Magical Realism in Bioengineering
“The Metamorphosis” of Franz Kafka is considered as one of the greatest novellas in philosophical literature and a lot of ink was spilled on it by critics and scholars. The eponym Kafkaesque, often overused and misinterpreted at times, in general describes an enigmatic or surreal sequence of events. I find it quite useful however for depicting Patricia Piccinini’s work. Patricia is an Australian contemporary artist, an alumnus of Victorian College of the Arts, that portrays many of the perplexing issues of bioengineering and the absurdities of technoculture’s generations.
The Liquid Illusions of Salvador Dali
Of all the artists from the twentieth century, one pushed me to dream beyond the limits of my own imagination. Salvador Dali - the madman, who revolutionized the art scene and shook the rational sensibility, introduced me to a new way of perceiving reality. The “irrational knowledge”, as defined by him, is the ability to view different images within the same object, the way our mind builds castles in the sky while gazing at the clouds above. The art of Salvador Dali is an incarnation of this “delirium of interpretation”.