Recent works by Florian LIBER, digital print 2023

HUMAN IM PERFECT

UN NATURAL IN ORGANIC

Florian LIBER

New York, Montreal, Toronto, Buenos Aires, Europe, Japan

FU TU RE

CORE COLLECTIONS 2023

RELIEF PAINTINGS ON CANVAS & NEW TECHS IN

CONTEMPORARY ARTS

EXHIBITION OF LEADING CANADIAN AND INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS (Florian LIBER, David SORENSEN and Henry SAXE - member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts)

Stanley BORENSTEINGallery - 4710 rue St-Ambroise suite 102, Montreal, Québec, H4C 2C7 P: 514 843-6662 https://www.facebook.com/galeriedartscontemporains/

UN NATURAL

I will go to the thread of Ariadne, and I am following your traces as a contemporary “inorganic artist”[iv]. I mean inside the human body. You shiver me, Liber (I know you like aesthetic shivering, what would you do without it?) with your invasive style in the human body structure. You strongly enter - as a surgeon in and dissect, divide with the aesthetic scalpel meat pieces, human skeleton parts and you place them cynically on a metal/ technological support, replacing life, blood, nerves, and veins with the cold skeleton of industrial matter. Basically, you drain the life and replace it with something that brings a very life. I do not know whether you intend to draw the signal on the decay of life, the process of decomposition of the livelihood or even of the overlapping of the nourishment on death, of the interlocking of the three faces of the whole: life-death-hybridization. I really do not know! But your works become finally anatomical. Do you know what saves them from Cut, Paste, and noLife?! - You play, you assassinate, you cut, you drain the life from the biological body and then mimic it, endowing the anatomical material with the pictorial blood, in a “lively object-painting”, transforming it into an inorganic study sequel, into a contemporary aesthetic object. (L. Bibart, Art Review)

ii. mezzo-relievo & Painting on massive wood, marbre as Ubermensch, 2023

Large/ medium size bassorilievo/ bas relief & Painting on canvas i, iii and mezzo-relievo & Painting on massive wood ii as Ubermensch (next page - AI art research no. iv)

iv. VENUS vs Kate Moss (AI based art), 154x43x23 cm [acrylic, epoxy, steel, fiberglass, enamel, gesso, involving art - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE], 2023

HUMAN IM PERFECT

The body ego, as Freud said, that is, the most primitive and physical and organic ego.

It becomes clear that the violent conceptual explosions that have recently taken place were decisively influenced the re-definition of body images, of body perceptions.

Fifty years ago, the Francis Bacon thought, aimed to restore the body “to a kind of dignified, animal resignation”. For him, art was about ribs and forearms and eye sockets. “It was about flesh over bone. Bacon never forgets that flesh is meat”.

In my case, the bone become excessory, the flesh becomes inflesh, an inorganic re-definition. The purveyor of inflesh of all kinds, as an inflection, of livid and brilliant hues: phthalo greens, cobalt blue, eerie pale or saturate red and shocking yellows, sepulchral titanium whites, black ivory and ritually primitive lines. The excessories of my artworks, steel and fiberglass erection, conjure unlikely anatomies and intelligent devices (nanotech, A.I.).

My artistic approach and acclaim the spectacular extremes of bodily manipulation by new technologies, the deconstruction of corporality(Derrida) and evaporation of the body into virtual(Deleuze), moving towards to a new aesthetics, butchering of the ideal body as a gift from nature. (Florian LIBER)

dim: 59 x 37 in, 150 x 94 cm, canvas and object-painting, 2022

dim: 48 x 36 in, 122x92 cm, bas-relief on canvas

the new era of embodiment

dim: 36 x 48 in, 92x 122 cm, canvas/ mezzorelievo

the new era of embodiment

fig 4. dim: 48 x 36 in, 122x92 cm, bas-relief on canvas [acrylic, epoxy, steel, enamel, gesso, involving art

fig 5. dim: 36 x 48 in, 92 x 122, cm, canvas

dim: 36 x 48 in, 92x 122 cm, canvas/ mezzorelievo

dim: 48 x 36 in, 122 x 92 cm, relief painting on canvas, mezzorelievo [acrylic, epoxy, steel, enamel, gesso, fiberglass, epoxy - nanotech IoT, Internet of Things] AUG-

Notable artists who have benefited from AENY: Andy Warhol, Peter Max, Robert Rauschenberg (acc. to Washington Post)

I N O R G A N I C

the most body ego

“Folding space and time” algorithm by F. Liber, 2021

INORGANIC SCULPTURE, 2021 - dim 50x20x18 inches and 60x19x13 inches. Tech: marbre, acrylic, steel, gesso, fiberglass, industrial primer. epoxy, nanotech, Artificial Intelligence AI; author

F.Liber

clustering Machine Learning ML AI algorithm by F. Liber, 2019

Reality

Augmented

Show by Florian Liber (left) and J.P. Lafrance in Montreal and Toronto, art dealer Stanley Borenstein; 2018-19