Invasive Exotic

Marco Pando

2025 | Painting, oil on canvas, 120cm × 114.5cm, Objcts, glass, metal, and lead, Size variable, 2022-ongoing project | 23.02.2025 – 18.04.2025

How to Erase Language with Invasive Plants after the Bauhaus, Glass, metal, and lead, Size variable, 2022-ongoing project
Echinopsis Pachanoi (San Pedro), Oil on canvas, 120cm × 114.5cm, 2023

How to Erase Language with Invasive Plants after the Bauhaus
The members of the Bauhaus spread their ideas across the world to radiate new ways of life. Colonizers took advantage of the construction of new cities to change the lives of the colonized by mostly erasing traditional lifestyles. The new constructions behaved like invasive plants. An invasive plant has the ability to thrive and spread aggressively outside its native range. A naturally aggressive plant may be specially invasive when it is introduced to a new habitat.
Glass is being used to construct an open futuristic city, which plays with the idea of toxic and savage architecture. It’s a translation of the structure of the invasive plants into the building style of the Bauhaus. The shapes

and compositions of the plants turn into architectonic constructions that create an invasive architecture that expands and spreads.


Echinopsis Pachanoi (San Pedro)
Echinopsis Pachanoi
is one painting out of an ongoing series of paintings which has evolved from the earlier work, How to erase language with invasive plants after the bauhaus (2017).
Humans and man-made things adapt to and change their environment like invasive plants and—reminiscent of old paintings of the colonial exotic flora—The imagination what this will look like as the landscape of the future. The idea of the painting as a panorama of a fictional advertisement for a utopian resort, fantastic amusement park or a new city plan.

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With the kind support of Rosspartner Werbetechnik, Ritter Sport, GEISTUNDGELD e.V., SV SparkassenVersicherung, Wüstenrot Stiftung and Kulturamt Stuttgart