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#loss of life
#grass
#set up
February 26, 2021
Grace Ebert
In Tadao Cern’s sweeping set up “French Exit,” a cloud of feathery grasses looms over the room. The immersive paintings juxtaposes the ephemeral, dried materials with the viewers who stand beneath because it creates a soothing and introspective house to contemplate the notions of farewells, whether or not or not it’s the shut of a celebration or extra profound experiences, like the top of a relationship or loss of life.
Cern tells Colossal that the title refers back to the colloquialism about leaving a social gathering with out saying goodbye. “That is one thing that I often do as a result of as an introvert, I can’t bear with the eye that you just get when you say that you must go. A ping pong recreation begins of, ‘I’ve to go,’ and ‘please don’t go,’” says the Lithuania-based artist (beforehand) says.
Emitting a gentle glow, the long-stemmed grasses connect with each the natural nature of the life cycle and the human want to situate ourselves inside a broader context, notably when confronted by ageing and loss of life. Cern writes:
I attempted to focus extra on the facet of what we’d be lacking probably the most over the last seconds of leaving this place.. My guess (is that) it could be one thing banal, like fields of wheat in the course of the sundown… Banality is a results of such a robust love and affection with one thing/any person that you just even get sick of it. And hanging every part on the ceiling creates an phantasm of floating for the viewer as in case you are being taken to the sky.
Cern completed preliminary sketches for the set up—which additionally contains CGI parts and a large arrow pointing downward—simply earlier than the primary wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Months later, he was identified with melancholy and nervousness, coincidental timing that altered his understandings of loss of life and the way we collectively say goodbye. “As soon as the pandemic is over, hopefully, we’ll have an opportunity to ponder our farewells in actuality. If there may be such a factor,” he says.
Buy prints of the artist’s meditative initiatives on Patreon, and observe his newest installations on Instagram and Behance. (by way of Ignant)
#loss of life
#grass
#set up
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