Towards Perfection

Zaur Gahramanov

Year2025

MediumOther

Custom MediumTECHNICAL NOTE: The attached photographs show an initial, fully welded prototype of the artwork. For the Chianciano Biennale 2026, the artist is officially proposing a scaled-down (180 x 80 x 70 cm), modular version. This final exhibition piece will feature a sophisticated, hidden locking system that allows the sculpture to be disassembled for compact international transit and seamlessly reassembled on-site.

Dimensions 80 × 180 × 70 cm

Price€5500 EUR

This sculptural work traces the inner spiritual journey - the path through pain and suffering that elevates a person to a perfect being, an "Übermensch". Here, suffering is presented not as an accident, but as the main condition for human growth. No experience can change a person as deeply as pain and push him so strongly towards inner transformation.

The transformation of the soul is associated with pain, which both forms boundaries and forces a person to overcome them - the sharp, chaotic lines of strokes radiating outward from the figures serve as a visual projection of these deep inner turmoil, chaos and fragmentation of the soul before rebirth. Such an inner metamorphosis is necessary to achieve the state of perfect being - the "superman". Only by accepting this process can an individual transcend himself, achieve spiritual freedom and inner wholeness