Herman de vries tree barks twisting
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LO2 and LO4: Understanding of audience within my marketing goals as well as ways of using documentation.
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Signature Image
I decided early on that I would use a signature image for each element of the publicity for the show. I chose one of the moths firstly because I considered it a successful image – it had already been selected in open calls at the Royal West of England Academy Bristol, at the Mall Gallery show of the Society of Women Artists and at the Woolwich Contemp
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The forest in contemporary art
Innocence lost: caught between city forestation and the club forest
While the idyll of Romantic era songs may be gone, creative artists in Germany still explore the forest today – critically, ironically and with an eye to history.
By Christa Sigg
The name Joseph Beuys conjures up fat, felt and rabbits – materials and motifs that appear in many of his best-known works. Perhaps the artist’s single more famous work was his tree-planting campaign during the documenta 7 exhibition of contemporary art in Kassel. In 1982, the del av helhet sought to transform the entire urban space into an artistic stage with 7,000 oak trees. This could also be considered an especially sustainable social sculpture, since anyone who donated 500 German marks (around 250 euros) to the planerat arbete was allowed to plant a little sapling that has matured into a respectable deciduous tree over the past four decades. The artist, who would have c
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ROBERT WILSON, Jan 6-Feb 11, with Herman de Vries, Craftspace, Winnipeg
ROBERT WILSON
MANITOBA: Jan 6-Feb 11, with Herman de Vries, Craftspace, Winnipeg
By Janice Rosen
Robert Wilson found his calling in turning wood that is still wet with life. Challenging himself with a difficult medium made even more complex by instability and inherent unpredictability because it is wet, Wilson fashions functional objects infused with rich beauty and organic sensibility. He uses local Manitoban wood sources, often searching out trees felled by a storm and incorporating a twisted beauty into his work through the inclusion of burls, bark and knots. Self-taught, Wilson has been woodturning for over 20 years, integrating colour and contrast with the addition of woodburned details, paints, dyes and metal work to further exploit the beauty of the wood’s cracks and flaws. At the Craftspace gallery this spring, Wilson exhibits with fellow woodturner Herman de Vries, another born Manitoban.