Nature Winds

Nature Winds

Media: Acrylic on panel with light bulbs, shutters and crank
Dimensions: 190 x 139 x 33 cm (H x W x D)

In “Nature Winds – a collection of early 20th-century advertisement signs by the perfume company in Key West, Florida” Childree incorporates the tradition of collecting broken, forgotten images, and interprets them in a new way. With that, Childree falls in the tradition of post-war art movements of the twentieth century, such as the French art movement New Realism. Having started in the 1960s, the movement was guided by the works of Marcel Duchamp as well as other artists of Dadaism. Like Childree, Nouveau Realists liked to blur the lines between painting and object art.
Playing with trivial objects, they posed the question of a new definition of “art” and “artwork”. The New Realists created “reliefs” from meals, waste and damaged pieces of furniture. They also used underwear, worn and barely legible posters that they had torn off the street. The aim of the New Realists was to integrate the banal reality of everyday life into art using previously unused techniques and materials. Like Childree, their aim was to secure a past everyday life and reinterpret it in a new way to create an aesthetically pleasing work.
The palette of the exhibited work in the exhibition “Nature Winds – a collection of early 20th-century advertisement signs by the perfume company in Key West, Florida,” recalls 20th-century advertisement billboards, though now rather than conveying language or pictures of wares, the colours depict a barely legible tangle of plants, in various stages of their life cycle. Childree’s paint contains marble dust to achieve a matte chalky texture, one that mimics the look of old billboards. He painted plants growing in his backyard studio – such as palm trees and Florida grasses. In bringing together the old palette of billboards with the colours of his garden, Childree emphasises the influence that location has on the respective impact of advertisement.

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