The weightlessness by bulgarian artist Atanas Patsev - movie

This is documental movie for the famous painting "Weightlessness" by bulgarian artist Atanas Patsev. His system consists of 9 squares (3×3), organized as a modular configuration. Each square is an autonomous field in its own right, yet the connections between the individual elements (paintings) are established through their geometric and plastic environments. To these, connections along the diagonals can also be added. In this manner, the images themselves are also connections.

The mechanical connections between the squares do not function as an outer frame, but as an extension of the internal logic of the images. That is to say, the boundary between the squares is not a neutral intermediate field, but an active plastic space in which the connections between the environments of the elements continue, amplify, or transform the painted forms, movements, and tensions.

Each square can occupy any position within the grid and can be rotated at 0°, 90°, 180°, and 270° (4 orientations). All squares are structurally and plastically equivalent in terms of logic, yet distinct as individual elements (meaning the images and compositions within them are different). The connections between the environments guarantee that the logic remains valid under any configuration, which constitutes the conceptual constant of the polyptych.

With 9 squares (a 3×3 system) and the permutation of positions, 362,880 combinations are obtained, while the rotation of the squares yields $4^9 = 262,144$. The total number of combinations is $362,880 \times 262,144 = 95,126,814,720 \approx 95 \text{ billion combinations}$.

To be able to view a polyptych with 9 segments, 125,000,000 seconds or more than 35 years of non-stop viewing are required. To paint all of its variations, a million years would be needed, and the continuous ribbon of these variations would stretch 187,000 km. Since all these years and kilometers are gathered within a physical square of 141×141 cm, which is perceived in a conditional moment, are these not, then, tunnels through time and space within the medium of artistic expression of the objects depicted in the polyptych?