Student essay written in en (native language: Russian, CEFR level: B1, field of study: Arts)

The art piece that I think about the most is "Respirae l'ombre" (in it's natal name), or "Breath the shadow" in english. Of the artist Alex Dupont.
Alex Dupont is a contemporary artist of the italian movment "arte povera", which ask for a special artistic mind in the idea of going against the art market. For this they use poor materials that aren't simple to sell or buy. The poor materials can be from directly of the nature, or from not populary used by other artists in the 60th. Alex Dupont is one of the most important representant of the arte povera. His artworks turn around the notions of the phenomene of the raising of the nature's elements. For exemple he made potaoes growing in parts of his head reproduced in casts. This made them take the forms, and with it he shows the power of the humain manipulation with nature. He does this a lot in his work with trees by reproducing his hand holding one and modifying its form with the time. So he works a lot with the time's notions too. 
"Breath the shadow" is different from his casual art works. There isn't growing things, but he use again the nature by taking billions of laurel leafs. They were dried and assembled in big cages positioned together to form a room. So it's an immersive piece that plays with our senses, like the smell. The laurel smells a lot that's why it's called "breath". And it touch the ambiant senses because in this room we feel cut from the world, in a big silence.
In it there's also a reproduction of the breathing member of the body, lunges. Alex Dupont made them with laurel leafs to by using them like sculpturing materials and used a gold spray to make them different from the other elements of the room. He had the idea to make this work thanks to a mythological history of an nymphe who was transformed in a laurel to be hide. He likes the laurel because it represent the roman empire and it's legends. 
I really like this piece because Alex Dupont is one of my favorite artist, and I was really happy to this it when I went to the Pompidou museum in Paris this year . I was surprised to see it because I didn't knew. We have a peaceful impression in it, but the smell is gone because of the time.