David Vimar and Forest Dialogues

Fuenlabrada,

On August 7, 1997, the magazine Nature He published a study that meant the launch to the (scientific) fame of the young Suzanne Simard and the rise in research on mycorrhiza networks, which would be baptized as Wood Wide Web: This Canadian researcher of Forest Ecology, linked to the University of British Columbia, discovered that forest trees are connected by a network of such mycorrhizae, a symbiotic association between fungi and plant roots. The hyphae or filaments of the fungi mobilize and transport the mineral nutrients of the soil to the roots of the plants, while the fungus receives in return photosyntized carbohydrates. In this way, through the mycorrhish plots, the trees are integrated into an underground tissue that contributes to the subsistence of the forest ecosystem: in a single forest, a single tree can be linked to hundreds of specimens of its species to share nitrogen, water, carbon and phosphorus.

Interested in communication between these living beings, Madrid artist David Vimar has created a series, The forestin which he wanted to provide symbolism with the communication, information collection, memory and relationship collection between plants. Far from exploring them as inanimate organisms, as they are usually considered, he sought to address them as structures endowed with various social skills, one of the main ones being their capacity for rapport with the environment and information exchange. The sculptural pieces that integrate this set are provided with that organic matter, of trunks and bark of living and dead trees that permeate all its properties under the effect of the form, while the choice of monochor in the paintings acts as a focus of attention on the material qualities of the surfaces, in the same way natural.

We were promoted, ultimately, to investigate our communicative power within a society, from creations that talk to each other as a symbolic unity of the interconnection power of our forests.

David Vimar. Roots of a dialogue. Ceart Fuenlabrada

Part of that project is part of the new Vimar sample in the Ceart -green room of the Fuenlabrada CEART, called “Roots of a dialogue” and formed by pieces raised as metaphorical units of that power of interrelation of the forests, which goes beyond the subsoil and that is transferred to the air, because the stomata of the leaves can also release chemical compounds in case of fires, pests, storms, storms and other damage.

They await us in the Art Center Tomás and brave human sculptures in pine wood that link us to primitive nature and offer carving brands alluding to our wounds or paintings made with sailing smoke on linen. They suggest analogies between the systems that allow trees to function cooperatively and the characteristic networks of the human being, based on organic materials and their properties.