Stellar Cave II
Mixed-media installation
In pre-historic times, humans painted images of bulls and deer on the walls of caves – these were some of the very first artworks humans created. Some of those paintings showed a special pattern in the way the animals were positioned, and they were thought to match the same patterns or shapes of constellations in the sky. French artist Julien Salaud was inspired by the pre-historic cave paintings in the Lascaux Caves in France when he created Stellar Cave II.
Constellations are a group of stars that make an imaginary shape in the night sky, like the Taurus (stars forming the shape of a bull) or the Great Bear (stars forming the shape of a bear). In Stellar Cave II, Julien Salaud created similar animal patterns in the sky of the gallery with simple materials of wood, screws and threads. The individual screws represent the stars in the sky, with thread wrapped around them to reveal shapes of animals.
(extracted from SAM Press Release)
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