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Marc Scheps: Art As Utopia

(The concluding chapter of "An East-West Symbiosis as an Artistic Utopia" that appeared in the catalogue to the artist's exhibition at The Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, 2004).

Kadim's project seeks to point to a number of profound connections: between art and science, between culture and nature, between art and life, between the microcosm and the macrocosm, between numbers and forms, between forms and color, between art and society, between the past and the present, between the detail and the whole. As an artist whe lives here and now, he decided to group all these contexts together in his central project, the East-West symbiosis. In light of this decision, in the course of these years he has developed an artistic and humanistic approach that he calls "metaphysical geometry". In its essence, this is a universal way, even if the artist's point of departure was the quest for an East-West symbiosis. But this is also a unique and personal way posessing a message that is global in its meaning. We are living in a period of global communications networking, in which any meeting point between two lines - or between two cultures - may create an original symbiosis that posseses a general validity. It is clear that any future prediction about this symbiosis, even if it already has a foothold in present-day reality, is still in the realm of utopia; the process has just begun, and much more time will be required until its completion. Art is perhaps the only sphere in which it is possible to advance such a utopia, for it has the power to construct cultural models that in the future will be able to serve the entire society.

Even if Kadim is not alone in the world in this procession towards the global inter-cultural dialogue, his consistent pursuit of this path for the past twenty years is noteworthy. From my personal acquaintance with many of the artists who have chosen this way, I am confident that together they constitute a force that will influence the future of contemporary art throughout the world.

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