This image depicts a surreal, fantastical sculpture featuring a strange, hybrid creature. The sculpture is composed of various colors, including earthy greens and browns, suggesting an organic, natural quality. The figure appears to have a human-like face with pronounced features, but its body is distorted and incorporates animal-like elements, such as wings. The overall composition is visually striking and challenges the viewer's perception of reality. This piece likely reflects the artist's imaginative and unconventional approach to contemporary sculptural art, inviting the viewer to ponder the boundaries between the human and the natural world. ...
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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