epoxy resin, textile, metal, wood, mika powder, st john’s wort
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.
The artwork depicts a whimsical, fantastical creature with a combination of human and animal features. The colors used are predominantly earthy tones of brown, yellow, and green, creating a natural yet surreal aesthetic. The overall composition is dynamic, with the creature's elongated limbs and crouched pose suggesting movement and energy. The artist has employed a distinctive sculptural technique, crafting a tangible and imaginative figure that blends the boundary between the real and the imagined. This piece may reflect the artist's exploration of the relationship between humanity and the natural world, inviting the viewer to consider the fluid boundaries between the ordinary and the extraordinary. ...
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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