Art and Culture
POLAND
Pawel Althamer
by Giulia and Laura
A large room populated by
creatures halfway between the
and the alien: this is the space
‘Polish artist Pawel Althamer,
Arsenale at the Venice Biennale.
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To do this, Pawel Althamer used the mold
to create the faces, an ancient technique
that used for funerary sculptures. The
casts were made of ordinary people who
have “given up her face,” the artist, who
has made real masks with various
expressions.
You can see greys bodies, molded to the
point immerse ourselves in another
planet. Men, women and the elderly, are
the protagonists of this world.
E a c h s c u l p t u r e t a ke s o n d i f f e r e n t
positions from those
engaged
in
conversations with
those who are resting,
lying on the ground by
those who grasps the
objects of their work.
They are very special
even look so much as
to seem real.
These faces are contrasted bodies just
mentioned, in which the forms are
outlined in an ‘alternating’ solids and
voids. The material wraps bandages with
a slender structure and basic, more like a
mechanical gear to which a human
skeleton.
As stated in the same Althamer, this
system leaves the viewer the freedom to
interpret the world through their feelings.
These works can be found in the Biennale
of Venice.