In parallel to his monumental installation Artificialis at Musée d’Orsay, Grasso developed Future Herbarium, a body of painted and sculpted flowers executed in the manner of nineteenth-century herbariums, shaped by observations of different species of flowers that mutated after the Fukushima disaster in Japan. Exhibited alongside it, Solar Wind, a video installation also presented at the new Jeonnam Museum of Art, South Korea in March, explores concepts of science, belief, illusion, and fiction, based on the artist’s interest in solar storms and space meteorology. Grasso explains, “I designed the project around my interest in theories about the sun. Solar Wind, shown on a LED screen, and as a site-specific projection, is an object that shines on the other works. Thus, the project relates solar rays emitted through the video onto the herbarium, as if they were exposed to these rays.”
Also on view are new works from Grasso’s emblematic series, Studies into the Past, which he initiated in 2009, reconstituting methods and imagery used by the Italian and Flemish masters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including Italian Jesuit Giuseppe Castiglione (1688–1766), who served as an official portraitist for the imperial court through the reign of three Qing emperors in China.
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與奧賽美術館大型裝置《人造物》並行，格拉索創作了《未來植物集》系列，根據對日本福島核事故後變種的花朵的觀察，他以十九世紀植物圖冊的風格，繪畫及雕刻出一系列怪誕的花朵。與此系列同場展出的錄像裝置《太陽風》（Solar Wind），則基於藝術家對太陽風暴和太空氣象學的興趣而製成，闡述了科學、信念、幻覺和小說等概念。此作品亦會在三月於韓國全羅南美術館的開幕展中展出。正如格拉索所說：「我是根據對太陽理論的興趣而設計了這個作品的。LED屏幕上顯示的《太陽風》是特定地點的投影，是一個照在其他作品上的物件。因此，這個作品透過錄像所發射的太陽射線，與《未來植物集》產生關聯，就好像它們暴露在這些射線下一樣。」
展覽亦呈現藝術家的標誌性系列《研究過去》（Studies into the Past）中的新作。系列始於2009年，重構了十五和十六世紀意大利和佛蘭芒大師使用的繪畫手法和意象。當中包括意大利耶穌會傳教士朱塞佩·卡斯蒂廖內（Giuseppe Castiglione）（1688–1766）。他在三位清朝皇帝的統治下，一生中大部分的時間都在擔任中國朝廷中的肖像畫家。
LAURENT GRASSO: FUTURE HERBARIUM | 洛朗·格拉索《未來植物集》
Exhibition Dates: March 20 – April 24, 2021 | 3月20日至4月24日
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