Elsa Salonen

Everything Vanishes, Except Life Itself

decoloured roses and delphiniums, their distilled colour pigments, acrylic glass, glass, metal
2014, 60x100x100 cm

The artist extracted colours from red roses and blue delphiniums, leaving the plants pale and colourless. Using only the distilled colours, she painted a splash of colour on a table. The white flower bouquet is shown in a glass vessel next to the painting.

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Exhibition views: Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, 2014 / Photographer: Jere Salonen and Jochen Hempel Gallery, Leipzig, 2021 / Photographer: Björn Siebert

Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die.

Giordano Bruno, The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast, 1584
2021
2021