Visual Art | Natural Science
Metamorphosis
The Process Is the Goal
My process-oriented methods turn science into art.
In the diptych Metamorphose I, Werden & Vergehen (2024), the drawing process mutates from a free idea to an analytical concept. Form undergoes
a first deconstruction.
A paper sheet splinters into individually drawn elements. Multiple, unexpected readings emerge: to the left, from the right.
Upwards, from below. Diagonally. Continuously or erratically.
Diptych „Metamorphose I, Werden & Vergehen“
2024,
graphite, coloured Pencil on paper, 80 x 120 cm
Metamorphose I | Werden
2024
Stop Motion Animation, 00:50 min
Metamorphose I | Vergehen
2024
Stop Motion Animation, 00:50 min
Beginning without clear goals, the butterflies transformed
from paper drawings to three-
dimensional collages and, via a video animation,
ultimately became a fabric sculpture.
The series #bewareofbutterflies was at the core of Denise Schellmann’s work from 2020 to 2024. The butterflies must be understood as a synthesis
of drawn structures and motifs from earlier creative phases: as consummated metamorphoses that create a colourful newness. No two butterflies
are the same. And in each, the artist’s personality matures one step further. Contradictions remain: fragility and strength, tenderness and wildness,
statics and dynamics. Always the both, and the and.
Butterflycollection III
2020
graphite, coloured pencil on paper, pins, Insekt showcase
40 x 50 cm
#bewareofbutterflies XXVI
2024
graphite, coloured pencil on paper,
26 x 42 cm
37 Schmetterlinge - ein dynamisches Wechselspiel
2021
Stop Motion short film 1:51 min
Sewingprocess, prototypes, cutting pattern, butterflies, soft sculptures, 2021
3x7 Butterflies | 21 softsculptures
2021
textile, filling materials, thread, 7-18 cm (H)
The installation 3 x 7 Butterflies is the result of a meticulously playful, transformative method. Starting from what began as two-dimensional
drawings, a metamorphosis initially via the hand-sewing of individual patterns gives way to organic-amorphous fabric sculptures and finally a video
animation.
