Video: Mimesis - Printed Butterflies by Sarah Garzoni
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Butterflies are quite naturally considered one of the most beautiful and unusual creatures on Earth! Nature turned on all her imagination at full power when creating these beautiful flying insects. And the French artist Sarah Garzoni reproduces butterflies on … an inkjet printer … But not only for the sake of beauty, but also for the sake of meaning.
In April of this year, we told you about the winged installation Butterfly's Eye View, created by artist Eiji Watanabe, and consisting of thousands of paper butterflies sitting on the walls, floor and ceiling of a room. Today we will tell you about one more paper butterflies, they were printed on the printer by the artist Sarah Garzoni.
In her project "Mimesis" Sara Garzoni reveals to the whole world her love for such delicate and beautiful creatures as butterflies! That's just this alarming love! After all, these fragile flying insects face a huge number of dangers. Moreover, it threatens very strongly. From all over the world every now and then comes news about the disappearance of the next species of butterflies. So Sara Garzoni decided to draw attention to this problem with the help of her creativity!
Butterflies, like many other animals, insects and other living species on Earth, are destroyed not by specific people, but by our modern Civilization itself, with all its industry, marketing, consumerism, garbage islands and other unpleasant things.
Therefore, Sara Garzoni, within the framework of her project "Mimesis", examines certain elements of the modern world. And she examines them on the wings of paper butterflies printed by her on an inkjet printer.
For example, on one of these paper insects you can see a copyright sign, on the other - a target, on the third - a sign of radiation hazard, on the fourth - camouflage, on the fifth - spicy ads in newspapers, on the sixth - graffiti, on the seventh - the logo of a large transnational company, on the eighth - a barcode. There are more than two dozen such butterflies in Sara Garzoni's project “Mimesis”.
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