2013
A
configuration of a random set of plants, a tenuous coexistence of
beings related in the precise manner of their belonging to a species
and thus to a common habitat determined by their position in a
climatic zone.
Wild
plants of ordinary presence that survive the winter. The same that
often appear, stylized, to represent nature, the real one, in the
sacred paintings from the late Gothic to the Renaissance.
Captured,
condensed, crystallized and immortalized in a moment of the season in
which the landscape, waiting for the awakening, is limited to
essentials of humble appearance...details prevail.
Traces
of plants "fixed" on fabric, sometimes with almost radiographic
similarities, as scientific findings; maps of plants created
exclusively by the weather, by the beating of the rain and the weight
of the snow.
Traces
generated by the known, apparent, chaos of the constant elements of
the cold season. Ten prints for "studying", as a herbarium "a
impressione" (as those realized with a method, that consisted in
sprinkling a plant with carbon black, which was then pressed between
two sheets, leaving its mark).
"Constellations" of plants that refer to the firmament.
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Casabianca,
Bologna IT
Curated
by Gino Gianuizzi
01-10) Herbarium
Imprint
moulds created with the falling rain, carbon and ivory black pigments
on cotton fabric (10
x 70 x 50 cm);
11) Installation view.
© Gedske Ramlov