After an academic degree in graphic arts,
and after a long and wandering artistic odyssee, Al Balis evolved
into a very individual, colourfull and baroque discipline of
assembly-sculpture.
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| He assembles wasted implements / utensils
of our consumer society, really everyday objects, into impressive and
often confronting "poems" that leed us into another reality.
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A broken statue of a forgotten saint,
dumped components of retired machinery, once called
"high-tec", toys that can't make children play anymore, all
that lumber of our superficial mass culture, finds a second life, a new
significance in his work.
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| But they very badly need the help from
newly created organs, insectlike creatures of all kind and strange
forms, to maintain that fragile balance between surrealistic dream and
the confronting reality.
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| One could call this project a never ending
story of dreaming about a new future, flavoured with symbolism, irony. But wether you like it or not, Al Balis' creations really shake you around. |
