“How to find the solution of the beautiful?”, The artist wondered Soledad Seville when he captured natural motifs on the floor and walls of a gallery. The relationship between artists and Nature has always been a symbiosis of perplexity and transformation.
In our country there have been several authors who have flirted with the ideology of Land Art or Art in Nature. Christ, one of the pioneers of this artistic trend, did not hesitate to build a Mesopotamian mastaba with 7,566 barrels in Hyde Park. At the same time, Perejaume asked us if it was possible to move a tree and he would climb an oak tree to the Palau de la Música in Barcelona with a crane.
How to order this creative chaos?
The artists who find inspiration in Nature in these times have several unquestionable references: Esther Ferrer, Through the performance and the happening, he reminded us of the importance of inhabiting the space by walking in a continuous line and “walking” the pavement. Eva Lootz, with his own work of interaction between matter and language, he even goes so far as to reprimand us: “We are not masters and lords of the Earth, but we belong to it.” And it offers us a facility with ramshackle technological floors, with cables and electronic waste, in a clear metaphor for our galloping denaturation.
In this documentary by “The Green Beetle” different artistic experiences that speak and dialogue with the landscape are addressed. At Festival Luz Madrid We were able to accompany various artists who used light as raw material and night as canvas. This is the case of the anonymous Collective of urban interventions in public spaces
Art on Earth – LuzInterruptus
“LuzInterruptus”. Since 2008, they have carried out ephemeral interactions around the world with garbage, recycling, inhospitable environments and social demands in Nature. In the Plaza Mayor in Madrid they exhibited a 20-meter mural made up of thousands of notebooks of sheets in the wind written by those over 40 municipal residences:
“Life goes on between white sheets”, a true memory collage in times of Covid. Also with light projections and development of artistic geometries on natural spaces, we were surprised by the work of Javier Riera in the Retiro Garden, “El Eje Arbóreo”. This Land Art artist revealed to us the scientific basis of his proposal: it is a mathematical program that draws these geometries, made jointly with Rosalina Fernandez, professor of organic chemistry at the University of Salamanca. In that application, they include golden numbers and Fibonacci sequences, numerical relationships that are already present in Nature. Javier Riera pursues through his artistic research the connections between the scientific and the spiritual and tries with geometry to describe the aspects of the intangible energy that is in Nature itself.
Art on earth with dialogues with the landscape of the mountains of Toledo
To close the cycle of the importance of reuniting with Nature, we accompany another group, “Conversations with the Landscape” in the challenge of an artistic intervention “in situ” in the Montes de Toledo. A proposal, “Mapa Topoético” by five authors and university professors from the world of painting, sculpture and photography.
Five pieces in five milestones that connect them to the earth through the different elements and materials of Nature: seed soils, sticks, stones and mud. These five authors measure the steps in search of centrality with the idea of a closed figure: the circle. A space that begins and ends in itself, like Nature.
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