{"id":4108,"date":"2012-11-08T20:23:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T01:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=4108"},"modified":"2012-11-10T23:08:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T04:08:40","slug":"arvinder-bawas-fractal-exhibition-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=4108","title":{"rendered":"Arvinder Bawa’s Fractal Exhibition in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arvinder Bawa recently had a showing of his fractal artworks in Laredo, Cantabria, Spain at the Sala Ruas gallery.\u00a0 The poster explains it best:<\/p>\n

~Click on images to view full-size on original site~<\/em><\/p>\n

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Advertisement for Arvinder Bawa’s fractal art exhibition in northern Spain<\/p><\/div>\n

Arvinder has written an interesting explanation to accompany the exhibit.\u00a0 I like his simple language and layman’s terms:<\/p>\n

…For the exhibition it is necessary to write a short explanation of what these images represent and it is hard to find the words to explain the process without drowning the reader in complex mathematics and iterative equation manipulation programming techniques. In an attempt to make a start in assembling this\u00a0write-up, here is what I have come up with…The geometry of nature – Fractals – Order and Chaos<\/em><\/p>\n

The images which makeup this exhibition have been generated by a computer program which\u00a0follows the\u00a0behavior\u00a0of some mathematical equations that represent complex dynamics using\u00a0complex variables. The\u00a0behavior\u00a0of these equations is represented by the images where the\u00a0black regions are zones of stability and order and the brightly coloured areas are zones of\u00a0chaos.<\/em><\/p>\n

…it is only in the last thirty years with the invention of computers and\u00a0high resolution plotters that we are able to enjoy the chaotic\u00a0behavior\u00a0in glorious and\u00a0beautiful images…<\/em><\/p>\n

…When we view the images it is as if we are in the presence of something cosmic and familiar,\u00a0and this is because many of the structures in nature and in our surroundings behave in a\u00a0similar way. The coastline, the structures in biology and botany, the\u00a0behavior\u00a0of\u00a0populations and economies, the meteorology, cosmology and the study of turbulence in air and fluids all\u00a0have elements of chaos which is essentially what we can see in the images in this\u00a0exhibition.<\/em><\/p>\n

~From Arvinder Bawa’s blog, Arvinder<\/a>, Aug. 27th, 2012<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Behave in a similar way”<\/em> –I like that.\u00a0 What we expect from a branching tree or a crack in the road is what we expect in fractal imagery because they’re following the same kind of rules and “behavior”<\/em>.\u00a0 We are at home in both places because they are so much alike.<\/p>\n

Arvinder’s work is admittedly a little “retro” as he states in the same blog posting:\u00a0 “Images such as these were popular in the 80s and the 90s, and many books with wonderful images were published.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s a handful of thumbnails of the exhibition taken from Marisol Cavia’s Flickr page:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Fractals – The Geometry of Nature – an exhibition by Arvinder Bawa at the Sala Ruas, Laredo, Spain, Oct. 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fractals – The Geometry of Nature – an exhibition by Arvinder Bawa at the Sala Ruas, Laredo, Spain<\/p><\/div>\n

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Thumbnails of some of the exhibited images found on Marisol Cavia’s Flickr<\/a> page<\/p><\/div>\n

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Arvinder Bawa and colleague, at the Sala Ruas gallery, Laredo, Spain.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Arvinder Bawa, Cork Street, London, England, 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

Well, what about it?\u00a0 Why an exhibition of images that are so out of style in today’s fractal art world?\u00a0 I don’t think the Sala Ruas gallery sticks just anything up on their walls for visitors to look at.\u00a0 What did the curator of Sala Ruas see in these fractals that most of us, “up to date” fractal folks wouldn’t? (key word: most<\/em> of us).<\/p>\n

There’s been a lot of talk in the fractal world about “Takin’ it to the streets” and introducing the rest of the world to fractal art.\u00a0 That’s supposed to be the whole idea around the BMFACs<\/a> and yet Arvinder’s work is precisely the kind of “garish, 70s-style imagery”<\/em> that the BMFACs hope to erase from the world’s memory.<\/p>\n

One thing I’ve realized from a decade of watching the fractal world is this:\u00a0 I think the fractal world understands the art world to the same degree that the art world understands the fractal world.\u00a0 That is to say, very little.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>We can laugh it up all we want about work like this but someone thought this was worth exhibiting in an art gallery.\u00a0 I wonder what they’d think about our fractal artwork<\/em>?<\/p>\n

The fractal art world as a whole is as eccentric as the math and programming that goes into creating the imagery.\u00a0 Arvinder Bawa is one of us because he’s found something in fractals worth looking at and drawing other people’s attention to.\u00a0 I can’t think of a better definition of “artist”<\/em> than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arvinder Bawa recently had a showing of his fractal artworks in Laredo, Cantabria, Spain at the Sala Ruas gallery.\u00a0 The poster explains it best: ~Click on images to view full-size on original site~ Arvinder has written an interesting explanation to accompany the exhibit.\u00a0 I like his simple language and layman’s terms: …For the exhibition it … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/18-1.jpg?fit=320%2C240&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2189,"url":"https:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=2189","url_meta":{"origin":4108,"position":0},"title":"BMFAC: Sorry, you’re looking for something that isn’t here","author":"Tim","date":"11 January, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a riddle:\u00a0 when is the host of an art exhibition not the host of an art exhibition? 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