Babak Golkar

"From God to Malevich" 180 View, Left to Right, Then Reversed, To Be Viewed at an Arm’s-Length, 2009 - This diptych is made of multiple prints of black polygons mounted under a set of lenticular lens. Through the use of a lenticular lens the spectator is confronted by the illusion that a “cube” is rotating on the two dimensional surface.   One linear move from the left to the right, in “reality” or three-dimensional space, constitutes a 180 degrees trip around the cube in the two-dimensional space of the picture plane. This work collapses and contradicts physical and perceived spaces. Juxtaposing the two references (Ka’aba in Mecca and Malevich’s Black Square) provides a tension between the two proposals; one divorced from any external meaning and the other one the ultimate meaning
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