Hugo Marek↓

About the work

The Zbuling Epic

Hugo Marek has spent his entire life on the Zbuling project. Zbuling is a philosophy based on the reinterpretation of nature for the modern age.

In Zbuling, nature is the source of all principles and a model for a new world system. Human nature reflects biodiversity in the form of cultural diversity, which is humanity’s common goal. Technological progress, finance, and all other tools serve the creation of a substance that radiates from beautiful natural landscapes as well as from epicenters of culture: Full of spirit. Individuals’ Selfs naturally determine the quality, character, and overall form of Zbuling. The operational economic system of Zbuling is accelerated by the exchange of cultural capital. The spiritedness pf Zbuling emerges from the harmony between order and chaos. Interesting things play out on all levels of greatness – in both natures. The core of creativity and imagination confirms man’s position as the driving force of cultural evolution. Once upon a time, a more powerful form of this core created everything from nothing. The goal of Zbuling in relation to artificial intelligence is to reprogram all of humanity’s culturedness into it so that technology, culture, and nature are combined into a cosmic trinity. Zbuling is the emerging era of humankind, and the Zbuling Civilization will be the first global and subsequently cosmic golden era of culture.

In its relationship to polyculture, Zbuling is fertilizer. Zbuling is a bundle of principles that we can „toss“ at any subcultural flower to help it maximize its flowering. Zbuling is neither a style nor a movement, but merely a saturator of existing cultural kernels. Zbuling fertilizes cultural potentials and tries to help them with all its being. The Zbuling Epic is thus a kind of visualization of a gradually fertilized garden and its growing biodiversity.

Hugo Marek’s The Zbuling Epic is a cycle of twelve paintings depicting the transition from today’s era to the era of Zbuling in one metaphorical year: January, I suffer in today’s era. February, I read Zbuling. March, I vote Zbuling. April, I awaken my inner ducks of the imagination. May, The strategy is ready. June, I transition into the new era. July, The old era trembles before Zbuling. August, I am betting on the new era. September, The first morning in Zbuling. October, The first afternoon in Zbuling. November, The first evening in Zbuling. December, The first biomimetic civilization!