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Spuds Moyogi
Ran across these articles on Azuma Mokoto's "Shiki" landscape sculpture. The trees this guy is using are apparently bonsai ordered from suppliers in the country he's visiting. The Dallas Observer Article and gallery says he uses only the trunk and makes the leaves by hand from resin.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2...uma_makoto_s_botanical_sculptures_in_the.html
http://www.wired.com/2015/11/azuma-makoto-shiki-this-pine-tree-travels-more-than-you-do/
http://www.dallasobserver.com/event/shiki-landscape-and-beyond-by-azuma-makoto-7660960
None of the articles mention what's apparent to anyone familiar with bonsai -- the trees don't survive the exhibition ...
From the gallery explanation
http://zhulonggallery.com/azuma-makoto-2/
"Azuma conflates notions of landscape, portraiture, and still life traditions in western art to set up a striking bricolage of nature, artifice, and time which speaks clearly to eastern motifs in art."
"Seemingly a nod to momento mori, the artists’ framing of the tree with its exposed roots, living trunk, and hand-made resin leaves, unifies the natural and artifice, and creates a tense situation for viewing. Azuma goes beyond, however, and celebrates the eventual demise of the flora he sculpts. Not a warning, his creations are a celebration of the passage of time"
http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2...uma_makoto_s_botanical_sculptures_in_the.html
http://www.wired.com/2015/11/azuma-makoto-shiki-this-pine-tree-travels-more-than-you-do/
http://www.dallasobserver.com/event/shiki-landscape-and-beyond-by-azuma-makoto-7660960
None of the articles mention what's apparent to anyone familiar with bonsai -- the trees don't survive the exhibition ...
From the gallery explanation
http://zhulonggallery.com/azuma-makoto-2/
"Azuma conflates notions of landscape, portraiture, and still life traditions in western art to set up a striking bricolage of nature, artifice, and time which speaks clearly to eastern motifs in art."
"Seemingly a nod to momento mori, the artists’ framing of the tree with its exposed roots, living trunk, and hand-made resin leaves, unifies the natural and artifice, and creates a tense situation for viewing. Azuma goes beyond, however, and celebrates the eventual demise of the flora he sculpts. Not a warning, his creations are a celebration of the passage of time"