Tamed nature and the unpredictability of our cultural development
The very title of this installation of paradoxical references points to the inversion of the usual notions of reality. At the exhibition opening, the artist lay motionless on an ash carpet, the crocodile skin tied to his back. Visitors could enter the installation on a footbridge and let themselves be touched by the willow branches and reed stalks hanging from the ceiling. On the back wall it was written: "excuse me sir are you crocodile dundee?", a reference to the film character of the semi-wild man who dares to approach the untamed. The crocodile skin is painted in a modern urban design pattern. In this installation, outdated ideas of the future meet contemporary feelings of helplessness and melancholy.
Tamed nature and the unpredictability of our cultural development
2001 Willow, reeds, scaffolding, ash, pebbles, leather, acrylic paint, 360 x 1040 x 360/400 cm, Galerie m.o.d.o. (Oxid), Winterthur
Cultural development Acrylic on the wall
This simple diagram relates to human balance in space.
While earlier cultures found support in the spiritual connections to the universal forces, people moved away more and more towards the search for stability in the material "middle world".
