Mikado Flowers
Malte Martin
Parque Felipe VI – Concéntrico 10
Approach Felipe VI Park and watch flowers bloom in spring.
Enter this open sculpture, take refuge as in a hut, see the children slalom between the stems of the giant mikado. Find a small place to sit in the grass in the shade of a flower petal…
Mikado Flowers is a hybrid object mobilizing various imaginaries between mikado, teepee and a floral universe. A landscape sculpture.
When I discovered Felipe VI Park, I thought ‘what a great idea to turn two stations into a landscape’. Instead of a technostructure, an air to walk, to climb higher and to change point of view on the city. I just lacked some vegetation, branches, foliage, bushes in which I loved to lose myself as children…
Beyond her work of staging words in urban space, Malte Martin has been working in recent years on the notion of landscape-sculpture or sculpture-place. Transforming a given space – inside or outside – into a sensitive terrain where we are no longer just spectators, but the explorers of a plastic, graphic, even sound experience.
“Signs, people, sounds, smells. My city is a world. Chaos to explore, to understand, where to meet. To reinvent the agora.”
Malte Martin
Malte Martin is a graphic designer and visual artist, born in Berlin, living and working in Paris. He develops his practice at the graphic and spatial design studio Ecouter-Pour-Poir.net, which explores all areas of contemporary creation: theatre, dance, music and design issues in urban space.
His influences are manifold. He began his career with a course – in the tradition of the “Bauhaus” – at the Kunstakademie in Stuttgart, before entering the “Beaux-Arts” in Paris and joining the Grapus studio.
At the same time, with Agrafmobile.net, he creates an itinerant visual theatre to invert urban space and everyday territories. It is also a space for experimentation between visual and sound creation, between gestures and signs. A laboratory that also feeds responses formulated within the framework of commissions.
He was a member of the scientific council of the Ministry of Culture for “Research at the School of Art and Design” and also a member of the scientific council of “Le Signe, National Centre for Graphic Design”.
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