Video: Sculptures about how civilization puts pressure on nature. The work of Pim Palsgraaf
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Where wild animals used to roam freely, trees and grasses that have now disappeared from the face of the earth grew, where birds, exotic at the moment, built their nests, today factories smoke, cars drive, houses are built, people walk … and often - in the immediate vicinity of large industrial centers and densely populated areas. No, I do not want to say that this is bad. From our point of view, no. But animals are gradually dying under the yoke of civilization. About this - unusual sculptures Pim Palsgraaf … The work of this Dutch artist may seem too pretentious to some, but primitive to some. Say, the favorite tactic of young contemporary authors is to play on a topical, burning topic, and thereby attract the attention of the public, and then come what may. The main thing is to learn, to speak. Well, we do not know what kind of thoughts were swarming in the Dutchman's head when he conceived a series of sculptural structures in the form of animals and birds, crushed by architecture. But he fell into the very heart of the urgent problem of interaction between man and nature.
The creative workshop of Pim Palsgraaf is located in the industrial area of Rotterdam, and he knows firsthand what it means to absorb the emissions of cars and industrial enterprises every day, and overhead to see not a blue transparent sky, but a grayish-gray smog hanging like a hood over the city. Probably, such a picture inspired the sculptor for a series of works about animals and their suffering. Moreover, the inspiration was so bright that the sculptures turned out to be naturalistic. Even a little scary …
The author used stuffed animals of dead animals, perched on top of them with structures made of wood, metal, rubber and plastic. The constructions depict houses, factories, and other buildings born by the city. And animals only humbly accept what we can offer them … These and other works of the author can be seen on his personal website.
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