Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) was a German naturalist and philosopher who popularized the work of Charles Darwin, creating new terms such as “ecology.”

He is considered one of the great illustrators of the natural world of the 19th century.

Kunstformen der Natur (“Artistic Forms of Nature” (1904)) is his book of 100 lithographs depicting various types of living organisms, many of which were first described by Haeckel himself.

The book places special focus on its contributions to the study of marine invertebrates, such as jellyfish and sponges.

Kunstformen der Natur influenced the art, architecture and design of the early 20th century, linking science and art.

Under the same title, Gaspar Libedinsky presents his ‘pictorial work’.

This series of 10 plates takes the domestic brush as a construction module.

A progression of precise physical operations – compression, tension, rotation – generate the pictorial work.

Each brush is a brushstroke.

The styling of its colorful synthetic bristles expresses a diversity of plastic intentions.

These pictorial compositions capture an explosive universe of emotions that refer to the wildest nature: that which has yet to be discovered.

Author: Gaspar Libedinsky

Gaspar Libedinsky Studio 2018: Robert Peyote Paredes, Andrea Napolitano, Luli Capitanich, Flor Hamudis, Julián Cúneo, Hernán Gimenez, Luisina Galarza, Juan Camilo Kleinerman, Carolina Galvagni, Flavia Canelo, Eliana Ausa, Carolina Meligrana, Martín Truffat, Roger Marín, Roxana Scorcelli, Iván Savorgnan, Nacho Fabio, Victoria Brunetta.