Julien Salaud: Stellar Caves
Mi ricorda le grotte di Lascaux
It
reminds me the Lascaux caves
Julien Salaud
Grotte di Lascaux - Lascaux Caves
Stellar Animals: Taxidermy Covered in a Web of
Stars
Julien
Salaud’s animal sculptures channel the spirit of the astrologers of old,
creating complex star like constellations on studded forms. He takes animal
taxidermy and hand built sculptures, attaching long nails and pins to them in
porcupine fashion. He then strings threads, sometimes covered in beads, between
the heads of the nails, creating highly complex webs where the converging lines
resemble stars. He calls the series Stellar Animals. Salaud’s work runs the
gamut of creativity, having produced a diverse collection of work. Most of his
themes revolve around nature: he creates flat bird imagery out of feathers,
sculptures from bone and even the azure blue, string-only installation at the bottom
of this post. You can find many more images of this talented artists work at
julien-salaud.info.
Take an Immersive Journey Through These
Luminous String-Art Installations
When we
last featured French artist Julien Salaud he was creating ‘Stellar Animals’ –
beautifully bizarre busts of deer covered in nails and thread. Now he is
continuing his cosmic exploration with expansive rooms wrapped in luminous webs
of constellation like thread art. He calls them ‘Stellar Caves.’ To create each
piece, Salaud uses thread coated in ultraviolet paint, weaving it around
thousands of nails to produce intricate polygonal representations of deer,
cougars, birds, people, and some creatures in between. His work is intended to
channel the mysticism and mythology of the past, but with their far-out
execution his pieces also evoke dreams of the distant future. Most recently
Salaud showed his installation ‘Stellar Cave IV’ at the Herzliya Museum of
Contemporary Art in Israel. See more of his work on his personal site or on
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by Benjamin Starr, www.visualnews.com
