The world is burning and we feel it burn like we have never felt before. Desperately we look for an explanation for the nonsense of exchanging human civilization for a handful of dollars as if dollars had meaning outside of it. We look for explanations and we look for a way to express what we feel. In that precise moment of human desperation is when art takes on true meaning.
The prehistoric man was afraid. He then painted in the caves and sculpted CXB Directory protective gods looking for an explanation. Since then we have painted demons gods torture monsters and death . We have painted crucified and also dead of cholera impaled decapitated skinned. Our artists today try to visualize what an ecological death or a post-ecological life would be like.
In the lobby of the Serralves Museum we are welcomed by a small forest of birch trees in pots resting on a bed of water and fallen leaves. The freshness of the water and the birth of the plants contrasts with the branches charred by a circle of artificial fire that burns the leaves. The Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson known in Spain thanks to the Elvira González Gallery where last year he presented “A look at what is to come” exhibits his work simultaneously at the Tate Modern in London and at the Serralves Museum in Portugal . In the case of the London museum “ Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life ” is a large retrospective of this artist in which he plays with human perception through a simulated fog a fictitious rain or an imaginary window.
In Porto a dozen large-scale works belonging to his most recent work in which he questions concepts such as custom humanity society art or science. Visualize the environmental and sustainability problems we face. The world is burning and Yellow Forest places us in the middle of the fire. We burn and we burn in an image that will take time to erase from our minds and that will trap us hypnotically. We will find it and look for it every time we return to the lobby.
In the Serralves gardens on the manicured lawns of this naturalartificial paradise we will find three large sculptures from the Arctic Tree Horizon series . Large logs of six or seven meters carried by sea currents and collected on the Icelandic coasts. Stranded bodies. Transported. Wood fleeing from fire. Vegetable meat fleeing from the burning. Trunks that paint the lower part with toxic and carcinogenic tar. Round trip death.
發表於 2024-3-16 13:33:20
