Köln

A man stands in an area of parkland. He lays out a light, rolled-up canvas on the ground. Then he slowly unrolls it. He meticulously places some branches and twigs on the canvas, precisely where they were before he unrolled it.
'As the canvas is unrolled, twigs, some with leaves attached, are placed on the surface in positions corresponding to their original positions on the ground. The isolated elements gradually rejoin the landscape as the canvas decomposes.'
By isolating the branches and twigs on a white canvas, the artist also isolates the form, the infrastructure. He allows the material forms to speak for themselves. The edges of the canvas turn into the frame of the work, they delimit the scale of the work, namely, the number of twigs that the artis…
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