Ilkka Halso is a Finnish artist who investigates the relationships between architecture, technology and nature, through photo-realistic renderings and collages set in natural environments. In “Tree Works”, light structures are built around existing trees with the aim of protecting them and, at the same time, of turning them into a sort of “living museum” of nature explorable by a public. Nature is somehow commodified and transformed into a spectacle to admire from very close. The architectural language is that of the scaffolding, transitional structures used to build a construction or to refurbish it: the act of connecting metal poles to natural environments engages a surreal discourse based on man’s paradoxical attempt to preserve what he’s currently destroying. This theme is the specific subject of the series “Restoration” (2000-2005).
Source/more: http://socks-studio.com/2014/03/04/the-paradox-of-nature-preservation-works-by-ilkka-halso/
Cesar Biojo:
Cesar Biojo paints beautiful oil portraits, just to destroyed them immediately afterwards, creating a mesmerizing effect. The concept of time is introduced, depicting concepts inherent in the human being such as creation and destruction, the perishable and ephemeral. Cesar Biojo’s work recovers post-impressionist styles, resulting in a very personal language. Taking as starting point the quote of Jean Paul Sartre, “The gaze of the other makes us aware of ourselves”, his work becomes an introspective study of human beings, their conflicts, their nature and existence.
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