Solo Exhibition Prometheus fire
Art Exhibition Title: Prometheus flame from Teuta to Artemis
Delve into the world of intense mythology, imagination that floods the Adriatic Coast with mysteries from the concept of Prometheus flame given to the Human kind despite the wrath of the Gods, to the Cadmus and Harmonia that entangled the Queen Teuta, eventually Artemis hunted in the direction of space travel
Introducting the narative of collection
Curatorial Statement: The Flame of Prometheus gets carried away from Teuta to Artemis
At first there was a flame, it extended, exploded, traveled unrestricted, entangled into the chemical ooze of the forming of galaxies, multicellular life was born in the blink of billions of years keeping the circle of life unchanged until this same flame took form intentionally.
Civilization was born but at the price of the suffering of Prometheus. So many sacrificial moments were had throughout history as we go forward to the times of Illyrian kingdom and even further forward into a tiny fortified town of Rhizon, where the flame is ongoing in this very moment within each of you reading this text, breathing in and out in the rhythm of life, in the rhythms destiny. This is a story about flames that make life worth living, truths that get revealed only when Bacchus or Dionysus liberate the subconscious from the conscious restraints that society or “fitting in” constructed in our perceptions.
This exhibition traces that flame as both origin and inheritance. It is a force that animates matter and spirit alike, carrying within it the paradox of creation and destruction, ecstasy and burden, instinct and form. Here, fire is not only an element, but a metaphor for consciousness itself—for the restless impulse to make meaning, to transgress limits, and to search beyond both in feeling and thought while standing still in this moment igniting it with our own flames.
inspired by Fire, breathing in and out and life in/out of death
Extract from one of the paintings in this series
“Whereas the upper layers of delights and lighthearted existing belongs to the safe world our future might bring and devoid us from power at the same time. In its imbalance, I hope for balance in Mediterranean style, glad to be back home in the golden middle.”
A Weightless Bird going through Samsara
Observing the change of time, as it starts standing still the faster we move out away from the roots
Irina Ideas short bio
Irina Ideas a multidisciplinary artist, born in Montenegro, made of foreign genes and exported at an early age to Western Europe and USA, later China. An international career was started at an early age as a classical pianist, later expanded into the domains of painting, sculpture, writing and futurism while playing with sustainable and business sectors. Studied wide spectrum of subjects and trying to understand this phenomenon we call life, madness of society and time/space/gravity. Now actively involved in the domain of art between time based arts (music,video, AI) and space based arts (visual), publishing www.musebuz.com about artists and demystifying art to wider audiences through live streams and other participatory digital windows to the world.
As an active multidisciplinary artist participating in the international residences, exhibiting work both in physical localities and online presence and recently is researching, experimenting and publishing about technology and how it is merging with the society and our shared future, also often touching upon the topics of psychology, philosophy, future of work, mythology and history, some of the writings reflecting different facets of various “unrelated” fields are available on personal website www.irinaideas.com.
Some of the selected pieces for Prometheus flame
painted between 2020 and 2024
DEATH ACTIVATES LIFE
Entering life as one exits death, the internal fire keeps burning, bubbling and organizing as time stops.
lIFE ACTIVATES DEATH
Exiting life as death becomes imminent, drawing everything into that one infinite spot, tiny dot, invisible to the scientific eye, yet, yet, yet, yet….
A BIRD EATS ITSELF AND THEN PUFF
IDinosaurs kept the circle of life until there was nothing to eat, but they kept eating into the darkness and that very darkness brought life back againes
AN ANGEL OF DEATH
There are only fragments in the collective consciousness about the fire beyond, on the other side of life, sometimes it feels so obvious and yet it is inaccessible
PROMETHEUS FLOWS
In Alchemy only fire is considered an element that will almost certainly burn the alchemist who focuses solely on it and so it happened to Prometheus and so many others who kept the flame burning and it was absolutely worth it. To live a life of an automaton in 21st century when we are surrounded by AI and machines is unforgivable to us humans who are so much more than a calculation, then a sum of 4 genes in the genome code.
FIRELY REBIRTH
Being reborn like a phoenix through the passions of fire, we go forward, breaking free from what nurtures us the most, expanding into something unimaginable, only if/when conformity dissolves.
MATURING
Nothing is ever finished, but everything matures, fire consumes the enthusiasm of youth, it exhausts itself and slows down, manipulations of survivals, dominance and subordination become useless, things slow until center is found yet again
Some of the selected pieces for Prometheus flame exhibition
painted between 2020 and 2024
THE LIGHT, LET THERE BE NO LIGHT SO THAT WE CAN FIND THE ESSENCE
Just upstairs while downstairs is bathed in turquoise-blue light resembling the sea, opening infinite possibilities. The building around me is structured with the round walls. I see some people that I know or have known but are on the other of known. They talk to me but also to the self and the other. I hear the chatter and meditate, how nice it is to feel all those lines of communications? The connectivity of all and everything, not just among humans but also among buildings. Everything is alive, but we need technology to make this universally accepted, doors and walls feel in the same way as we humans feel. This makes them closer to us, because the way we feel is obligatory.
MERGING OF PARTICLES
Gravity pulls this illusion of existence of the organization of empty space as atoms are, these particles from nature in the shape of grass were captured to merge, to bring something wine like to the canvas that would want to live, to drink from the fountain of life
INTERNAL VOLCANO KEEPS MERGING
Merging with the source, merging with each other, process of movement helps us feel, magnetize and entangle through this most mysterious of all, love and Lava keeps moving
EXTERNAL VOLCANO DRAWS JUNGLE ON THE FACE OF EARTH
How much flame is necessary to keep the jungle alive, all the passions that merge the animals to each other, plants pushed to the maximum expertise of survival.
Participatory and immersive art pieces
Truth moment
Irina Ideas Klyuev
Participatory piece
Pieces of Canvas, pen, wine, brush
2026
Description:
When I think of Prometheus and the fire brought to Earth, it brings me back to childhood and the moments of discovery the Olympic games and symbolism that is exactly the same. Ancient civilization even though we idealize often thought in terms of invisible forces, what is it that makes the Sun move in the nautilus spiraling. We exist to self observe all of it while finding our own spiraling through what we call truth, while the flame goes on,…..
Instructions
Think of the moment in your life when you felt the most passion, the most life, the most exhiliration and write it down on a piece of canvas, there will be a brush that you will dip in the win and seal this moment of truth with the dot from the wine