Massimo Dalla Pola, A POISON TREE

Garden

A wisteria, an oleander, a colchicum, a peony. Poisonous plants, but few people know this. Coloured flowers that conceal their danger behind their harmless appearance. Printing on PVC exaggerates these characteristics, giving the drawings, with their accentuated two-dimensionality and lack of depth, an icy, unrealistic appearance. The plastic support is transformed into the essence of their dangerousness, just as harmful as their consistency. The Latin name recalls that of medieval herbals: a caption that is anything but explanatory.

Massimo Dalla Pola was born in 1971. He lives and works in Milan.