Wood is the soul of his art, these vegetative people standing on the wall waiting to be reborn...

Wood is the soul of his art, these vegetative people standing on the wall waiting to be reborn...

Art is both aesthetic and ugly. Works about art are always full of controversy. Art can guide your emotions and bring real feelings. Today we will take a look at this artist's works, his woodcarving works It always makes people love and hate it, and it always makes my heart hurt after reading it...Andreas Senoner's "Rebirth-Hands and Legs" 2018 The arms and legs are overflowing with dense branches, as if you can feel nothing from the pictures. Word of help. In Andreas Senoner's "Shard" 2021, the feet under the amputated limb are facing each other, and there is a strange atmosphere in the inexplicable fit. Andreas Senoner's "Shards" 2020 was shattered by a toothpick, but continued to stagger on. Andreas Senoner's "Roots" 2020 Occasionally he will cover it with other organic materials, feathers and lichens and other materials combined with wood figures, like specimens of animals and plants, but also like variations of new species... 01 Wood is his art work Soul These woodcarving works that are difficult to judge beauty and ugliness come from the hands of Italian woodcarving artist Andreas Senoner, who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and the Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia, Spain, and is dedicated to exploring media such as painting, photography and performance art . He tries to convey a sense of discomfort to people through his works, so that people can personally experience the impact of this visual sense on their physiology. In 2006, Andreas Senoner received a scholarship to the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where he met the artist Kinji Akagawa and worked with him to further his study of woodcarving. From that moment on, wood became the material of choice for his expression. Wood is the soul of his artistic works. He began to explore the figurative sculpture of metamorphosis, memory and self in college. He reviewed the traditional sculpture process from a modern perspective, sought a close visual language between materials and narrative themes, and tried to establish a relationship with Audiences interact with each other in dialogue. Andreas Senoner uses the texture of solid wood to convey the passage of time and records his mental journey. His works can be said to be a collector of exclusive memories and a huge visual repository. 02 Passing emotions through wood sculpture "Cage" painted wood and feathers. In 2015, his sculptural figures usually show a transitional state of evolution, and the form is between plants and humans. Meanwhile, other "people" stand or sit in isolation, hanging on the wall, as if waiting for change to happen. He believes that the mortal body is only a temporary envelope for the mundane soul, and the sculpture is participating in a process of constant transformation, and finally uses the inner soul to shape an ancient and serious art form. "Number of Layers" wood, glass, iron, 2017, with eyes closed, with a peaceful and peaceful face, projecting the hope of birth to the inner world. "Don't Care About Nature" Walnut, 2019Andreas Senoner uses wood to shape loneliness, heart and human fragility, using wood to fabricate the concept of deformation to express the emotional and physical mutations that human beings experience in the face of great changes. All the fears, hopes and dreams are presented simultaneously in this work, they hide in the appearance of bird-like creatures and wait in silence, as if they are about to wake up from their slumber. The black feathers that cover these people don't seem to be a symbol of freedom, but a restrictive new identity from which they cannot escape, despite their efforts to detach. Andreas Senoner's sculptures take us back to ancient times, using a series of dead grasses to express complex natural contradictions, which are made even more intriguing by their sharp designs and shapes. Their eyes were wide open, seemingly dull, and there seemed to be an unfathomable abyss of thought in their pupils. In classical mythology, the fate of mankind depends on the unpredictable randomness of God. In these sculptures, if you listen carefully, you can feel the melodious and distant echoes of classical mythology. These figures are gradually dismembered and turned into "vegetative" and geometric shapes shaped by dry moss and manes. The people carved out of wood are still, shrouded in a mysterious aura, and the space is filled with an atmosphere of loneliness. In Andreas Senoner's "Short Body" 2021, we can experience the power of restlessness under the skin from the still picture, just like people can't restrain themselves in fear, the hesitation at the moment before the end of life is also vividly displayed, The toothpick penetrated the finger and conveyed a sad feeling of pain, as if holding the last trace of vitality. Will this woody body overgrown with branches slowly turn into a shrub? Are the feathers that encase people a protection or a hindrance, or the result of a punishment, or do they predict that the growth of the wings will set them free? We don't know this, maybe only when you go to Andreas Senoner's exhibition to see it for yourself, you will get a new understanding. 03 Two cultures, one space Andreas Senoner's woodcarving exhibition goes far beyond the original world view. He wants to make people rethink the development of science and technology, the change of nature and the change of human thought through the visual impact brought by a series of woodcarving works. relationship between transformations. On December 10, 2020, Andreas Senoner was specially invited to participate in the exhibition in Qingdao, China. At the exhibition, by comparing the differences between Chinese and Western cultures in China and Italy, using art to intervene in contemporary cities and thinking about contemporary urban space issues, he proposed the relationship between space and people. , the existential and aesthetic relationship between animals, nature, society, and the city. Beautiful works are easily accepted by the world, while ugly works are easily controversial but more socially meaningful. So do you think Andreas Senoner's works are beautiful or ugly? Welcome to the comment area to communicate and interact~ Some pictures in this article are from the Internet. 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