This striking contemporary artwork features a unique sculptural design made from a combination of natural and industrial materials. The composition centers around a symmetrical, winged structure with organic shapes and textures, including feathers and dried floral elements. The piece contrasts these natural forms with a sleek, metallic vase-like center, creating a captivating juxtaposition of the organic and the man-made. The overall aesthetic evokes a sense of balance and tension, hinting at themes of duality and the interconnectedness of the natural and the artificial. The artist's intention seems to be exploring these conceptual ideas through a visually striking and thought-provoking sculptural work. ...
A great lover of literature, science, poetry, the occult, paganism, pop culture and strange and wonderful stories, Nils Alix-Tabeling produces a singular body of work that questions our future as humans in a rapidly changing world.
Resolutely symbolist, even surrealist, his sculptures, installations, paintings, texts and performances are full of references to magical and ancient practices, as well as to certain stories and legendary figures, both real and fictional. His work, which brings together heterogeneous and chimerical identities in a transhistorical, syncretic and intuitive approach, hybridizes categories of genre and the realms of the living and even the non-living. The result is a sophisticated, complex universe whose vital energy is devoted to making the invisible visible by dissolving the boundaries between reality and fiction.
He exhibited in Futur, Ancien, Fugitif at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2019, Possédé.e.s at the Moco in Montpellier in 2020 and at the Kunstverein in Dortmund and the Parvis in Tarbes in 2023. He works with the galleries Public in London and Piktogram in Warsaw.
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