Jardin a la francaise - - - - deutsch
The formal vocabulary of the Baroque as a stand-in for an idea of history and its connected values. If Andre LeNotre,
the architect of the gardens of Vaux le Vicomte and Versailles would present a design for a garden today, he would most
certainly do this with form.z or any other 3-D graphic software. Detailed studies of the various elements might look like
these pictures. Turned in a perspective, that simulates the point of view of a 3.50 meters tall spectator, isolated, and
placed on a beige field of colour, suggesting the sandy ground. Illumination settings on ”diffused”and ”omni'.
Text by Dorothee Schmidt, exhibition, Jardin a la francaise and Substitutes
Originally a stage for extravagant festivities as part of life at court, baroque gardens are associated with sensual pastimes.
Visiting these gardens today, their prior function no longer exists. Often, the castles to which the gardens once belonged,
are no longer exisiting and in many cases the gardens have after many years of neglect or destruction, been re-instated.
In his series Jardin a la francaise, the artist plays with these notions of loss and rebirth. Divorced from it's
function, what remains is the form and with that a mis-en-scne for cultural history; the aesthetically glorified epoch of the baroque.
