Tempest
“Tempest”, Storm, 2012
A Project by
the artists Ernst Kraft and Charo Carrera, on display in the gallery El Estudio de Ignacio del Rio, Malaga,
Spain
Synopsis of the project: After the heavy storm and
rain at the beginning of October the artists saw on the beach of Malaga, an uprooted tree along the waterfront.. . The storm has given it
to the sea, and the sea just left it abandoned on the beach, that’s how things
go… no sign where it came from… yet on the surface there were multiple lines,
like drawings or cryptic writings, engraved in its red-brown skin.. Tracking the lines of these strange natural
scriptures, all along the full length of the tree, made a fascinating and
tragic portrait of life and death.
During four days the artists visited daily this sad
dying creature, on the fifth day, the sky has darkened again, a deep mist covered
all Malaga and its beaches, and they found the tree cut into pieces, prepared
to be incinerated…
Several techniques were used to portrait this majestic
being and its weary end: such as
photography, painting, monotype and video..
like an “hommage” to an unknown sailor…