Do you have a dream that lingers in your mind? Those flamboyant scenarios blooming in your memories are like blossoms embracing the spring. You stretch your arms and open your hands in the air. Perceived was the brilliant glow that penetrates the gaps of your fingers.
Gentennaar’s paperwork is a vehicle for his dreams having survived the relentless reality of the world. When he was little, his pursuit of art was rejected by the simple word “unacceptable”. He did not give in. Keeping his head on, he experimented with different ways of making art. Eventually, he found his way.
Inspired by nature, curly shapes float in the air like leaves lying in winds of lullabies. Though the moister evaporates in time and life seems to be dying away, the course, somehow, enables a transformation that comes to be unimaginable to the secular world. From reality to the celestial, Gentennaar captures the moment of the transformation by presenting floating paper sculptures. As if raising the dead from the grave, he awakens what is buried in the bleak world, reveals dreams with a gentle touch of the real world.
Gentenaar conceals dreams in amorphous shapes and ethereal textures. For him, dreams are always from afar, perceivable but not touchable, imaginable but not definable.
Therefore, he always places them in grand spaces, like churches and hotels, contrasting the awe-inspiring background. His paper sculptures resemble angles on earth that guard the land and comfort those who are hurt.
