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Books as creative material, apart from the narrative format we attribute to them as readers, can offer endless creative and plastic expressions, adopting in this way another narrative role.

Resulting in many and varied ways of representing the same reality, the photographer and artist Guy Laramee, is an expert in capturing the essence of the landscapes he has the opportunity to visit.

After photographing them, he locks himself in his studio and creates these surreal reproductions. The natural and architectural landscapes represented in these models belong to the Biblios and The Great Wall series.

READ IT IN SPANISH: El artista Guy Laramee recicla libros convirtiéndolo en paisajes

They are sculptural works that reproduce landscapes carved in old books, in which no detail is missing. Revealing serene mountains, plateaus and architectural structures, which are integrated into these natural environments without altering them.

The organic sculptures of the artist Federico Gomez link the raw material used in their elaboration to the formation of an identity, whether it is forest residue or fallen trunks. He adopts them as his children and through the form of a tree he narrates in first person what he perceives.

Weaving an experience that he shares visually with other living beings, a gesture that seals his commitment to his natural environment. Dictated in an ecological key, the message travels through the transformation of the landscape where each piece is located.

Inspired by nature and each and every one of the elements that inhabit it, giving it its logic, he perceives each sculpture he makes as a totem. Through which to contemplate the world with a certain calmness and taking the necessary distance.

A CONTEMPLATIVE JOURNEY FROM THE GENESIS OF NATURE.

Reminiscent, except for specific nuances, of cave art, at least in terms of rhythm and expression. That draws on ancestral ethnic art to connect us with our past and show us what our future may be like.

The elaboration of each piece, therefore, involves applying high doses of temperance. Because it has a lot of craftsmanship technique involving a laborious process, where the characteristics of the environment are a major influence on the final result.

READ IT IN SPANISH: Federico Gomez, arbol y raíz como expresión de nuestros origenes

Born in Madrid, he lives in the town of Bustarviejo, where Federico has the appropriate environment surrounded by forests and in the middle of the mountains of Madrid where he works in the calm. Carving specimens of trees whose final result, whether individual works or sculptural ensembles describe a journey back and forth.

Where the roots and identity are a journey where the natural environment is always present. Manifesting itself in each hollow, in each and every one of the silhouettes and the fragility they represent before our eyes.

Jaakko Pernu is a landscape sculptor of Finnish origin, who bases his work on techniques in which he reuses branches and plant debris, which he collects in the surroundings of the installation site, waste that after selecting them.

Making monoliths and geometric figures, which are inspired by the fragility of a landscape cut by curvilinear shapes. The specific interventions on the territory usually play with some contradictions or antithesis, such as: the light combined with the general shape of the elements that make up the landscape where it is intended to integrate.

Or in another sense in the aesthetics and contour as well as the texture, color and texture of the organic matter. Or even in the case of Jaakko in the subtle translucent forms, which contrast with a solid structure that as a whole conveys a message of commitment and communion with the natural environment.

His sculptures are often designed on a large scale, with which he achieves an immediate visual impact due to the great contrast with the territory in which he intervenes. With this method he gives his works of art a tangible reading as well as a poetic lyricism that establishes an equidistant point between the spartan and the creative of the landscape and its narrative performance.

NATURAL SCULPTURES REFLECTING THE POETRY OF THE LANDSCAPE

Brilliant works where the geometric shapes adapt like pieces of a puzzle fitting in a magical way with the peaks of the trees, as if they were the product of a natural process. Jaakko explores the influence of humans on nature and vice versa in an endless cycle as if it were a Moebius strip.

And where above any other consideration prevails innate intuition and a respect for the natural environment with which he establishes a dialogue, through which he tries to create a unique and complicit language. A language whose dialect is both universal and secret, and behind which there is a refined work, which explores the influence of human beings on nature and vice versa.

READ IT IN SPANISH: Jaakko Pernu, esculturas hechas con ramas que invocan lo ancestral

Jaakko's work is motivated by the artist's experiences, during his childhood in Finland, where he was always helping his father to build boats, manipulating wood into organic forms. That experience with creating elegant forms is reflected in his large-scale Land Art sculptures. Pernu's preferred working material being willow branches, which he weaves with his own hands.