Under the theme of ?Conversations With Nature,? this year, six artists from five continents have traveled to Reims and created works of art based on their personal impressions of the landscape they encountered there
Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira is creating a scuptural installation for Ruinart, preferred champagne house of every self-respecting next gen oligarch, at Frieze London this year. Cleo Scott investigates
Henrique Oliveira?s forms spring out of the ground like inverted roots. A Brazilian-born painter and sculptor who works between his São Paolo and London studios, his large-scale sculptural installations are known as ?tapumes?, or ?fencing? in Portuguese, which reference the wooden construction fences seen throughout São Paolo.
Oliveira is known for his works exploring the tension between nature and urban life Oliveira uses lengths of stapled wooden tubing to create organic forms, which are then covered in layers of thinly applied wood, which he selects for their weathered and knotted surfaces. This results in bark-like forms that are at once natural and supernatural.

Oliveira?s project for ?Conversations with Nature?, part of the Carte Blanche 2024 artists? initiative from chi-chi Champagne house Ruinart, draws inspiration from the underground world of the Champagne region.
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