VÁKUUM

“A space between control and surrender.”

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Einstein turned science into ART.

Banksy turned art into SCIENCE.

You were just never taught
to see it that way.

Both made invisible systems understandable.

Portrait of Alen, the artist behind VÁKUUM

ABOUT

It started with paint: dilution, thickness, medium, gravity, control. A Pollock-inspired piece for my living room became something else when I stopped trying to reproduce a master and started listening to what the material was doing. By 23, I had already had three confirmed melanomas removed. By 30, seven. For a long time, each piece belonged to the waiting: the next result, the next excision, the next possible return. Now every painting stands for one already removed.

There is a story in every tile. Only together do they paint the whole.

V Á K U U M is not a style. It is the residue of finding form in what could have been loss, made by a scientist who believes art and science are the same act: staying inside the question long enough for something true to surface.

01 · PHYSICAL ART

Trying to decide when this work was finished, I realized that nothing is ever finished. Drying is a verdict, the moment you concede that this is the final form. So I stopped trying to control the image and focused on what could forever flow. I was always drawn to galaxies, cells, the unknown, and the way complexity can turn into simplicity. Acrylic poured, flooded, and mixed on tiles resonated with that most.

While it moved, it was alive.

More than 100 works taught me what is hard to put into words: that material can carry what the body cannot explain. Not as comfort or escape, but as a way to stay with what is usually neglected.

02 · DIGITAL ART

Tech has always been a magnet to my mind. As a kid, it was games. As a teen, it was music. Later, it became knowledge, escape, and a doorway into the non-conventional. Now it has become an extension of the creative: a way to give physical impossibility another form of life.

The digital layer became a second surface, where what was once finished could begin again. Not as replacement, but as reincarnation.

A way to take what was placed ad acta and give it another chance of expression.

03 · AUDIOVISUAL ART

Before any of it was still, it was moving. This whole series is an exploration of digital post-processing: shaping what is usually treated as noise. Maybe it is noise to you. Not to everyone. That is part of the point.

When the physical work dried, something felt strange. It was sealed. Finished. Decided. But I did not experience it as final. The digital version is not a copy. It is another reading of the same source, the best one available in that moment, and never the last one.

What was missing was time. A painting holds motion after it stops. Video lets that motion breathe again. This next part is not a final answer. It is an attempt: to see what else the work can become when image, time, and sound begin to affect each other.

“DIMENZIA”

WHAT COMES NEXT

The thesis was simple: before any of these works were still, they were liquid in motion. I recorded the paint as it bled, dried, shifted, and settled. Then I gave the footage the same visual language and let it meet sound. The work that had been frozen returned to the state it was born in: moving, unresolved, alive.

More than 400 hours of hand-tailored frames came from the same curiosity that started the whole series. It ended only because I had to return to the physical work again. I am not afraid of what comes after. I was already asking, back then, the question everyone is asking now: if a work is shaped with something autonomous, is it still human art? I think yes. A person who steers the machine has not stopped travelling. They may simply reach places they could never have walked to alone. The unknown was always part of the work.

So now the question is not whether the work should leave the room, but what kind of room it wants to become. Maybe that is social media. Maybe it is an audiovisual exposition, where the work becomes a space you walk inside. Maybe it is additive technology, bringing a third dimension into the organic language of V Á K U U M. Maybe it is a platform where visual artists and musicians meet, not as decoration for one another, but as collaborators in a shared language. Or an AI extension of my liquid art. All of it is what vakuum.app could become. Something will land there.

That is the next aspiration. To let the work keep moving, and to help others find the people their work may already be waiting for.

None of it is finished.

That is the only way I would want it.

Because the paint was never meant to dry.

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