Installation art of plants
Spring curtain call, summer carnival,
The plants in nature grow and bloom with all their might,
In order not to leave regrets in the unknown late autumn.
The artist brings a different perspective and explores the metaphors of nature.
Duy Anh Nhan Duc
France & Vietnam
He sees nature as the source of all his work, and through his constant exploration of his artistic language, he discovers that plants are a medium through which people interact with nature. In order to express the incomparable appeal of plants, Duy Anh Nhan Duc often looks back on his childhood, where he finds the most sincere emotion and love for plants at the beginning of his life. Therefore, he deliberately chose the plants that people had been exposed to in childhood— four-leaf clover, moss, hydrangeas, all kinds of seeds, and the most favored and always fluttering - dandelions.
Countless dandelions were gathered, cared for, and held close together. Each one is white and chubby, plush, tickling, leaving you with only one childlike thought in your mind – blow it off!
Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger
Switzerland
Titled "The Falling Garden," the fallen garden was completed at the Venice Biennale. Stars of flowers, berries and seeds are hung in the church of St. Euthage, and under the gaze of three Baroque oil paintings "The Martyrdom of St. Bartholò", "The Martyrdom of St. Jacob" and "The Exunciation of St. Peter from Prison", the flowers blooming today seem to interpret the miracle of the conversion of the medieval saint Eustace to Christ. Legend has it that Eustace was an ancient Roman general who one day saw a stag while hunting, and the cross of Christ was embedded in the magnificent antlers, and he instantly felt the oracle and was baptized with devotion.
One can lie on a soft bed specially prepared by the artist and look up at the dome of the church. The flowers are suspended in the air, and the bright crystals on the ground slowly precipitate from the solution. This may be the moment when the sacred deer descends, and the time is frozen. In this surreal space, people suddenly realize that the beauty produced by nature gives birth to faith.
Wolfgang Laib
Germany
Every spring and summer, Wolfgang collects a large amount of pollen in the countryside garden for use in a series of pollen works. Collecting and screening pollen and separating the peduncle from the powder with a yarn mesh, an act that had been repeated repeatedly since 1977, was seen by him as a "ritual", and the whole collection was more like an opportunity for self-examination. When we stop in the art museum, gaze at this eternal and unchanging natural thing, feel the time itself and the self, the distance between time and space is quietly erased here.
Pollen itself is not narrative, but this simple form of object contains the artist's thinking about faith.
What is left there is the deep beauty and thrill of all things.
Heidi Norton
United States
Growing up on a farm, Heidi has a deep attachment to nature and land, and after becoming an artist, she focused on exploring the relationship between natural ecology and photographic art.
In nature, the form of matter is always fickle. The seeds became towering trees, and they fell down into dirt. Plant roots tirelessly chase and catch underground rivers that come from afar, while the leaves push water into the air as clouds. Everything is cyclical, and plants happen to be a microcosm of natural ecosystems, growing and occupying and withering and retreating, impermanent and futile. Heidi wanted to record such moments, and photography became her best tool. By sealing the plant in glass, Heidi seems to have found a way to freeze the eternal, to find a glimmer of meaning in the infinite upward spiral of history.