In this case the landscape comes out from the canvas to meet the observer, a microcosmic world made from park trash.
Euclide created several dioramas constructed from found trash such as plastic, foam, sponge, and fertilizer he accrued while walking in a park. These items helped sculpt a world depicting what the artist sees as the 'same kind of fake control over nature that allows us to be comfortable with the destruction of it'.
La instalación fue construida para la exposición 'Otromundomente: desilusiones ópticas y pequeñas realidades' del museo de Arte y Diseño de Nueva York.
The installation was constructed for museum of Arts and Design's 'Otherworldly: optical delusions and small realities' exhibition in New York City.
Detalle de la evaporación / Evaporation detail |
La hierba está hecha con pegamento, pintura y cabello humano pintado / The grass is made from glue, paint and human hair |
Gregory Euclide works primarily with paper, using it not only as a surface to which he can apply paint, but as a primary material. He is an artist concerned with the interstice of nature and humanity, and he has taken as his primary line of inquiry epistemological questions regarding experience and memory. He is a painter of landscapes, but not a landscape painter. For Euclide, landscape serves not only as subject matter, but as a metaphor for the process of transformation and decay that is at the heart of human experience.
Sources: Designboom, ArtSlant
Webs relacionadas: 'Otromundomente: desilusiones ópticas y pequeñas realidades', Flickr, Gregory Euclide
Related websites: 'Otherworldly: optical delusions and small realities', Flickr, Gregory Euclide
Salvando las distancias (kilométricas), no sé por qué pero me recuerda a "Etant Donnés" de Marcel Duchamp:
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