SUPERNOVA
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| Creator | Elleke Hageman |
| Year | 2015 |
| Bio | Elleke Hageman [NL] immerses photography and sculpture into singular pieces with emphasis on formalistic and content-based interaction between the two different entities.
By assimilating forms, derived from an original, into new shapes she researches the impact of the new manifestation on its origin. This constitutes an environment in which the separate elements refer to each other. The artist sees the physical body and other natural entities as abstract shapes and uses those to formulate a narrative in her sculptures. Furthermore natural phenomena occur in the alteration process of the materials with which she works are often implemented in the final result whether as an inspirational source or an asset. |
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| Website | http://www.ellekehageman.com/ |
The sculptures represented in this exhibition are a consolidation of a combination interests of the artist. In first hand we see the interest in cosmological phenomena and the relation thereof to mankind and the human body. Secondly we see the interest of the added value of sculpture to the perception of knowledge.
Since a large part of the human body, 96%, is made up out of 4 elements which are created in the formation of a star and iron and other metals are created during the formation and the death of a star. The artist sees a clear connection in between the human body, the universe and metals. The produced sculptures are a search towards how the human body and the cosmos can be related in a single sculpture. Therefore different metals and depictions of the body play a large role in the work.