Video: Dead Garden - garden of dead trees
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Deconstruction - the desire to disassemble and reassemble in a different order - is one of the fundamental techniques of postmodernism, regularly used in literature, painting, sculpture and even cinema. And here is the artist Carlos Teixeira applied deconstruction when creating an urban parka with green spaces.
The artist Antony Gormley has been carrying out artistic deconstruction of his body for many years, creating unusual copies of it again and again. But Carlos Teixeira decided to transfer such experiments to trees. So his work with the name Dead Garden appeared in one of the parks of the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte.
Dead Garden's work appeared as part of the White Nights Festival, the organizers of which, for several days, pampered the residents of Belo Horizonte and guests of this Brazilian city with musical, theatrical and poetry performances. Moreover, the very name of this event was inspired by the natural phenomenon of the same name in St. Petersburg. And the main goal of the organizers of the festival was to popularize collective outdoor entertainment in the above-mentioned city.
The installation Dead Garden represents several once living trees, which, at the direction of Carlos Teixeira, were cut into pieces and assembled in random order.
Thus, Teixeira wanted to visually illustrate the attitude of Man towards Nature in general and specifically the fact that most of the large cities in the world clearly lack green spaces. And the vegetation that exists there is sandwiched between asphalt, houses - not a trace of the once existing natural integrity has remained. As a result of these pernicious processes, a person, even walking in the park, finds himself only in a deconstructed version of a real forest - broken and reassembled not in the best version.
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