Oct 27, 2009
Saul Chernick’s Protosapien Mist Unit
There’s something quite striking about these pieces from Saul Chernick.
Protosapien Mist Unit (Artist Proof)
2009
Plastic
12.5″ x 4.75″ x 2.75″
- description: One of the unique purposes of art has been to pictorialize the metaphysical. With great ingenuity and inventiveness artists have sought to render all manner of otherworldly beings, alternate realities, and supernatural phenomena. I am interested in the visual interpretations of such things because they uncover the beliefs and mindset of those who devised them. Many of my ideas originate from depictions of miraculous events and figures, as they appear in Judeo/Christian mythology, I use drawing to revisit, reinterpret, and reconfigure them. The mark language in these works allows me to conjure the same sense of weight and authority that classical religious imagery tend to possess. Although my images are informed by a contemporary and admittedly more secular viewpoint the basic themes, fears, and desires remain constant. I imagine the narratives in my drawings as part of a larger mythology set in Protosapia, an Eden-like environment that serves as both laboratory and breeding ground for an alternate or “would-be” human species. It is a place where ideas about creation, sexual politics, and iconography coalesce to create new possibilities embodied by its inhabitants, the Protosapiens.
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