week42:

Aleatoric Composition 2

Matthew Shlian x Michael Cina

"The path to a finished work of art is often littered with the detritus of jettisoned ideas. Matthew Shlian and Michael Cina, two aesthetically distinct artists, find commonality in how they walk this path—stopping often, retracing steps, collecting, discarding, and finding surprising treasures concealed by the overgrowth along the way. When the two artists decided to collaborate on a series, we had no idea what to expect, but we knew that the combination of their unique styles would prove captivating.

The resulting series, a fusion of Cina's abstractionist canvas work and Shlian's organic formations, is titled in reference to the emphasis of chance in the process of creation. It is also a singular example of emergence at work: here the whole is not simply greater than the sum of its parts, but something altogether different. Aleatoric and emergent, yes—though perhaps the best word to describe it is simply, awesome."


More about the work:
http://www.theghostlystore.com/collections/art/products/matthew-shlian-michael-cina-aleatoric-composition-2#prettyPhoto

More about the paper-artist Matthew Shlian, and his works:
http://www.mattshlian.com/