Andriu Deplazes

This monograph  catalogue was published on the occasion of Deplazes' solo exhibition in Italy titled "Burning Green" at the Collezione Maramotti.  The dramatic imagery evoked by the title creatively reinterprets signs and atmospheres of Western painting from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. "Burning Green" suggests references to landscapes, the environmental crisis, and aggressive exploitation of the territory, as well as elements of the military sphere in the new works and traces of fluorescent colors that characterize the artist's pieces.

Deplazes’s work contains echoes of personal experience and fragments of current events, intertwined along two main paths of investigation: the role of human beings in the social sphere, and in relation to nature, from a philosophical and anthropological standpoint.

Spurred by his interest in questions of identity and in the power dynamics at work within societies and family structures, the artist places his alienated human/humanoid figures – who are often isolated and diaphanous, with vague features – in unsettling domestic interiors or contexts dominated by nature. Naked, deformed and seemingly vulnerable, the androgynous subjects presented to our gaze are the hub of a reflection on how we perceive self and body, challenging the norms and excesses of voyeurism and narcissism.