Jonk is the Digital & Photography Artist Spotlight winning artist for the month of November 2018. He is a French photographer who travels the world looking for abandoned places. He has visited more than one thousand places in forty countries on four continents. His current project is titled Naturalia. This series questions the place of Man on planet Earth and his relationship with Nature. It focuses on nature retaking what used to be hers, reintegrating through broken windows, cracks on the walls, spaces built by Man and then neglected, sometimes guzzling them up entirely.

Jonk’s Solo Art Exhibition will be featured on the website for the month of November 2018. The gallery will promote Jonk and his work on the Fusion Art website, in Fusion Art’s Artsy.net Gallery, individual online press releases to hundreds of outlets, email blasts to over 2500 collectors, galleries, buyers and art professionals, in online event calendars, art news websites and through the gallery’s extensive social media outlets.  Fusion Art’s objective is to promote the Artist Spotlight winning artists, worldwide, to art professionals, gallerists, collectors and buyers.

Please read Jonk’s Artist Statement as he describes his inspiration and process in his own words. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see his exhibition.

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Jonk’s Artist Statement

I travel the world looking for abandoned places. Today, I visited more than one thousand places in forty countries on four continents. With time, my interest concentrated on what appeared to me to be the strongest: Nature taking back. It is poetic, even magic, to see this Nature retaking what used to be hers, reintegrating through broken windows, cracks on the walls, spaces built by Man and then neglected, until sometimes guzzling them up entirely.

In March 2018, I released the book “Naturalia” on the topic and am currently working on volume 2. In June 2018, I quit my job to fully dedicate myself to this project.

Naturalia

This series questions the place of Man on planet Earth and his relationship with Nature. Man builds for his own peculiar reasons. Man abandons for other peculiar reasons. Nature does not care about those reasons. But one thing is for sure, She is disturbed in her evolution. When Man leaves, She comes back and takes back everything.

Far from being negative or pessimistic, and at a time where Man’s domination on Nature has never been this extreme, she aims to wake consciousness. In her inexorable progression, She starts infiltrating the insides of a Montenegrin castle. Then, She grows in a Cuban theater before filling up all the space of an Italian Church. She guzzles the cross of a Belgian monastery or given more time, imprisons a Taiwanese mansion with her strong roots.

The next step? Collapse and burial. What will then be left of what Man has built? Nothing. A souvenir. A shot that a curious adventurer would have taken there some years before.

When Nature and Time ally against Man, what will be left of our civilization?

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