One Last Trip to The Underworld...

12:00 a.m.

6/01/20 - Many galleries have opted to deliver what people want: exhibitions that provide opportunities to take a selfie and offer extreme experiences for the senses. The Tanya Bonakdar Gallery accepted the challenged and presented the artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg (both from Switzerland, 1978) under the title One Last Trip to The Underworld. The result? The exhibition was a huge success.

The artists mixed animation, sculpture and sound, transforming the room (which was almost in the dark) into a stage loaded with effects that played with our most intimate desires and the distortion of them. Thus, while in a movie, ceramic figures of grotesque features play scenes of jealousy, submission and lust, scored with hypnotic music, several sculptures representing flowers and birds are sprinkled around, creating a mood of dystopia, as if we were living a nightmare.

All together they create the special effect that made this exhibition unique: a frightening landscape, realistic and dramatic. It's a true performance of emotional narrative, with sex and violence, almost a Dantesque hell.

One Last Trip to The Underworld (Blue and Yellow Beak), de Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg (2019)

Materiales: pintura en spray sobre masa epoxy, acero y madera / Medidas: 88.9 x 68.8 x 68.6 cm

One Last Trip to The Underworld (Orange and Yellow), de Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg (2019)Materiales: pintura en spray sobre masa epoxy, acero y madera / Medidas: 121.9 x 78.7 x 48.3 cm