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Flower Power Festival: Miguel Chevalier – Fractal FlowersPop-up exhibition in the art container

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Fluorescent flower-like formations glow against a black background.
Copyright: Thomas Granovsky

The futuristic Fractal Flowers flower sculptures by artist Miguel Chevalier focus on the role of nature in the age of artifice.

This event is in the past.

The futuristic Fractal Flowers flower sculptures by artist Miguel Chevalier focus on the role of nature in the age of artifice.

In the Flowers Forever exhibition at Kunsthalle München, the artist Miguel Chevalier is represented with his overwhelming, room-filling work Extra-Natural. Using metaphor, the artist has created algorithm-based floral forms that poetically straddles the gap between nature and all that is artificial and digital. He explores the question of what “natural” actually means and the relationship between humans and nature. Using an approach that goes back to the late 1990s and is based on observation of the pant kingdom and its imaginary transposition into the digital universe, Chevalier creates virtual herbariums that allow him to fashion virtual gardens.

 

In addition to the exhibition at the Kunsthalle, four 3D-printed sculptures from of Fractal Flowers series will be shown in a glass container in front of the Gasteig HP8 as part of the munich creative business week (mcbw). These represent a bridge between nature, digital design and 3D object. Illuminated with UV light, the futuristic-looking flower sculptures are  an ode to nature that make for a forever changing viewing experience. The different creations reflect our world today, in which nature is ever more controlled and conditioned, and the artificial life that this has made possible.

 

In cooperation with mcbw (munich creative business week)