Video: Works inspired by nature: unusual books and paintings by Johannes Helden
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The Russian writer Nikolai Garin possesses the sacramental idea that "nature is the best book written in a special language, and this language must be studied." Works by Johannes Helden can be an illustration of this aphorism, since the artist with special skill combines man-made and natural creations into a single whole.
It would seem that even at school we were taught that there is living and inanimate nature, but, apparently, Johannes Helden categorically refuses to distinguish between these two concepts. Just as everything is interconnected with everything in nature, books and plants are organically intertwined in his works. The author himself admits that he loved reading all his life, had a special passion for poetry, therefore he sees his calling - in storytelling. However, traditional forms are boring for him, such methods of visualization, in his opinion, are more effective.
Nature is central to the work of Johannes Helden. What are the water lilies "growing" on the book cover, or the amazingly realistic trees on the banks of the river, framed in a picture frame. An incredible lightness is felt in the artist's works, it seems that a breath of wind is about to be heard. Johannes himself explains that, despite the fact that natural diversity is gradually disappearing, there is still hope and faith in the best, the artist associates the possibility of progressive changes with the education of love and respect for the world around in people.
By the way, the idea of combining books with nature has repeatedly appeared in art. Perhaps one of the most ambitious ways of its implementation was the project to return books to nature by Rodney LaTurelle and Thilo Folkerts. It is significant that artists from different countries are united by the desire to convey to people the idea of the need to protect nature with the help of various art objects.
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