“It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions
are false.” René Descartes
One of the synonyms of the word Fake is Simulation, which is beside the idea of nonoriginal, inauthentic, reproduced, fabricated, false phenomenon leads us to the hypothesis of simulated reality. The general concept of which originated by French philosopher René Descartes’ notion from his “Meditations on First Philosophy”, 1641. How would you know that you’re not being manipulated by an evil genius who’s fooling your sensations and perceptions to create experiences as of a world around you when none of it is real? The philosophers call it the problem of scepticism.
Wolfgang Messing defines a multi-level system of allegories in changing degrees of complexity, to represent fragmented memory of global events. He uses a variety of sources from social media and news feeds, photography, advertisements, movie quotes, books, found images, archival and museum artefacts, allusions to the history of culture, to abstract geometric comparisons.
The emphasized intention for manual imitation of the machine technique determines the artist’s style.
Messing presents works of various formats, made with a technical quality referring to the modern technology of digital and analogue printing. Each painting is simultaneously a completed piece and an element of another unit in a multidimensional complex-composed balance of relations of all aspects of the exhibition with each other and concerning each of the entities.
The artist addresses spectators with different degrees of smart, independent meaningful perception, capable of appreciating both the immediate live relevance of an intellectual experiment and the visual simulations, which transform the usual flow of time. Experiment and visual simulations you may have already seen in the near future, or you will see many more times, “...a long, long time ago...”