Event as part of the Art:walk Festival
With ARDIF and Pixelpancho,Altered Nature unites two concise positions of urban art. Between organic and constructed forms, they create visual worlds in which nature appears as a hybrid, moulded and constantly changing state. The exhibition can be seen in the Pretty Portal Gallery.
ARDIF and Pixelpancho deal with a nature that does not appear as an untouched idyll, but as a dynamic, reshaped system - characterised by growth, intervention, transformation and time. Both artists come from the street and urban art scene, in which organic structures, technological visual languages and urban influences intertwine in a special way. In their works, nature is not depicted but rethought: as something that is built and grown at the same time. ARDIF develops biomechanical visual worlds in which plants, machines and abstract structures merge into one another. Pixelpancho creates complex scenarios between architecture, mechanics and vegetal forms that bear traces of use, repair and memory. The works do not depict classic landscapes, but rather visualise processes - erosion and compression, fragmentation and superimposition, decay and regeneration. The title Altered Nature remains deliberately open: "Altered" describes both physical change and a shift in perception. Nature appears filtered through technology, urban spaces and artistic imagination. (Source: Art:walk Festival)
