The PIERIDAE Project 

ART PROJECT :

These artworks are part of a digital project and most of them exist only as a virtual conception. Their proposed dimensions can be adapted (to a reasonable extent) to the wishes of the collector or to an architectural concept. For the realisation of the artwork please count min. 6 weeks.

FLYING COLOURS                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Earth- and stonecolours have always been an important feature in Vles’ artwork. Even where she uses bright reds or yellows, they still grow out of dirty whites, brownish greys and muddy blacks. In spite of a stern geometric design, emphasis lays on the «brut», many-layered texture. No surface is ever clean, smooth or polished, and primary colours are anathema to the artist. Some of her work looks as if it had been standing outside for some time to absorb its natural environment - and in some cases, it actually did.

Equally, wings are a predominant Vlessian element and some works, like «Wings» or «Cerveaulant», have indeed been exhibited flying from the ceiling, in spite of their oppressive weight. Some smaller pieces of the recent «modules» series just seem to have landed on the wall for a short rest, ready to take off again on the slightest breeze.

So it was only a matter of time for these components to merge into the Pieridae, the stonecoloured butterflies that reconcile the airy with the earthly. Of course it is not the artist’s intention to portray butterflies, and there is nothing small, pretty, fluttering, even less «natural» about these paintings. As always in the Vlessian arteverse, it is a matter of association and atmosphere – pieridae being the source, not the objective.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         David Lanstedt «Flying Colours» 2023 (extract)

P191  mixed media / collage / acrylic on plywood   proposed dimensions  Triptych   W250 x H150 x D6cm

L145 (pieridae)   mixed media / collage / acrylic on plywood   dimensions  Triptych    W250 x 150 x D6cm Triptych     ARTWORK REALIZED

P200 (pieridae)  mixed media / collage / acrylic on plywood   proposed dimensions  Triptych   W250 x H150 x D6cm

L144 (pieridae)   mixed media / collage / acrylic on plywood   dimensions  Triptych    W250 x 150 x D6cm / SOLD

L146 (pieridae)   mixed media / collage / acrylic on plywood   dimensions  Triptych    W250 x 150 x D6cm   SOLD

P199 (pieridae)   mixed media / collage / acrylic on plywood   W160 x 240 x D6cm   SOLD

P196 (pieridae)   mixed media / collage / acrylic on plywood   proposed dimensions   W136 x 200 x D6cm 

P201 (pieridae)   mixed media / collage / acrylic on plywood   proposed dimensions   W136 x 200 x D6cm

P204 (pieridae)   mixed media / collage / acrylic on plywood   proposed dimensions   W136 x 200 x D6cm            

P210 (pieridae)   mixed media / collage / acrylic on plywood   proposed dimensions   W136 x 200 x D6cm

P205 (pieridae)   mixed media / collage / acrylic on plywood   proposed dimensions   W136 x 200 x D6cm

P151 (pieridae)   mixed media / collage / acrylic on plywood   proposed dimensions   W136 x 160 x D6cm 

P221 (pieridae)   mixed media / collage / acrylic on plywood   proposed dimensions   W136 x 190 x D6cm

P197 (pieridae)   mixed media / collage / acrylic on plywood   proposed dimensions   W136 x 190 x D6cm

P154 (pieridae)   mixed media / collage / acrylic on plywood   proposed dimensions   W136 x 160 x D6cm

P225 (pieridae)   mixed media / collage / acrylic on plywood   proposed dimensions   W150 x 150 x D6cm