Nicholaas Chiao: Art 2002 - 2024

List of All Exhibitions multidiciplinary projects from 2004 onwards

Impressionist Beginnings impressionist paintings from 2004 onwards

Time and Measures photorealist paintings from 2006 onwards

Nicholaas Chiao is Delighted to Present a Permanent Virtual Exhibition of Contemporary Conceptual Art: The Idols of Niertismus

Niertismus is an idea of ​​a new global religion and ethical-philosophical teaching invented by Nicholaas Chiao. Niertismus comes from the Russian abbreviation NIERT - Scientific Institute of Electronics and Robotics. According to the artist, it is precisely such an Institute that will be the link that will transform his religion into reality. According to the artist, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, an imbalance of power arose and worsened in the World when Western countries, mainly the United States, significantly overtook the world in scientific knowledge, technological discoveries, and inventions. China was able to start a new stage of competition. Still, Russia and Belarus, the core of the post-Soviet world, could not show worthy competition. They practically sabotaged their computer industry and, as a result, received a weakening of their currencies and a decline in influence in the region. As a result of the desire to maintain influence by force, Russia entered the war with Ukraine. According to the artist, this war is an unacceptable act for humanity. Russia's involvement in the post-Soviet world must focus on fair competition in science, economics, and culture. The computer industry and robotics are key industries that should have priority development and create a balance of progress with the Western World, not allowing inhuman conflicts but solving people's problems. Niertismus encourages man's desire for immortality and wealth, which, according to the artist, is achievable by correcting human errors and mistakes and living a safe and harmless life for others and the planet Earth itself. Nierthismus sees reasonable creation as a path to wealth. Niertismus sees non-harm to other lives as fully feasible in a scientifically correct future. Niertismus sees future human food as free and independent of harm to animals and plants. According to the artist, future humans will be powered by solar energy as their food and wear clothing embedded with solar batteries. Clothes will either feed humans with solar electricity directly or enrich the biomaterial of food with the sun's energy, like super-nutritious milk based on water, minerals, and a biological substance capable of being non-toxic food for humans. The artist believes in ethical food production using 3D printing technology. Also, in the future, all other products, from clothes to cars and robots, will be created using 3D printing. In the future, there will be no clear division of professions; people will have similar knowledge in science, technology, design, and art. The world of the future, according to Niertismus, will be a world of wealth, intelligence, and prosperity. Virtual reality will allow long journeys and interesting role-playing games like movies, and medicine and memory control will allow persons to experience old sensations again. An individual can live the life of an all-seeing tree in a developing new world and a miniature Thumbelina who can repeatedly fly around the Earth and other planets on her wings. The development of Biology, Medicine, and Robotics will allow all this.

The virtual exhibition consists of sculptures and paintings visualized by computer means. "Order of Days" is an abstract composition consisting of 144 parts and presents a metaphor for the human life cycle. Each miniature painting symbolizes the days, months, and years in a person's life, from winter to summer, youth to old age. The paintings symbolize birthdays and days of upbringing, the period of attending school and university, and the passage of years from summer to winter in adulthood, and the two lower rows suggest a musical rhythm that symbolizes old age. "Souls of Water" is a sculptural triptych symbolizing human consumer cruelty to plant life in crops' annual harvest and consumption. Humans have adapted to consume other life forms and often do not think about causing them pain or depriving them of life. The artist's ethical position is to stop cruelty among people by improving our relationships with other life forms. "The Gates of Eden" is a sculpture consisting of a minimalist shelf rhythmically filled with books on all educational subjects, suggesting the hope that a fully educated Homo Sapiens will enter a new period in the history of our planet - mythologically predicted as the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, will enter into an immortal life described in the Biblical myth of Eden, where Adam and Eve lived before committing the Original Sin and eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, eventually going all the way to the pinnacle of all knowledge in the Universe.

The Idols of Niertismus are reminiscent of the works of YBA and Damien Hirst and continue their visual and conceptual tradition.

Nicholaas Chiao is a Belarusian-American artist mainly known for his provocative expressionist canvases and photorealistic paintings of museum interiors. Nicholaas Chiao received his art education at the Belarusian State Academy of Arts. After immigrating to America, he continued his self-education through experiments, calculations, scientific theorizing, and practical experiments.

Eternal Rain of Beautiful Atomic Stability

2022, plaster, vinyl, approximately 50 x 50 x 8 inches, approximate view. This sculpture is a metaphorical reminder of the atomic-molecular structure of the world. It suggests a reminder of atoms and molecules as LEGO bricks building Universal worlds. The artist became actively involved in sculpture after he temporarily ceased to create and improve his paintings. Most of his sculptural projects were created from 2020 to 2022. He is primarily attracted to teardrop-shaped forms and rhythmically repeated particles, and the idea of ​​a LEGO-like atomic-molecular world has always inspired his creativity.

The Order of Days

This artwork consists of 144 parts created by Nicholaas Chiao and demonstrates a comprehensive, geometric-methodical search in abstract composition. This work is a metaphor for the life of an average person from the cradle to the burial.

The Gates of Eden

2022, Books, Paper, Steel, Approximately 50 x 30 x 19 inches, approximate view. This work symbolizes the methodical collection of all scientific knowledge leading us to the creation of the Uberman and the practical realization of the mythical Biblical Paradise on Earth. The artist uses the division of the whole into equal intervals and the rhythmic positioning of multi-colored books to create an aestheticized image of the bookshelf as an art object.

The Solar Woman

2024, mixed media. This beautiful anti-naturalistic sculpture represents the slightly militaristic beauty of an Uberwoman, a half-robot leading the World. The artist deliberately avoids classical anatomy to create a futuristic cubist statue, twisted and deformed according to the geometric and mathematical assumption of the beauty of forms divided into equal parts. The desire to eliminate the banality of the every day and the overlooked images of classical beauty drove the artist to create this sculpture, a portrayal of a woman supported by solar energy, a symbol of the New World.

The Death Sower Shall Become Death

2022-2023, fabric, paint, stones, plaster, aluminum, carpet, pigment, 70 x 70 x 15 inches, approximate view. The sculpture presented here results from several years of reworking, reconceptualizing, and refining a sculpture of a medieval leader killed in an ancient battle. The Artist uses stones, carefully combined, to represent the horrific mass of a human body pierced by an arrow at the umbilical cord. According to the Artist, many generations of people have given each other and other lives only death and so far receive only death in return. The eternal vendetta can only be stopped by a change of principles and a transition to a harmless, potentially endless life, achievable with the help of science and progress. The sculptural object visualizes the horror of murder. Observing the sculptural image of a dead man lying on a polygonal multi-colored surface offers an opportunity to understand the paradox of death, which science does not fully explain. This sculpture features a warm orange color scheme, complemented by cool stone accents and a black blanket fragment. The composition effectively utilizes the center of the sculptural space. This work is a creative dialogue and homage to the sculptures "Dead Dad" by Ron Mueck and "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" by Damien Hirst, shown at the exhibition "Sensation" by Charles Saatchi at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1997. This sculpture is a proposal to experience the fear of death to adapt to it and surpass this fear, living next to it, observing it, and surpassing it. The work aimed to stimulate the intellect and inspire the Artist's creativity. The Artist's life in expensive New York City was in a critical situation, and he was in constant danger of becoming homeless and ceasing artistic creativity, forcing him to intensively seek ways of self-preservation, obtaining wealth, and scandalous fame.

The Forms of Water

2022-2023, mixed media. This sculpture proposes to see the idea of ​​the diversity of life on Earth as a metamorphosis of raindrops, which, over time and repetition of life acts, begin to remember, acquire and structurally and chemically strengthen their new form, and then grow and enter into a struggle with the force of gravity and with each other to achieve a multiplicity of forms based on differences in the size and primordial position of the seed, growth rates, depending on the frequency and abundance of nutritional forms. The sculpture uses color schemes of the primary triads - red, blue, green, yellow, cyan, and purple. The composition uses symmetry, center, and rhythm; the primary forms are teardrop-shaped structures.

The Souls of Water

2022-2023, mixed media. This work is a reminder of the cruelty of the world of man and plants, sees the annual harvest as a stop of lives and the appropriation of plant bodies, and invites us to think about the existence, sensitivity, and possible vindictiveness of all life forms, as well as about the possibilities of man in synthesizing food by scientific methods, without interfering with the life and death cycles of animals and plants. A warm orange color characterizes the sculpture.

The Messengers of Death

2022, Sculpture. Here, one can see many different sculptures by the artist. All sculptures symbolize militarized ideal defenders and guardians - from a reminder of ancient Roman legions to modern autonomous robots.

The Solar Woman, Guardian of Heaven

2018, mixed media. This beautiful futuristic sculpture is an update to the visual practice of Henry Moore and Pablo Picasso. According to Nicholaas Chiao, in the 21st century and beyond, super-innovations and completely new ideas in art are almost impossible due to the familiarity and encyclopedic volume of all previous knowledge in the thousand-year history of art. All that is possible is the technocratic improvement of new versions of previously successful and perhaps forgotten styles and ideas. One can only invent something particularly novel when no encyclopedias of previous knowledge exist. However, someone can take a few pages from old books and thoroughly and vigorously improve them to a clear difference and superiority, using composition and color, working on details to reach a new level of quality and depth. This sculpture renders the idea of a sinless being - a solar energy-fed woman who is indeed the Guardian of Heaven.

Love as Form of Infinity

2023, canvas, oil, acrylic, sizes vary, approximate view. This pictorial composition depicts two lovers kissing.

Rocket Man, The Bull and Various Artworks in Artist's Studio in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York

2022, Sculptures. Since he arrived in the United States in 2004, the artist has set up a home studio. He created all his compositions and drawings there. From 2020 to 2022, the artist actively created sculptures and installations. The drawing, based on the popular computer game Rambo 2, is visible on the wall.