A review by Art and Science writer Johanna Kieniewicz Pascale Pollier – The body physical Pascale Pollier, Female Écorché, 2009, mixed media. Image courtesy of the artist and GV Art gallery, London The physical aspects of the body are, indeed, the most obvious and most immediately conducive to sculpture and portraiture—but it is a rare artist who can make us feel them. It’s not just about skill in re-representing what we see in the mirror, it’s about what’s beneath the surface of the skin. Female Ecorche by Pascale Pollier is an unusual self-portrait, one that – literally – penetrates beneath the skin, with the muscles of the body exposed in exquisite detail. In the sculpture, headphones are set on the ears but the wire is connected to the heart; it seems to inhabit that inner world we experience when in contemplation, or just trying to block out the external world on the Tube. Pollier’s Day of the Lipids was moving in an entirely different way: dealing with plastic surgery in Western culture, liposuction needles are connected to a network of tubes pumping something resembling blood. It is a visceral installation that makes us feel the body through seeing it. The experience isn’t entirely pleasant, but then neither are our bodies, necessarily, when it comes down to it.
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exhibition at Central House of Artists, International Confederation of Unions of Artists, Moscow12/10/2012 scientific art 2: NON & DIGITAL: SCIENCE ART 2 September 22-26, 2012 The Central House of Artists in Moscow in the Moscow Art Week, 119049, Moscow, Krymskiy val, 10 Tesla’s Angst The Baby in Tesla’s Angst was sculpted with Super sculpey , I chose this material because it has a very skin like quality and sculpts as easy as wax. It absorbs the light very well and has a translucency to it which gives a realistic skin-like appearance . The placenta and the umbilicus cord were made in the same material, though afterwards I gave it a layer of clear slightly flesh tinted psycho paint, to give it a wet look. The placenta looks stone like, petrified, and not spread out and flat as it would be in real life. Underneath the placenta is an MP3 player with the sound of a Geiger counter detecting radioactivity The placenta representing our food source, our energy source and mother earth is petrified, terrified by the nuclear radiation and no longer functioning well The baby representing our species in the future, helpless as a newborn child but in terrible trouble as a very sick deformed newly born… Nicola Tesla would turn in his grave.. set up of the exhibition The far future is Nature
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