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Artists are the spokespeople of our times and can play a crucial role in provoking conversations and challenging the status quo. Oliver Westerbarkey communicates within his work that nature can exist without humankind, and it is in fact humans who cannot exist without a relation to their surroundings. The preservation of the plant parts stand in contrast to the fact that nature indeed never really stands still. The work is neither a true representation of nature nor even a complete falsification. Westerbarkey's works thus both preserve and imitate nature at the same time. They highlight all these little objects in nature we easily overlook, and thus let us meditate on the ecological system at large.

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Exhibited Works

Gegend I, 2019
Soil, Stones, Sticks, Leaves, Various Other Parts of Plants, Acrylic Dispersion, Acrylic Paint, Wooden Panels
110 x 150 cm | 43 1/3 x 59 in

Entropia Park/ Avenue Ext, 2015/ 2016
Soil, Stones, Sticks, Leaves, Various other Parts of Plants, Acrylic Dispersion, Acrylic Paint, Wooden Panels
485 x 240 x 110 cm | 191 x 94 1/2 x 43 1/3 in

Entropia Park/ Beet Ext, 2016/2018
Soil, Stones, Sticks, Leaves, Various other Parts of Plants, Acrylic Dispersion, Acrylic Paint, Wooden Panels
486 x 240 x 8 cm | 191 1/3 x 94 1/2 x 35 1/4 in

Ufer II, 2019
Soil, Stones, Sticks, Leaves, Various Other Parts of Plants, Acrylic Dispersion, Acrylic Paint, Wooden Panels
68 x 86 x 7 cm | 27 2/3 x 33 3/4 x 2 3/4 in

Entropia Park / Spalier, 2017/2018
Soil, Stones, Sticks, Leaves, Various Other Parts of Plants, Acrylic Dispersion, Acrylic Paint, Wooden Panels
100 x 140 x 6 cm | 39 1/3 x 55 x 2 1/3 in