Earth Laughs in Flowers: Concerning the Soul
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David LaChapelle - Earth Laughs in Flowers: Concerning the Soul
David LaChapelle's work, Earth Laughs in Flowers: Concerning the Soul is a chromogenic print on Dibond produced in a limited edition of 3 copies and 2 artist's proofs.
In the center is a still life, with predominantly floral elements, surrounded by everyday objects: skulls, small frames with portraits, scattered fake coins, and a magazine.
The work Earth Laughs in Flowers: Concerning the Soul was created between 2008 and 2011 and measures 44.8x59.8 in.
The series Earth Laughs in Flowers
In the series made between 2008 and 2011, David LaChapelle investigates man and nature’s relationship. His creations remain faithful to the eclectic, whimsical, and surrealist style, with the princely subject of the past: still life.
However, in Lachapelle, nature becomes contemporary and decadent at the same time. At the center is an ever-changing floral bouquet, recreated in an almost hyperrealist manner. Surrounding the flowers that appear lush and magnificent are curious objects, such as birthday candles, toilet paper, cigarette butts, plastic doll heads, packaged snacks, tin cans, and more.
The artist's unmistakable style, which praises the Baroque, leads us to reflect on the fragility of contemporary society. Inspired by Dutch vanitas, Lachapelle reworks depictions of symbolic objects related to the conquest of earthly pleasures, offering his unique interpretation of human vanity.
In this dramatic yet humorous series, LaChapelle shows how man's natural condition is undermined at its base by the artificiality of everyday objects. The flowers in the compositions are distressed by the banality of the artificial objects, encircling them.
Humanity prides itself on being a child of nature yet it no longer belongs to it: it has been asphyxiated by the banality of objects, which become the hidden protagonists of this series.
"We are part of nature and connected to it, despite everything. I wanted to celebrate this relationship that should be recovered since we live in this kind of society.[...] I just started to think that human beings live a little too much outside their true natural habitat and that this should be rediscovered. This is my real homage to nature, surrounded and overwhelmed by everything that is part of our everyday lives."
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Soup, and he made experimental films like Empire.
From a stylistic point of view, he rejected the dominant painting and sculpting techniques and embraced silk-screen printmaking, creating his typical flat areas of color and sharp outlines.
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