Video: Sculptures-trees by Jorge Mayet
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Cuban author Jorge Mayet creates small sculptures in which, with amazing simplicity and ease, he conveys all the complexity and beauty of the natural world - so familiar and so unexplored.
Jorge Mayet's sculptural installations are replicas of imaginary trees, plants and other natural objects, but on a reduced scale. However, the author did not set himself the task of reproducing the originals in detail and accurately: on the contrary, in each work he adds something new, something of his own. A characteristic feature of many of Mayet's works is the demonstration of both the upper and underground parts of the tree. The author often "removes" the layer of the earth, and exposes the root system, which is in no way inferior in size to the above-ground part, and sometimes even surpasses it. Jorge Mayet uses electric wires, paper, fabric, acrylic as a material for sculptures, the combination of which allows achieving realistic characteristics.
Unfortunately, it turned out to be difficult to find any descriptions of Mayet's works or author's explanations about their creation. Therefore, you can either simply admire the sculptures of the talented Cuban, or try to figure out their meaning on your own. For example, didn't the author want to show us that everything visible is just the "tip of the iceberg", but in fact everything is much more complicated than we are used to imagining?
Jorge Mayet was born in Havana, Cuba in 1962. Solo exhibitions of his works are most often held in Spain and Cuba, while as part of group exhibitions of the author's works one could also see in Italy, the USA, and Mexico.
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