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Grün Ist Immer Noch Wild, Wie Die Beklemmenden Farnwälder Der Vorgeschichte, 2020
2020
Digital posters
4 of 7 from
die chromatika/the chromatika
1080 x 1920px jpeg
RGB colour as black and white
July 2020
Zurich and Basel, Switzerland
Suddenly Last Summer
is the play Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) described as ‘perhaps the most poetic’ he had ever written. It is set in the Garden District of New Orleans at the home of a Mrs. Violet Venable, a socialite widow from a prominent local family. The action centres on the mysterious death of her adult son, Sebastian, the previous summer in Spain.
The play takes place in Mrs Venable’s fleshy, murderous garden described by Williams as resembling ‘the dawn of creation’.
In his stage directions, the playwright makes particular reference to tree ferns, or Cyatheales, the first large plants to colonise land and oxygenate the earth’s atmosphere. The tree ferns set the scene for the world of predation and bloodlust to come.
Fern Green/Farngrün
double-page spread from the artist's book
Die Chromatika/The Chromatika,
2021.
The artist writes:
I feel green is far from the peaceful colour most people think it is. Green is like the garden in Tennessee Williams'
Suddenly Last Summer -
'a tropical jungle in the prehistoric age of giant fern-forests when living creatures had flippers turning to limbs and scales to skin'. I feel green is as relentless as nature, just as insatiable and just as savage.
Ich habe das Gefühl, dass Grün weit entfernt ist von der friedlichen Farbe, für die sie viele Menschen halten. Grün ist wie der Garten in Tennessee Williams «Plötzlich im letzten Sommer» - ein tropischer Dschungel zu Zeiten prähistorischer Riesenfarnwälder, als die Flossen der Lebewesen zu Gliedmassen und die Schuppen zu Haut wurden. Ich habe das Gefühl, dass Grün genauso unerbittlich ist wie die Natur, genauso unersättlich und genauso wild.
