THE WORK OF POLISH ARTIST NESPOON IS SOMEWHERE IN THE CROSSFIELD BETWEEN STREET ART, POTTERY, PAINTING AND SCULPTURE.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #23 | APR 2020 Polish artist NeSpoon creates work that are somewhere between street art, pottery, painting and sculpture. It’s important to NeSpoon to make positive art and to deal with positive emotions. Sometimes, she also comments on social and political issues that she considers important, through her work.
Most of her work consist of patterns of traditional laces, made in clay or painted on the walls. Why laces? Because in laces, NeSpoon recognizes a universal aesthetic code, which is deeply embedded in every culture. In every lace we find symmetry, some kind of order and harmony, which is what we all instinctively seek for, she explains. Why street art? Because it gives her freedom.
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According to NeSpoon, she’s equipped with her creative drive from nature. She’s been painting and drawing since she was a child, with the wish of being a real artist at the age of 5, while other girls were dreaming of being princesses, singers or fairies. Art, to NeSpoon, is the one and only way of living, as simple as breathing.
NeSpoon easily gets bored, which causes her to change techniques randomly. She’s always up for learning something new and has lately dedicated herself to screen printing. However, her basic and preferred medias are ceramics and all types of paint. To NeSpoon, clay and oil paint are very natural substances, closely related to the elements of the earth. She adores the physical contact with her materials, getting dirty. |
NeSpoon considers that her work is both pre-thought and also emerge on its own. When she works with lace patterns, it’s an instinctive, intuitive process. Images appears in her mind in finished forms. In her other projects, specially those she shows in galleries, all possible outcome is thought through to the detail.
To NeSpoon the key elements in creating a good composition are simplicity and harmony. She values the Chinese contemporary artist and activist Ai WeiWei (b. 1957), because he makes great art and cares greatly, she states. To sum up our correspondence, she adds as following: What you think, you get. Dreams come true. Be careful of your thoughts. This article about NeSpoon takes part of ARTICULATE #23. Read, download or order your print version of the full publication below
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