Francisco Infante-Arana and his visually effective photography

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Francisco Infante-Arana is a Russian artist that marks the art world with avant-garde photos he worked on along with the artist Nonna Goriunova.

Infante-Arana's work shows geometric shapes that blend with natural landscapes, creating an effect that displays a relationship with geometry that reminds those of the painting experiments of painters in the first 900' years.
With the help of Goriunova, he started creating works that play with visual effects and optical illusions, giving birth to three-dimensional works. The series is called ''Artifacts'' and presents squares, triangles, circles and more, all capable of showing a mysterious and surreal world that revokes our approach to the infinite and eternal, with the nature playing an important part in our lives.
About his idea of the infinite, he explains: "This subject defines my personal evolution in a very precise manner, stemming from the totalizing principle that governed me. This principle could not always be the same, nor have the same name, or the same form. An evolution was present and I understood that the world was not only made up of visible shapes, but also of concealed ones, in the shade, something which could be black and larger. This is what we term mystery. It is obscure, but present within each open element. My attention then went towards that mystery. The infinite thus turns rather into mystery.
I was still making geometrical objects at the time, and as I had to somehow designate the mystery, I started to locate it in nature.

Nature, to me, represented the infinite, the mystery which I took part of, which gave me the possibility of looking at myself from the outside. This entailed that the geometrical object, which was represented by technique, could introduce itself in nature. It seemed to me that the world was full of hypertrophied technique; technical developments dominate our lives. One cannot live without these devices: the telephone, television, fax ...

The fact that these have harmed nature to a great extent, is another question, ecological and technical.
With regard to form in art, it seemed to me that it was very important to combine my vision of nature as regards the infinite, with the presence of the artifact, an artificial and technical device, which, in the measure that it communicates with nature, it renders a different specimen of artifact, the artifact as such, let us say. The artifact is something which does not exist, but you could say that the work of art, if it is successful, is an artifact.

What cannot exist, appears, turns into reality, is. What has led me to combine the technical object with nature is my will to make artifacts, that is, artistic realities."