Ilie Duta - "nAve/aka Defense Shields -filtered through a romantic and slightly utopian lens"
- Ilie Duta
- Jun 17, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: 5 days ago
Artist: Ilie Duta
Year: 2023
Type: sculpture marble and multi-materials
Place: Timisoara
BoBa Artist: Since Fall 2023
Country: Romania
The artworks convey a message to raise awareness about contemporary human intervention in the natural balance, specifically addressing the precarious situation of bees and their inclusion on the list of endangered species.
It is a series with activist-ecologist tendencies, taking on a sci-fi appearance to encapsulate a sensitive topic in a rugged exterior.
This is done precisely to present the delicate situation in which bees are replaced by drones, an already patented invention.
The pursuit of uniqueness can be a professional flaw for an artist—this fact guided me in choosing contrasting natural materials, both fragile and yet so similar in their demanding processing (marble and beeswax combs).
The series of artworks is filtered through a romantic and slightly utopian lens, portraying bees protected by carrier ships on the verge of taking off to other planets in an imaginative interstellar journey.
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