimensional manifold. Under the conditions given by these equations a vibrating function would exhibit the same effects that a holomorphic function does in the complex plane.
The “Split” produced by the vibrating Splash is the elementary “string” particle at the beginning of time.
The oscillating paint splits symmmetrically on the canvas to create a totally original effect never seen before.
Artist statement: 3rd September 2008
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