Nathalie Djurberg's 'Claymations'.
Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg's intricately constructed claymation films are both terrifyingly
disturbing and artlessly sweet.
disturbing and artlessly sweet.
The new works created for the Venice Biennale explore a surrealistic Garden of Eden in which all that is natural goes awry.
She exposes the innate fear of what is not understood and confronts viewers with the complexity of emotions.
Nathalie Djurberg was awarded the silver lion for a promising young artist at the Venice
Art Biennale 09.
(http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/6886/nathalie-djurberg)
Research Djurberg's work in order to answer the following questions;
What do you understand by the word 'claymation'?
Claymation is a type of art where people present art work by clay into animation, Claymation was noted when plasticine were invented in the 1897. The cartoon been showed today is where the Claymation been presented. The Claymation gives lots of children entertainment and also gives the new idea to show a story. the first day when the cartoon was discovered, it was produce by sketching movement and till 1897 the claymation was made, it became model movement. The clay was made into different character and by using the computer to create the movement for it. The Claymation has made a starting point to the worldwide. It has created a new face to the cartoon industrially.
What is meant by the term 'surrealistic Garden of Eden'? and 'all that is natural goes awry'?
“Surrealistic Garden of Eden” can be separate way to said it, Surrealistic means not real and Garden of Eden is a place where the first man Adam and his wife Eva lived. The work Nathalie Djurberg created, have describe the meaning of “Surrealistic Garden of Eden” which is not real but its revealing the outlook of the Garden of Eden created by God.
'all that is natural goes awry' this meaning have lots of option to viewer because it might mean how human’s movement changes or it could be the natural environment is changing.
The artist Nathalie Djurberg has made gives the feeling that she’s showing changes of human being, most of the models have different eccentric, and sexuality have approached to her art work. I think the behavior of human thinking sexuality is the main thought to these sculptures. She wanted to show how human think in sex.
What are the 'complexity of emotions' that Djurberg confronts us with?
The emotion of her art work is to show in a range of different feeling of people’s thoughts, with this thought she present as a sculpture, the work she have produce is something that everyone does. The emotion that she has in her sculpture are enthusiastic and desire to have opposite sex. A quote said by Shakespeare “God has given you one face and you make yourself another”. I think this quote have fit to this idea of the art work, the god have gave you one face and you made another one to be face with the emotions of different aspect.
How does Djurberg play with the ideas of children's stories, and innocence in some of her work?
In her work she shows the human fantasies. Colourful, harmless children stories. Its also for adults uses, but in a very secure way.
There is a current fascination by some designers with turning the innocent and sweet into something disturbing. Why do you think this has come about?
The work has a fascination idea which has attract people to have extra thoughts around the artefact. In the era, people treated the portrait of naked people were the best type of art work, and treated others artwork not as good as realistic drawing, but in the postmodernism the idea have changed, the sculpture she has created have been brought attention to the world. By using the olden day artwork torque into postmodernism artwork.
In your opinion, why do you think Djurberg's work is so interesting that it was chosen for the Venice Biennale?
One reason that was been chosen is because most of the work she have show is quite disturbing to me, but it’s very interesting that she’s making it disturbing but also very interesting, the changes of the human being is been shaped out by her sculpture.
Add some of your own personal comments on her work.
I think the work she have produce is a way how you feel about other people because in these artwork it presented violence but in a very harmless and colourful ways and this give the positive thinking to the viewer. And it is very interesting how she created this work, which is a very eye catching.
This gives me a lesson that always thinks about the issue how people view your own work.
'Experiment' (2009) Venice Biennale
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