Je viens de tomber sur votre site en suivant quelques mots clés qui m’ont mené vers un article sur notre ami Pierre Bastien. Voici donc un premier message, une prise de contact. Nous sommes une association basée à Nantes et portons depuis plusieurs années des projets qui mélangent musique, nouvelle lutherie et bricolage/récupération/DIY et arts numériques.

Nous avons notamment fabriqué Bobbyland, un orchestre automatisé et commandé par ordinateur à partir de vieux instruments cassés, des moteurs et tout un tas de ferrailles récupérées à droite à gauche.

Nos projets ont également des volets pédagogiques, nous montons des ateliers de construction d’instruments insolites par exemple.

Enfin nous avons également des projets destinés au concert. Je pense notamment à Immensity of the Territory, une guitare motorisée et commandée à distance qui joue sur fond d’images des grands espaces américains et de phonographies (enregistrements des sons de la nature américaine).

De manière générale tous nos projets sont décris en ligne sur notre site : http://www.studioenhaut.net vous y trouverez des dossiers ainsi que des vidéos qui donnent à voir et comprendre un peu tout ça.

Ce serait un plaisir d’échanger avec vous, nous cherchons évidemment à développer et faire parler de nos projets.

Bien à vous,
a.

Je vous invite à découvrir mon travail de sculpture à base de matériaux de récupération.

Graphiste, +Brauer vit à Paris. Il réalise depuis plus de 20 ans de nombreuses pochettes de disques pour des artistes français et internationaux et s’exprime parallèlement comme plasticien à travers la peinture et la sculpture.

Il expose régulièrement à Paris et en Europe.

+Brauer sélectionne avec attention des pièces vintage au passé industriel, marquées par le temps et le travail des hommes qui lui ont forgé une patine. Admiratif de la beauté, parfois cachée, de ces pièces abandonnées, il modifie leur apparence, les sculpte, en y associant la lumière avant de les assembler pour créer une œuvre unique et poétique. Ce n’est pas l’aspect technologique, mais la forme originelle, brute, quasi primitive du robot qu’il recherche.

La beauté des matériaux et les vénérables patines se révèlent au jour, tandis que, la nuit venue, d’étranges lumières nous accompagnent. Dès le début de la conception, la mise en lumière fait partie intégrante de l’œuvre et chaque robot est conçu de façon à exister différemment, selon qu’il soit allumé ou éteint.

Issus des fonds d’ateliers et des garages, ils renaissent en des œuvres uniques posant sur nous leur présence bienveillante, leur personnalité imposante, leur étonnante humanité.

Comme une résistance poétique à la surconsommation.

Viva la roboluciòn !

A votre disposition pour tout renseignement complémentaire.

Cordialement

Voici d’autre part une nouvelle description :

Il s’agit de peintures numériques imprimées à la demande sur un papier photo. L’impression est ensuite contrecollée sur un panneau de fibres de bois MDF qui trouve aisément sa place en décoration intérieur, un film de protection est appliqué sur l’image.
Il s’agit de peintures numériques imprimées à la demande sur un papier photo. L’impression est ensuite contrecollée sur un panneau de fibres de bois MDF qui trouve aisément sa place en décoration intérieur, un film de protection est appliqué sur l’image.

Merci pour votre blog et bonne continuation.
Cordialement,
Didier ARGENTERO

Why LEGO?
LEGO is my favorite toy when I was small. It is traditionally thought that LEGO should be combined together in order to construct a sculpture or a model. However, I want to make something different this time. I would not combine the LEGO together and also I would like to break them in to smaller pieces. I want use them to present the elements of earth and human. I would not combine them, I would just put them in the different parts in the art work.
There will be a human model. It will be divided into 5 parts representing 5 elements of earth and human. The black LEGO will represent the destroyed part of earth and the health of human. The size of the art work is around 2 meters high.

Where
I want to show the art work in some crowed area, e.g. Time square, Festival Walk, Sogo, Hong Kong Exhibition Centre. As my message is a global issue, everyone has his own responsibility to save the earth. I want this message being widespread.

After winning the TED Prize which is awarded annually to ‘One Wish to Change the World’ in 2011, JR started the “Inside Out Project”. This project is an ongoing global multimedia, participatory art project which transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. In the following paragraphs, this unique “Inside Out Project” will be discussed and the concepts behind it will be analyzed.

The impressive 16 large-scale black and white portraits on the roof of IFC footbridges which is in Central district of Hong Kong is only one of the 4467 projects in the world. This project is powerful and still spreading because people can take part in the artistic process during the pasting phase. This large-scaled involvement of the whole community in making art is rarely seen before. Starting from taking pictures, printing it out to pasting it in public spaces, even ordinary people can create their own art work which can be seen by everyone in the world.

Besides getting the communities involved, people express what they stand for or care and tell their personal stories through taking pictures of themselves. A self-portrait is actually the easiest and direct way to do so. Once JR said “I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we’ll turn the world inside out.” This idea is common in all JR’s projects. For example, in Women Are Heroes, women who live in Brazil were taken pictures and their portraits were pasted in many places there. JR wanted to highlight the dignity of women, their real daily lives and experiences, and the reality which is different from the one shown in the media. “Inside Out Project” is the same, people’s real expression and lives are shown through these black and white images.

For example, in Ciudad Juarez of Mexico, 1180 portraits were pasted to show the underrepresented faces of a city known for crime. In Georgetown of Guyana, 601 portraits show the Guyanese children who have witnessed acts of violent acts against their families and themselves. In Caracas of Venezuela, 220 portraits show mothers who have lost a child because of violence. These things are always neglected in social or media reports. However, people from all around the world can see these stories because of “Inside Out Project” now.

In conclusion, “Inside Out Project” or other projects created by JR are actually very different from other street arts or graffiti. These portraits of people are so real and each of the portraits is unique and tells story which the media may not show. JR has done an incredible job, he has not only changed the location of showing art work from gallery to public spaces. More importantly, he let ordinary people get involved in the creating process. In these artistic acts, the spectators become the artists. JR’s work combines art and action and break the boundary between different races, sex, color, religions, ages and nationalities. I think Hong Kong people could participate more in this project in order to create a city of their own.

Firstly, it is a good way to catch passengers and residents attention by fat human shape sculptures. Being a fit or thin people is a popular trendy in Hong Kong. However, Li does not like to show something normal. Her sculptures all are fat people which present in a leisure way such as eating doughnuts, sitting and reading, standing and fanning with paper pan, etc. I appreciate her idea. Her idea seem to put a green point on a red color paper. The relaxing attitude sculptures really bring a better atmosphere to a crowd MTR station. When the passengers see the sculptures, they may feel happy and less pressure to go back home. Besides, “keep fit” which is a term really including stress because we need to control our habit every moment. These sculptures are telling people that we do not need to do this and just kick out. Thus, it is really effective way to transfer this message by using a visual way.

Although the art work is nice, there is still some room of improvement. The art work can be improved by increasing the interactive with the public. Li said that “I hope the group of sculptures may also serve as a meeting point for MTR passengers and people living in the neighborhood.” However, there is no place to provide to the public so how can it be a meeting point? I suggest that there should be some empty chairs and tables between each sculpture. Hence, the public can integrate into the art work and feel the relax atmosphere in order to make it more likely a public art.

Furthermore, the art work can be more creative by adding some high-tech elements. I propose that there can be some sensors into each sculpture, for example, an infrared-red sensor. If the sensor detected some people, the sculptures would play corresponding sound effect. For instance, the feeding bird sculpture will play the creaking sound. I believed that the passengers willing to interact with a vivid Art work more than a silent work.

Besides the positive sides, I have a doubt which is the fat shaped sculptures may bring a wrong message to the public. Some people may affect and think that fat is relax, is good life style. It is totally an unhealthy concept. General speaking, citizen lifestyle is busy, if we encourage them to live lazy, they will do less exercise. And it is not the artist original idea but it cannot avoid. Therefore, I suggest that a description should put near the art work to let people understand what the artist original idea which can avoid wrong guessing cause bad society influence.

In conclusion, Li’s art work is a nice public art but still have room of improvement. If the art work adds some new elements, it can be more attractive. Also, the artists should consider the influence to the public if it is a public art.

By LWM53075134