Venus Diessen

Première Vénus en bioplastique (d’origine végétale) et au coeur d’or (doré à la feuille d’or),
elle fait entrer en dialogue l’artificiel et le naturel, le temporel et l’intemporel,
l’éphémère et le pérenne, le végétal et le minéral, le vivant et le non-vivant.
En réactivant ces charges symboliques, la sculpture opère alors, à la frontière de l’eau et de l’air,
une jonction entre l’histoire des hommes et l’histoire de l’art.

 

The Venus emerges from water of the Reusel River.
She has a graceful body playing with forms, she’s made of bioplastic, more precisely with PLA filament for 3D printing, but no 3D printer is to be used.
Her heart attracts light and reacts with the wind. It’s gold, more precisely,it’s covered in gold leaf, unalterable and eternal.
Thus Venus Diessen sculpture creates a dialogue between artificialness and nature, time and timelessness, ephemera and sustainability, vegetal and mineral, the living and non living.
By reactivating these symbolic elements, the sculpture operates a junction between the history of man and the history of art, on the edge of water and the air.
PLA (polylactic acid) is a biodegradable and bioactive thermoplastic derived from renewable resources, such as corn starch, tapioca roots, chips or starch or sugarcane.

 

 

 

 

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