Video: Realistic about the unreal. Scary real sculptures by Patricia Piccinini
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Realistic looking sculptures are nothing new in the art world. And Madame Tussaud's wax figures are from the last century. Nowadays it is fashionable to use modern biomaterials and silicone, so that the sculptures would not look like mannequins, but like living people who seemed to have stopped for a moment, thinking about something of their own, and are about to wake up and continue their journey. The works of the Australian sculptor are also "real" Patricia Piccinini … Moreover, her sculptures look so alive that it becomes scary. Indeed, due to the peculiarities of her work, Patricia brings fantastic creatures into our world, settles them next to children and adults, and then demonstrates all this to us. And everything would be fine if these creatures were not so ugly …
For her unrealistic sculptures, Patricia uses silicone, human hair, fiberglass, real clothes, leather, polyurethane and many other components. The author's works refer to such a new trend as biopank, whatever that means, and the purpose of these works is to investigate the animate nature of a person, and to find out how much the "alien" is allowed to differ from us, so that we recognize him as "ours." Where is the line between man and animal, man and robot, "ours" and "strangers"?
Probably, if humanity met with real aliens, they would be dismantled into nuts, unscrewed into cogs, examined up and down to find out what is in them, all the same, differently. And only children accept us all for who we are, without feeling, not noticing - and maybe not attaching great importance to the differences.
It is known that in addition to creating her fantastically real sculptures, Patricia Piccinini also works in such genres as drawing, painting, and video. More information about the work of this extraordinary author - on her website.
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