In a time of dissolution and instability, painting becomes resistance, memory, vision.
Behind the statement "Nature is Dead" we can read the multiplicity of events symptomatic of this destruction that has been unfolding before our eyes for a long time now.
"Nature is Dead" becomes a play on words, referring to the genre of still life painting, where the implications and correlations are numerous... what is a painted still life if not the silent and immobile representation of the transience of the things of the world, admonishing us all to reflect on our destiny?
Nature appears as an emptied spectre, violated, reduced to a simulacrum, and precisely in this extreme condition, painting does not seek to represent its end but rather questions it, passes through it, and transforms the logos.">"Nature is Dead"
In a time of dissolution and instability, painting becomes resistance, memory, vision.
Behind the statement "Nature is Dead" we can read the multiplicity of events symptomatic of this destruction that has been unfolding before our eyes for a long time now.
"Nature is Dead" becomes a play on words, referring to the genre of still life painting, where the implications and correlations are numerous... what is a painted still life if not the silent and immobile representation of the transience of the things of the world, admonishing us all to reflect on our destiny?
Nature appears as an emptied spectre, violated, reduced to a simulacrum, and precisely in this extreme condition, painting does not seek to represent its end but rather questions it, passes through it, and transforms the logos.