Leonardo Ulian : Sacred Space

27 Sep-9 Nov 2013

Overview

For Leonardo Ulian’s first solo exhibition with Beers.Lambert, the artist has created his most intensive and mesmerizing series of works to date: Sacred Space consists of a series of mandalas, a symbol from Hindu and Buddhist symbolism that represents metaphysical enlightenment, made entirely from meticulously arranged electronic components. Ulian's reflexive use of the geometrical mandala can also be seen as a nod to his 'past-life' as an technican, but through his application, Ulian divorces the electronic components from their origins, giving new life to these (now defunct) technological bits, creating a hybrid that appropriates spiritualization and contemporary critique in equal measure: “We live in a society that worships electronic technology,” he states “both for necessity but also because it makes us feel better, not unlike its own new form of fashionable spirituality.”