ROD and the Domestic Partner French, b. 1977
Resin, real butterflies, insects, vegetation, photography, wood, acrylic painting, plexi cover
63 x 63 x 11 1/8 in
as exhibition abroad
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A golden land is shinning, a wounded place telling her own story.
However, nothing can stop spring flowers breaking out and growing up with a stronger force and elegance.
Each of them is colored with a different beautiful image from Thailand, along with real butterflies, branches and flowers, for a unique memory from Asia.
The artist meticulously cut plates of plexi imprinted with photographies into thousands of small cubes that he spreads according to a random or methodical logic belonging to subterfuge, thus recomposed a powerful pixilated, structured and excessive whole "bomb" that invades and takes over the space as well as the mesmerized spectator.
This fragmentation installation is spectacular and quite one of a kind.
Blossom 1 is a unique piece at research of live natural pieces from Thailand that combines art, architect, design and pops up the base in tissue.
The land of flowers and lives, that might be going to warp beyond the space-time, resembles closely the world seen with half an eye and exists in the boundary of dream and reality.
It combines thoughts and emotions from the past and today, that went out of the frame and out of the ordinary...
With a strong contrast and above all a lot of inspiration and imagination.
Provenance
Rod made this work on commission particular for "Blooming" Exhibition in 2021.It exists 2 different versions of "Blossom" of his creation.
Exhibitions
April-June: "Blooming" Exhibition, Art Thema HéYī gallery, BrusselsLiterature
FRAGMENTATION"It is one thing to conceal, another to be silent"
In armament, a cluster bomb is an aerial bomb of simple design that explodes before reaching its target, scattering thousands of shrapnel that spread in random or precise directions, depending on the wanted effect.
In Art, the sharp manipulator of this bomb is ROD.
The process of Fragmentation gives ROD many possibilities to create, taking into consideration Art, Architecture and Design, without limit. It is a photographical, graphic, conceptual and intellectual work. ROD captures, fragments then mixes and gathers several powerful images to recompose a pixilated, structured and excessive whole that invades and takes over the space as well as the mesmerized spectator.
ROD dissects and reconstitutes to better denounce them the visions of society or humanity (pain, injustice, famine…) that cause him a physical, gut reaction.