Mystic Garden

The German-Icelandic artist duo Veronika Sedlmair and Brynjar Sigurðarson present a series of new works that materialise an uncanny revival of romantic ideas.

As if escaped from a German Romanticism painting, where the artist’s role was mediating between the creative and the divine, a series of mushroom shaped objects are installed on a platform at Galerie kreo in Paris. Their glossy surfaces and fleeting colours make for a ghostly scene inside the exhibition space. To constitute ‘Mystic Garden’, the duo Sedlmair and Sigurðarson worked with a skilled glass blowers community to reach the limit that large scale blown glass can take and that can be handled by a persons lungs within the little time one has to (re)work the hot material. Having similar sizes to our human upper bodies their light emitting volumes could be interpreted as materialisations of souls, or characters even. Reminiscent of the Romantic movement and their philosophy which referred to the German words ‘Körper’ and ‘Leib’; describing the body you have, and the body you are as complimentary entities. These glass objects also look alike but vary in unique colours and each radiates their own aura into space. They toy with our imagination in manifesting household items as beings.