Get Surreal with Us
We tip our cap to Nathan/Nelson, a visitor who took The Workshop in an incredible direction when they created mini-installations and wrote accompanying wall text to describe their masterpieces. In this latest iteration of The Workshop diving into the exhibition Surrealist Play Gone Astray, our visitor understood the assignment and let their mind wander and embraced play to assemble some truly Surrealist artworks. By combining and altering everyday objects in such a way that they become fantastic or unfamiliar, Nathan/Nelson generated spectacular ideas for their Surrealist artworks.
HEART KEEPING
Nathan Passerat, 17th July 2022
This work by the French artist Nathan Passerat, entitled “Heart Keeping,” is a model of what love could look like. A simple heart, symbolizing union, held by two hands in a fragile balance, reminds us how love can be itself: fragile. The hands, for their part, seem to embody a harmony that allows the heart to hold. The artist brings us back to our own conception of love.
RIDE OF LIFE
Nelson, 17th July 2022
This work by the French artist Nelson, entitled “Ride of Life,” denounces the way in which children are more and more brutally thrown into the life. In a new and constantly changing world, the passage to adulthood is becoming more and more complicated. This is why the artist has chosen to place a baby, whose blue color recalls calm and innocence, on the back of a horse whose red color evokes ardor and tumult. The animal, still at walk, is calm, but no doubt that will soon start to kick, missing to unseat the baby.
DINO DONUT
Nelson, 17th July 2022
This work by the French artist Nelson entitled “Dino Donut,” places a T-Rex in front of a donut (one of the symbols of American gastronomy), the effects of the consumer society. By presenting it with a dinosaur, Nelson shows how easy it is, even for an extinct creature, to give in to the excessive consumption of our modern Western society.