Video: Entropy and decadence: melting wax sculptures by Tatiana Blass
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The work of Tatiana Blass is multifaceted and unusual. Many people feel uneasy from contemplating several mystical installations by the artist, in which the physical state of objects seems to be relegated to the background, while the invisible and intangible comes to the fore.
One of the most interesting embodied ideas of the artist was wax sculptures, which are transformed during the installation into something shapeless and frightening. A kind of decadence of forms with a focus on the triumph of content. Microcrystalline wax is heated, a slow deformation of the object occurs - and the viewer can only appreciate the ins and outs of things and objects in all their beautiful ugliness. The horror of life, the horror of death, absurdity and entropy. It is not for nothing that Blass considers cognition to be one of the main goals of art. Knowledge through destruction, knowledge through change, through death. And … a rebirth in the end.
Tatiana Blass was born in Sao Paulo in 1979. She works at the intersection of the arts, skillfully bringing to life bold and ambiguous projects. She is equally attracted to painting, installations, sculpture, photography and collages. It seems that she does not distinguish between materials, and all forms are dictated exclusively by the concept of the future work. Her work has been repeatedly noted with prestigious awards, and Blass's work can be found in prominent museums in the United States and Brazil.
Despite the fact that throughout her career Blass gave preference to painting, it is hard not to notice the artist's interest in theater - in 2007 she first tried herself on the stage. The play "Deceit is the luck of the contented" was a great success. Blass has a very affectionate relationship with the theater and is now purposefully developing her dramatic pantomime technique.
Designer Bart Hess also uses wax in his work: he creates from it … clothes for his models. So, for the Future Perfect exhibition, he created original costumes and toilet details from this pliable, but so capricious material.
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