Video: Flora from fauna. Strange wax sculptures by Rebecca Stevenson
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
When factories smoke, cars hum, oil tankers crash in the oceans, and there are fewer trees and more and more hemp in the forests, only a lazy sculptor or artist will refuse to play the "green card" in his work. We are talking about the artistic interpretation of such popular topics in recent years as the closeness of man and nature, the peaceful coexistence of people and animals, environmental problems and catastrophes threatening our world. A London-based artist and sculptor is also participating in this "flash mob" Rebecca Stevenson, whose outlandish resin and wax sculptures are somewhat different from what the viewer would expect to see. Indeed, what kind of trick can be expected from an artist who shapes her work on the basis of a fertile concept of peace between man, flora and fauna, and under the unspoken motto "we all live on the same land"? But her sculptures, which look like white cream figurines topped with jam flowers, are actually not as simple as they seem.
Taking a closer look, we really see delicate flowers on the deer sculptures, but they do not mean life and prosperity at all, as it might seem, but suffering, doom and death. So in the work of Rebecca Stevenson, life and death, decay and prosperity go hand in hand, and beauty blows with a grave cold. The sculptor also depicts human skulls, severed heads of animals, as well as some representatives of the plant world with the same delicate, graceful and beautiful. Of course, not all of them are shown frail, pale and dying, but a hint has already been made …
Rebecca Stevenson has several fine art colleges, vast experience with a wide variety of creative materials and a very impressive portfolio. The artist is known as a participant in numerous exhibitions not only in galleries in London, but also in Copenhagen, Cologne and other cities in Europe and Asia. A gallery of works can be seen on Rebecca Stevenson's website.
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