Mardi 19 Mai 2015 11:14:45 par Clarisse Treilles dans Expositions

n an increasingly urbanized civilization we tend to forget the power of Nature.
The four artists we present at ART15 relate to nature and the forces of nature - each in a different way.

The photographer Helene Schmitz is interested in the relation between man and nature. As opposed to the presentation of nature as the Lost Paradise which has been recurrent throughout history of art Helene Schmitz shows an almighty nature with only one agenda: survival and permanent evolution disregarding Man’s ambition for control and order.

© Helene Schmitz, The Green Room

Pipaluk Lake provokes “planned accidents” by exploiting the alchemy of glass and metal. Her sculptures appear as “stopped movements of material” that hold a beauty recalling water, rocks, ice, stalactites or an underwater world. Her works seems as a prolongation of Nature’s own principles.

Esben Klemann uses the soft clay to construct rigorous grid structures that he subjects to fire and gravity. Thus the manmade construction is transformed by the subtle forces reigning inside the kiln… The desire of the artist to see and discover how the elements will interact with his creation materializes in the sculptures through a playful approach.

© Pipaluk Lake, Drops VII

Min Jung-Yeon has studied nature very intensively since her earliest childhood. In her refined yet very powerful drawings and paintings she combines detailed knowledge of organic and mineral structures with geometric and architectural elements. These different “natures” are revealed either as “specimens” that allow us to have a closer look - or they meet in ambiguous embraces of tender support or fatal “caresses”.

© Min Jung-Yeon, Île II