Dot Fiftyone Gallery presents "Wild Altar", Magnus Sodamin’s first solo show with the gallery.
As we push further into the frontiers of our natural world, human development continues to encroach upon the critical habitats of wildlife, restricting movement between isolated populations of species and disrupting the natural life cycles of ecosystems. Our growing presence puts their survival at greater risk.
In his exhibition "Wild Altar," Magnus Sodamin builds monuments to the Spoonbill, Heron, Anhinga. The artist's tufted tapestry sculptures become totems of the wilderness, deifying the bird, fetishizing its avian characteristics, and canonizing its habitat as holy land. These suspended sculptures hang in between paintings referential of byzantine churches or stained-glass windows - arch-shaped works which transmit a sense of religious reverence for the outdoors. To Sodamin, an avid outdoorsman, nature plays a prominent role in his life and studio practice. "Nature is my church. Anywhere in the world, and whenever I...enter, I have respect for the wild places and know that they are not my space."
Born in Manhattan, New York, Magnus Sodamin is a long-time Miami resident. Sodamin received his BFA in painting with a minor in art history from the New World School of the Arts, Miami, in 2012. He spent a year developing his painting practice at the Nansenskolen (Nansen Academy) in Lillehammer, Norway, a humanitarian institute that focuses on cross-cultural exchange.
Entrada actualizada el el 30 sep de 2021
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