Video: Explosions and disasters in Heide Fasnacht's installations
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Since 1997, Heide Fasnacht has been creating sculptures and drawings that depict explosions and disasters - sudden, violent and self-destructive. By minimizing the presence of a person in his works, Heide invites viewers to consider in every detail the tragic events, as if frozen in time.
What made the author choose explosions as the main subject for his works? Perhaps this will be clarified by a quote from the work “The Admirer of Vesuvius” by Susan Sontag, which Heide brings as an epigraph to his work: “One look at the catastrophe. This has already happened. Who could have expected this? Never never. No one. And this is the worst part. And if it’s the worst, it’s unique. That is, unique … One more look. What happened once, someday will happen again. You will see. Just wait. Well, it’s bold to see beauty and uniqueness in such terrible things associated with destruction and death.
In 2001, when the terrible events of September 11 rocked the entire planet, Heide Fasnacht decided to leave her "explosive" theme. After all, there was already too much pain and horror in the world to offer people the same in works of art. But a few years later, the world, if not forgotten, then calmed down, and Heide took up the old, not imagining her creativity without disasters.
One of Heide's most interesting works is the installation "Jump Zone". Please note that the apparent volumetric structure is simply painted on the wall! Such is the optical illusion, which helps to complete the "clouds" of expanded polystyrene and a few real "chips".
Heide Fasnacht was born in Cleveland (USA) in 1951. She currently lives and works in New York City and is also an instructor at the Parsons School of Design. Personal exhibitions of the author's works are regularly held in the USA; in Europe, Fasnacht's works were presented in Greece, Liechtenstein and the Netherlands.
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