Something biz and something art.
Biz does not necessarily stand for bizarre, however it may do so, whenever you perceieve it as such…
In fact Biz is a common internet acronym for business, used mainly in domains and e-mail addresses
Is there anything that business has in common with art? Well... yes. They say, business is the art of making money; the majority of modern art venues are promoted by allmedia ads and rich PR; many companies advertise themselves by art sponsorship; fat corporate swines pretend to be art-critics, and so on...
But let's try to get deeper into this issue... Companies, training centres, conferences, business schools - they are all flooded with all types of charts, models, plans, tables, numbers, graphs and other useful real or virtual statements about various nuisances.
Akin to minimal-art masterpieces, this business related information is all but rhythm, melody, space, void, nostalgia, this very moment happiness, soul, body, nihilism, simplicity in complexity and complexity in simplicity, but mostly, some magical, mood-shifting harmony.
We will spot this similarity only when we stop looking at those charts as a piece of information with various messages in it, concentrating more on the actual form.
The message itself, however, is important as well. Despite the implied objectivity in all those models, profit margin graphs, t-accounts and corporate change models, the background and the so called big picture can be interpreted in a number of ways. Just like art.
My project here is connected to the concept of business information being art. I however intentionally transform the actual message to unreadable, allowing the aesthetic sense to overcome the constantly categorising brain and embrace the impression of the actual perfect information without any exact message given.
I call it business-art or, much simpler biz-art.
This collection is mainly stimulated by music artists and painters who constantly push/pushed the boundaries of the art as whole, and who, unsurprisingly reached critical acclaim and commercial (business) success as well.
Hats off to Autechre, Art Zoyd, Georges Braque, John Cage, Can, Salvador Dali, Miles Davis, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Dj Shadow, Marcel Duchamp, Brian Eno, Vasilly Kandinsky, King Crimson, Yves Klein, Kraftwerk, The Legendary Pink Dots, Joan Miro, Muslimgauze, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Prince, Man Ray, Steve Reich, Mark Rothko, Roxy Music, Talk Talk, The Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa and many many more.
I have placed this little project as a blog format intentionally, this allows the viewers to comment on every little piece published.
All those pictures are copyrighted. You may still use them for your own, non-profit purpose.
Your comments are very welcome, you may also e-mail me on the following address, I will gladly respond:
gtancx@wp.pl
Gregory Ganczewski
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