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New York-based artist Roxy Paine’s work fuses organic with mechanical, making life-like replicas of natural structures in man-made materials. His stainless steel trees manage to retain the sense of spontaneity that we expect from organic objects, while being completely machine-made and rigidly planned. Paine’s highly detailed reconstructions of natural phenomena explore the tension between the natural and the built. In his piece Crop he carefully reconstructed a small patch of wild poppies and his piece Weed Choked Garden brings a decaying garden to eye level. By bringing reconstructed natural objects into a gallery setting you’re forced to consider things you might have ignored in its usual setting.
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Roxy Paine

Roxy Paine is an American artist and was educated in New Mexico at the college of Santa Fe and in New York at the Pratt Institute. Since 1990 his work has been exhibited internationally. His work examines processes of growth and decay, creation and entropy, on both man-made and natural levels. From the artist’s best known tree sculptures to works based on weeds and rot to his automated painting and sculpture machines, Paine continues to return to questions of environment as related to the viewer. Encountering his work, often in public settings generates connections between the viewer and other bodies that surround the space, whether the artwork itself or the other objects present. Paine’s work is represented in major museum collections worldwide, and his recent large-scale installation, Maelstrom, is currently on view in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Collectively, his works demonstrate the human attempt to impose order on natural forces, depicting the struggle between the natural and the artificial, the rational and the instinctual.

Paine’s meticulous craftsmanship brings to mind the work of model makers employed by natural history museums in didactic displays. He concentrates on poppies and fungi from which hallucinatory drugs are made. This particular piece displays various types of fungi, both beneficial and deadly that lie on a laminate floor. Each mushroom is modeled, cast and hand painted with incredible realism equal to that of traditional painters of the nineteenth century. One of my favourite aspects is the fact that it is so real, some are sitting up straight as though they just grew out of the floor whereas others look like they’ve been there for a while, rotting. I think that pieces like this one are easily read, due to the fact that it is made with incredible attention to detail, which makes it a little more universally accessible. The random clumps of mushrooms make the piece look a lot more realistic and it is unexpected, which is really refreshing.
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Roxy Paine (1966-) Nasceu em Nova York, onde vive e trabalha. Estudou no College of Santa Fé e no Pratt Institute, Nova York. Desenhos, pintura, objetos, instalações são utilizados em suas obras. Por meio de desenhos detalhados e programas de computador, ele executa com grande perícia a representação de elementos naturais discutindo a luta entre o artificial e o natural. Obras em grandes museus do mundo Participou da Whitney Bienial.