Magnolia x soulangeana

Petra shows the outer beauty and wonderful mathematics of nature and removes restrictions of scale and materiality from her subject matter by transferring it to the digital world. With a great eye for detail, she makes a three-dimensional drawing, composed of a grid of vectors and colors of the chosen subject. This digital grid then forms the basis for a play of lines which shows the digital, vector interpretation of the natural phenomenon in materials such as wood, aluminum, metal or silk, in combination with a sample of colors that the original once possessed.

This work of art consists of two parts of aluminum and is finished in a pink lacquer and cream-white powder coating. In between the two layers is mouth-blown colored glass in the hues of the chosen natural phenomenon. Partly due to the change of light during the day and because the artwork hangs 1 cm from the wall, it is a dynamic work of art.

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PETRA HART
Magnolia x soulangeana
Mouth-blown glass between aluminum
2021
48x40 cm
Double sided
Unique
 

Magnolia x soulangeana is hermaphrodite. The flower petals, stamens and ovaries are arranged in a spiral on a cone-shaped flower shaft in six sets. This flower construction corresponds to the oldest known fossil flowers and is one of the first flower plants about a hundred million years ago. Bees and bumblebees did not exist then. The magnolia is pollinated by beetles. Hence the thick petals. The work of art is part of the art series Treasures in detail. More information