Marcus Maria Jung
Santa Monica, CA
My work explores the ancient and sacred relationship between the human spirit and the natural world
Message"The sculptural work of Marcus Maria Jung embodies the ancient and sacred relationship between the human spirit and the natural world. Today, preserving the quality of the natural world has taken on an urgency of monumental proportion and forms a crucible for the human condition. Jung’s work explores issues of environmental & social justice. Frequent themes include sacred geography & ecology, human rights and earth based ritual, indigenous wisdom traditions, and the role of ancient archetypes in the formation of human identity. Marcus Maria Jung’s sculpture and installations bridge the tradition of Land Art from the 1960-70’s, known in the works of Andy Goldsworthy, David Nash and Richard Long, with the spiritual consciousness of the 21st century. At the forefront of an emerging art movement defined by some as the Eco-Arts movement and by others Neo-Spiritualism, Marcus Maria Jung is part of a new wave of artists and creatives dedicated to healing the planet through artistic practices.” -Gianna Carotenuto, Ph.D., Professor of Art History
Statement
As an artist I work with sculpture, photography, site-specific installations and ritual to explore the ancient and sacred relationship between the human spirit and the natural world. An important element and often the initial stage in my creative process are conversations with trees, animals, plants and earth elements during excursions in nature. I use found and gathered materials from these excursions which inspire and initiate a meditative and sensual creative process. Revealing and honing these found materials with a craft based physicality and a devotion to nature has become an embodied artistic and spiritual practice. In this practice I meld art and design, craft and technique, aesthetics and gesture and use it as a structure and canvas from which I explore the border between form and the formless. Collaborating with other artists and teaching has become another strong orientation in my work, as well as working in local environments and communities to foster and encourage communal and collective artwork as a means to reconnect humans with nature. Honoring, restoring and protecting planet earth and our natural environment has become a central theme in my work. Having experienced and worked with catastrophe, destruction and loss, and the resulting painful loss of trees and the extinction of species in nature on a massive scale has given my work greater depth and deeper understanding. In sharing my art I desire to invoke a feeling of intimacy and a sense of belonging to nature.
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