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 Steve Miller, The Universe begins, 2010 | | |
The Brasilian rainforests are the lungs of our planet and I decided to give Brasil a medical check-up by taking x-rays of these lungs through the flora and fauna", explains Steve Miller. He traveled to the Amazon, where he plucked plants, took them to a hospital in Sao Paulo, and X-rayed them. The images are ghostly, but Miller doesn't stop there. He makes silkscreen prints over scans of the X-rays. While all photography arrests motion, it is only the X ray that allows us to climb inside a particular moment and subject and parse the structure of its beauty from within. Today, the natural world is under great stress and Miller's art metaphorically highlights a planet that is being sacrificed for human kind's progress.
Markus Graf ist ein Beobachter und Sammler, der das Meer seine Inspirationsquelle nennt und tausend Dinge, die Wasser und Leben zu ihm spülen, auf- und mitnimmt. Sein Sammeln ist konzeptlos, einfach geprägt von der Freude an kleinen, stimmigen Dingen. Diese Stimmigkeit in sich versucht Graf auch in seinen Plastiken zu verleihen.
Text von Rebekka Ray |