This vibrant and dynamic sculpture features a striking blend of colors and textures. The dominant red and orange hues create a sense of energy and passion, while the intricate, sculptural forms evoke a sense of movement and transformation. The overall composition has a strong, imposing presence, with sharp, angular shapes that suggest a mythical, fantastical creature. The artist's innovative use of materials, including fabric and other organic elements, lends a sense of tactility and depth to the work. This piece seems to explore themes of power, metamorphosis, and the natural world, offering a captivating and thought-provoking interpretation of the human experience. ...
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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