Semester 2- Week One
Nathalie Djurberg's 'Claymations'.
Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg's intricately constructed claymation films are both terrifyingly
disturbing and artlessly sweet.
disturbing and artlessly sweet.
The new works created for the Venice Biennale explore a surrealistic Garden of Eden in which all that is natural goes awry.
She exposes the innate fear of what is not understood and confronts viewers with the complexity of emotions.
Nathalie Djurberg was awarded the silver lion for a promising young artist at the Venice
Art Biennale 09.
(http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/6886/nathalie-djurberg)
Research Djurberg's work in order to answer the following questions;
1. What do you understand by the word 'claymation'?
2. What is meant by the term 'surrealistic Garden of Eden'? and 'all that is natural goes awry'?
3. What are the 'complexity of emotions' that Djurberg confronts us with?
4. How does Djurberg play with the ideas of children's stories, and innocence in some of her work?
5. There is a current fascination by some designers with turning the innocent and sweet into something disturbing. Why do you think this has come about?
6. In your opinion, why do you think Djurberg's work is so interesting that it was chosen for the Venice Biennale?
7. Add some of your own personal comments on her work.
'Experiment' 2009 Venice Biennale
'Turn into Me' 2008
1. What do you understand by the word 'claymation'?
ReplyDeleteI think Claymation is another word of stop-motion Animation by using clay to model the character and moved slightly by hand. Each frame, or still picture, is recorded on film or digital media and then played back in rapid succession. The object is arranged on the set (background) played back at a frame rate greater than 10–12 frames per second, a fairly convincing illusion of continuous motion is achieved. While the playback feature creating an illusion is true of all moving images.
2. What is meant by the term 'surrealistic Garden of Eden'? and 'all that is natural goes awry'? I think the term of Surrealistic Garden of Eden in the way she made nature of emotions in a terrifying and artistic way. It's beautiful and terrifying in one piece and it looks like monster weird flower that some moment it's going to attack us.
3. What are the 'complexity of emotions' that Djurberg confronts us with? In this piece have complexity of emotions. there are Fear, Confused, Sexual, and Uncomfortable with the song by Hans Berg. His song is the most important part to express these feeling. One tells the story of a puppet who battles her own aggressive limbs. The second one features puppets who resort to all sort of brutishness in order to escape a hostile forest environment and the third one follows the sexual, their sexual and sacrilegious of power and submission.
4. How does Djurberg play with the ideas of children's stories, and innocence in some of her work? She made the girl that have no dress and in her eyes look innocent who attacked by villains.
5. There is a current fascination by some designers with turning the innocent and sweet into something disturbing. Why do you think this has come about? I think the artist try to provoke our society that in current situation, adults rise their children in a wrong way which teach them how to win, rich, selfish. It's like one canvas you can apply which color you want.
6. In your opinion, why do you think Djurberg's work is so interesting that it was chosen for the Venice Biennale?
I think her works are provoking out society in a way of innocent turn into disturbing thing. That's why the Venice Biennale has chosen her work to publish and reveal to world wide.
7. Add some of your own personal comments on her work.
Her works are pretty good because she plays with technology
to represent our children is under controlled by Television (From adult).
I think that it is her way of showing the opposite translation of the Garden of Eden. Compared to what everyone already thinks of its beauty and peacefulness. In my opinion it make is an interesting art piece and makes the viewer think. The scenes are very out of depth and twisted.
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