Video: The Gordian Knot: Wood Installation by Henrique Oliveira
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Painter Henrique Oliveira Is one of the most active environmentalists. His work is a real hymn to nature, its unique beauty and diversity. Recently, the master presented an original wood installation called "Baitogogo": interlacing of branches and white columns.
We have already written about large-scale installations by Enrique Oliveira on the Culturology website. RF. The artist "paints" pictures from the finest cuts of wood of different species, and also "revives" trees, creating curved trunks from countless small chips.
This time, the talented Brazilian combined architecture and sculpture: trees suddenly appeared in the exhibition hall of the Tokyo Palace in Paris. Their curved trunks have become an organic part of the concrete columns. The author himself believes that this is a metaphor for the Gordian knot, the contradiction that is brewing between nature and man, his urban activities. Astonished viewers can see how wooden branches literally "tear" massive concrete floors.
Enrique Oliveira and his team have been working on this installation for over a year. It is symbolic that the project used wood collected by the artist at construction sites in his native São Paulo. The style of his work Enrique Oliveira calls "tapumes", which literally means "doca", "hedge". Planks that served as a fence on a construction site are transformed into works of art in the skillful hands of the master.
Of course, the chaotic tangle of branches and roots intertwined with support beams and a grid of columns is mesmerizing. The intense dynamism of the design evokes ambiguous emotions, and the question of whether humanity will be able to cut this Gordian knot remains open.
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