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01/07/2020

Art video on the COVID-19 Pandemic (from Scientific Emotions by TakT)



The virtual art installation “Scientific Emotions” is conceived as a psychological and scientific art experience that is meant to invite its audience into an exploration of human emotions and sentiment. Scientific Emotions brings forth a combination of scientifically created elements and the study and implementation of scientific theory on brainwave frequencies through the vehicle and expression of an artistic audiovisual medium. 

This emotion was greatly influenced and colored by the recent world wide pandemic of COVID 19.


Visual data shown in science generally appears as a form of evidence for various hypotheses, not as art that can connect to the emotional psyche of a human. Scientific Emotions aims to change this first purpose and to highlight the poetic aspect of scientific data by using them as symbols and underlay them into an artistic composition.

Once the songs were composed with the added layers of binaural beats and isochronic tones, TakT used artificial intelligence which studied the harmonic frequencies of each “emotion”. TakT proceeded to direct and manipulate the AI to interface and sculpt each songs' harmonic resonances for further clarity.



TakT: TakT is the collaboration between science artists Adèle Tilouine (Visual director, Paris, France) and Tyler Kaufman (Sound director, Los Angeles, USA/Paris France). TakT aims to create philosophical art experiences with the help of new technologies, interactive installations and science. Through a shared philosophy that guides their path of creativity, the interdisciplinary process of Kaufman and Tilouine sculpts the creation of their audiovisual collaboration. In their collaboration, TakT takes multiple scientific theories and data out of their context to recontextualize, poeticize and transform them into artistic experiences. The art experiences in turn attempts to explore the humanities and the internal psyche of the mind. TakT is the result of this interdisciplinary and international exploration.

 For information on TakT visit: www.taktarts.com
 Facebook @takt.zeitt
Instagram @takt.arts

A Special thanks: TisBIO Lab (UGSF Team ), Lille University, France Team UMR 8198 (Evolution Ecologie Paléontologie), Lille University Turku PET Centre and Department of Psychologie (Team of Pr Lauri Nummenmaa), Turku University, Finland Pr. Salah El Mestikaoui, McGill University, Canada Bill Barminski.

23/10/2018

Benjamin Thollet, explorer l’esthétique de l’Art Brut





Devant les structures complexes et inventives des dessins de Benjamin Thollet, jeune artiste autodidacte originaire de Lyon, l’œil peine à se poser, presque affolé par la quantité de détails, tantôt humoristiques, tantôt terrifiants. Parfois agrémentées de couleurs, ces compositions laissent toutefois une grande part au trait d’encre noire, dont l’intensité varie pour forger contours et zones d’ombre. Des lignes conductrices nerveuses et saillantes, qui évoquent l’art brut, sont ornées d’une multitude de motifs, d’une grande liberté de forme, qui se déploient sur le papier. Ces accumulations de détails, infimes parties de l’œuvre qui interrogent la narration picturale et donnent son sens à l’œuvre, sont organisées de manière à intervenir dans un second temps. D’abord attiré par la structure globale, qui semble vibrer au rythme des détails parcourant le tableau, l’œil s’attarde ensuite sur chaque scénette,  sur chaque effet de matière, qui peuvent être considérés comme des œuvres à part entière. Les personnages, monstrueux et grotesques, presque confondus avec leur environnement, sont le plus souvent relayés au rôle de motif, composant la structure globale comme des éléments d’architecture. Leurs visages, dont les traits distordus sont proches de la caricature, reflètent des états d’âme tourmentés, des sensations fortes, des émotions bouleversantes qui peuvent susciter de l’empathie ou de l’aversion, mais ne laissent indifférent. L’esthétique quasi organique de ces ensembles est parfois dérangeante, comme si l’artiste, en grattant les couches à l’aide de sa plume, avait fait apparaitre les muscles et les nerfs de la structure.




Une impression de dualité se dégage des oeuvres percutantes et troublantes de Benjamin Thollet. La raison de cette double impression s’explique par le processus de travail adopté par l'artiste, qui se déroule en deux temps, comme il l'explique lui-même :
 « Je pars d’une image mentale frappante qui se déploie sur le papier. Dans un premier temps, je mets en place la structure, d’abord au crayon, puis aux posca et promarker. Je repasse ensuite les contours au posca noir en mettant en évidence les points de fuites. J’ajoute éventuellement une mosaïque de couleurs vives, qui sont alternées, sans jamais se toucher ni se mélanger. Dans un second temps, j’ajoute les ombres et détails au staedtler 08 et 005, en revenant sans cesse sur mon travail pour valoriser la structure brute par l’ajout de détails plus composés et réfléchis. Ces détails, souvent humoristiques et dérangeants, parfois symboliques, se greffent à la structure principale et j’y ai trouvé quelque chose de profond, comme un travail de fouille archéologique avec différentes strates à explorer. Leur conception est un travail méditatif et envoutant, qui me happe et au cours duquel j'ai une sensation de flottement intense».




On décèle avec plaisir une évolution dans les compositions de Benjamin Thollet qui, avec le temps, s’épurent et font une place grandissante à la couleur, tel le parcours plastique d'une trajectoire personnelle et maîtrisée au sein d'une forêt d'inspiration: « Avant de me passionner pour le dessin, je m’intéressais surtout au cinéma et au montage, ce qui m’a appris à composer une image. Mes premières œuvres découlaient de mon attrait pour l’art brut, dans lequel j’ai baigné toute mon enfance, et de mon intérêt pour des dessinateurs de bande dessinée et de dessin animés - tels que Robert Crumb, Fluide glacial, Gotlib, Franklin, René Laloux, Moebius, Philippe Druillet, Winshluss, Takahata, Satoshi kon, myazaki, Otomo, ou encore Enki Bilal, dont le travail frappant a causé mon premier vertige artistique. Ces premiers travaux ne répondaient pas toujours à mes attentes esthétiques et c’est pourquoi j’ai décidé de me pencher sur l’accumulation de détails, dont la beauté complexe me fascinait. Je désirais montrer la construction du dessin avec quelques zones très marquées où s’accumulaient formes et effets de textures et c’est après avoir suivi des cours de modèle vivants aux Beaux-Arts de Lyon, que j’ai  véritablement pris confiance en mon trait et établi mon style. J’ai également suivi l’enseignement de François Millet, à l’atelier Capy Darra, qui m’a initié à l’histoire de l’art et m’a aidé à me cadrer. C’est alors que je suis revenu vers la couleur, qui me sert principalement à mettre en valeur les détails et à inciter l’œil à faire des trajets dans l’œuvre en laissant des zones de papier vierge qui contrastent avec des zones très détaillées, parfois nerveuses ou violentes, et des espaces de couleurs vives. Je m’intéresse également de plus en plus à l’impression de vide et de profondeur de plan, que j’essaye d’exploiter dans mes nouveaux dessins.»



L’iconographie des dessins de Benjamin Thollet est hantée par des créatures étranges qui évoquent tour à tour les peintures expressionnistes et torturées d’Otto Dix, les monstres qui habitent les compositions complexes de Jérôme Bosch ou encore les chimères humoristiques de Terry Gilliam. Certains personnages, que l’artiste désigne lui-même par le terme Goom, ont des visages déformés, souvent terminés par une excroissance en forme d’aiguille, évoquant les masques qui protégeaient les médecins de la peste. Ces « Gooms » sont présents de manière récurrente dans différente mises en scène, toujours un peu oniriques et inquiétantes : « Ces créatures sont pour moi comme des alter ego,  qui synthétisent mes peurs. J’avais besoin de les mettre sur papier ;  ensuite une histoire s’est créée autour d’eux, de manière presque mythologique. Il s’agit d’individus qui se repaissent des autres, non pas au sens physique mais plutôt qui dévorent l’intériorité d’autrui, son Moi. Ils synthétisent la manipulation, le jeu avec les émotions des autres, à mes yeux c’est un personnage en lequel chacun dériver à un moment de sa vie. Petit à petit plusieurs types de gooms se sont distingués et le personnage a évolué : après avoir dévoré autrui, ils sont devenus moins destructeurs. Le goom est finalement devenu plus ambigu ; il a gagné en cynisme et en humour. Je l’envisage presque comme une personne avec une évolution intérieure. » 



L’univers visuel de Benjamin Thollet est une forme de langage inédit qui explore la psyché humaine par des paraboles visuelles émancipées du conditionnement académique et qui bousculent les normes esthétiques. L’artiste dévoile une intériorité troublée et parfois tourmentée au travers de ces dessins structurés et sophistiqués qui invitent à une réflexion philosophique sur la complexité de la nature humaine. J’invite le lecteur à se rendre sur la page web dédiée à son travail pour en apprendre d’avantage : https://www.facebook.com/MOOG-809708705726860/




29/04/2018

Gopal Kalapremi Shrestha, when sculpture meets ceramics


 Bulls serie, ceramics

Sculptor, ceramist and visual artist, Gopal Kalapremi Shrestha is a Nepali artist who occupies an important place in the artistic milieu of his country. He creates, exhibits, animates workshops and participates in residences in Nepal and abroad since the 1980s. His production is a unique universe, inspired by tribal shapes that he revisits with very clean lines of great sophistication. Gopal Shrestha freely uses all that surrounds him: clay, plants, minerals, wax, metal, sand, sawdust, gold leaf and many other mediums to give us his own vision of the world through a syncretic prism. If one clearly distinguishes the influence of Nepalese tribal art, especially the Tharu ethnic group living in the south of the country, the themes he addresses are directly related to his country's most contemporary period and the difficulties that it crosses. His creations are divided into several series with contrasting aesthetic styles, such as the one devoted to the revolutionary period that shook Nepal from 1996 to 2006 or his latest series of tribal-inspired chess pieces Tharu. His work derives from his observation of the socio-cultural transformations of Nepal but also reflects the cultural syncretism characteristic of Nepali society. From the people's war to gender relations to the exile of Nepali youth seeking a better life abroad, many aspects of contemporary Nepalese society are being explored by Gopal Kalapremi Shrestha, who has an excellent perception of his society and exceptional sensitivity to grasp his surroundings.


Chess pieces serie, ceramics



Coming from a modest family, but from a caste where the work of the land is not an acceptable occupation, nothing will come to block his desire to become an artist ceramist and sculptor. He will hold various positions to finance his studies in an art school: "I had many jobs when I was young, I washed dishes in restaurants, did laundry  for hotels, I cooked , tinkered and finally I taught as soon as I could. All these experiences allowed me to finance my studies at the Fine Art Lalit Kala Campus in Kathmandu and to start my career as a sculptor in the 1980s. "He then began to read books on art, especially the ceramic. Afterwards, his travels abroad allowed him to observe ceramics from different traditions and to interact with ceramists. "I have always asked my ceramicist friends from outside Nepal to bring me something useful when they come here, they gave me books, gloves and other equipment that is valuable because these are things that can’ t be bought in Nepal. It is also difficult to get quality materials and produce them myself became a necessity because it was impossible to import the chemicals needed for my work. That is why I quickly began researching chemicals and what could be extracted from minerals, different clays and Nepalese flora. With these materials I created my own recipes for colors and unique texture effects ".


 Exhibition of ceramic rocks, Taragaon museum, Kathmandu

Cultural transfers and the multiplication of exchanges have continually drawn the art of Gopal Kalapremi Shrestha into a series of mutations that contribute to the impression of diversity that one experiences in front of his work. Indeed, the artist travels often, both within his country and abroad, and feeds on the aesthetics and new techniques he faces: "During my youth I traveled to Nepal, then I went abroad and especially in Europe, where for example I learned new techniques from ceramic artists in the south of France, but now since the rise of the internet, I have access to many information from home ". His home, located in Kathmandu, houses his workshop and part of his work. Looking like a museum, it also hosts a collection of contemporary art, but above all, it welcomes artists who come here to learn the techniques of ceramics, such as Gopal has transformed and adapted it, forging a hybrid technical knowledge that he teaches to stimulate interest in Nepalese ceramics, different from traditional Asian ceramics: "In India and China, as well as in Japan, the art of ceramics is very developed whereas in Nepal there is very little ceramic. Artisans and artists often stick to pottery because the techniques of ceramics and cooking are more complex and require material difficult to find in Nepal. Yet the earth is a very lively matter and is everywhere. Moreover, thanks to the technique and a little sensitivity it is possible to offer nobility to this matter yet so humble and easy to find. I turned to this material naturally, because instinctively I was attracted to it ".  Gopal also travels regularly to a pottery community Tharu, a tribe who practices the art of pottery but does not know ceramics, to introduce them to this art.




 Masculinism serie, ceramics

By combining technical skills and in-depth knowledge of materials with great inventiveness, Gopal Kalapremi Shrestha is an explorer of forms and materials: "It seems crucial to me to combine one’s technical and gestural skills with knowledge of the materials themselves . In my eyes, materials have their own language, both organic and social. Today, the majority of artists buy manufactured materials and do not always realize what they are made of; nevertheless, when one is interested in the organic nature of the material and the imaginary associated with the material, one manages a better control of his work. Each technique also has a language. For example the technique of raku (technique of ceramic cooking inherited from Japan) makes it possible to obtain cracks whose writing is particular and recognizable, but which varies according to each piece ".



In addition to his creative work, Gopal Kalapremi Shrestha teaches at the Kathmandu University Center for Art and Design and has also taught at Jeonju University in South Korea. He animated ceramic workshop in Korea, Pakistan, France, Denmark, Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka. He has published several books on ceramics and sculpture techniques as well as poems. This interdisciplinary artist carries out a work of cultural interbreeding that highlights the contrasts of the modern and traditional society in which he evolves. To discover more about his work I invite you to follow the following link to his facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/gopalkalapremi.shrestha?ref=br_rs

16/12/2016

Animated marine sculptures by Yutaka Kamiyama





Painter, sculptor and craftsman, gifted with both the ability of designing complex machines and meticulously reproducing nature, Yutaka Kamiyama is a polyvalent Japanese artist, active for more than twenty years in a small seaside town near Tokyo.
Great observer of the marine world, he realizes fascinating kinetic sculptures carved in wood, inspired by the marine fauna, while teaching painting and crafts in parallel. His thorough and delicate animal sculptures are in fact complex and ingenious machines: his marine animals are arranged on carved wooden pedestals that borrow various forms evoking alternately algae, corals or even the ripples of water. These structures are equipped with handles to operate the machinery and animate each real or imaginary marine creature. These kinetic sculptures plunge the spectator into a dreamlike universe, where a whole aquatic bestiary takes life, each piece of wood that compose the body of the animal moves individually. When they are animated, thanks to the action of the handle, we can witness a strange ballet where the dancers are whales, sailfish, sperm whales, scorpionfishes or fish of the abyss, floating in the air gracefully, without truly going anywhere. The poetry that emerges from this spectacle is further reinforced by the scale changes that these animals undergo: the sailfish seems bigger than the sperm whale, the scorpionfish as imposing as the small whale. This game of scale evokes both models of natural sciences and old elaborate toys and form a playful, educational, accessible and particularly endearing visual universe.





Made from natural materials and related to the movement of the body, these animal sculptures break away from technology and robotics and rather bond with the natural sciences and wildlife observation. These sculptures explore the dialectic between the artist, the public and the animal; above all, they question the links between Man and Nature. Man is indeed a part of the work, in the same way as the structure of wood and each piece follows its own grammar, as conceived by the artist: "The main body is carved in wood of hinoki cypress, camphor and gingko; These woods have a strong symbolic significance in Japan and were used in particular for ancient Buddha statues. For the plinth and the mechanical parts, I use a harder wood such as green oak, cherry, elm, chestnut or maple. Each wood has its own characteristic; their differences can be seen by observing their color, their perfume, and their viscosity. I am deeply fascinated by every property of these woods and I see the life of a tree through each piece of them. Using wood, my intention is also to revive the life of the tree in a new form.” The approach of resurrection of the living being undertaken by Yutaka is expressed in the address he shows in his way of imitating animal gestures.





Each artificial animal of Yutaka Kamiyama borrows precisely the gesture that his living model uses to move under the water, thus adding to the impression of realism but also to the poetry that there is to give a new life to wood, in the form of Animals. The movement does not generate a shift but reproduces slowlier the way of moving of each animal, decomposed into mechanical gestures which allows to appreciate with more intimacy the rhythm of the animal. This decomposition of the movement evokes the photographs of Jules-Etienne Marey, or Eadweard Muybridge, who present the prints of each gesture that make up the behavior of an animal in chronological order to decompose it. Nevertheless, the marine animals of Yutaka Kamiyama are animated by a real impulse which is not only suggested by two dimensions; Like the mobiles by Alexander Calder, the machines of Jean Tinguely, the works of the constructivists or even those of several digital artists, this movement participates entirely to the identity of the work. The artist insists on this essential aspect: "I consider that a piece is complete only when the audience animates the sculpture by operating the handle. Public participation is an integral part of the work. "Yutaka Kamiyama aims to make the viewer an actor of his own perception, to lead him into a dynamic of sensory and semantic enlargement. Each of his sculptures can be seen as an experience. The action of the handle makes it possible to hear the crackling of the wood, the squeaks of the mechanisms and the shocks of the articulated parts, thus creating a unique sound landscape, exploring both the plastic and music qualities of wood. Unlike traditional art forms where the interaction between the work and the viewer is primarily a mental event, these interactive machines multiply sensory experiences and participate in a total art combining painting, sculpture, scenography and animation.



 

By combining his technical and biological knowledge with a subtle and dreamlike poetry, Yutaka Kamiyama succeeds in reproducing nature by mechanics. This process can remind of the animated marine animals of Bob Potts, but Yutaka Kamiyama distinguishes himself from this latter by his use of natural materials and especially by the meticulousness of his achievements: "I realized the first piece of this series seven years ago, after my meeting with a sperm whale of 15 meters long, stranded on the beach near my home. Its size and shape struck me and since then I have a great interest in marine life and its environment, which I observe for long hours each day. I am also concerned about its safeguarding and my work also consists in raising awareness of the crucial aspect of the protection of marine fauna ". Thus, each marine animal depends on the spectator to become animated and it is only when the spectator acts that the animal comes to life. This process makes it possible to become aware of the importance of individual action in safeguarding marine fauna, whose fragile equilibrium is threathned.




The kinetic marine fauna of Yutaka Kamiyama was recently presented in Paris at the Salon Art Shopping 2016, where he exhibited a whale from his bestiary: "It was really a good experience for me, I had the opportunity to meet people from all over the world who showed interest in my play.” I myself had the opportunity to activate it, to feel the wooden mechanisms set in motion and see the animal come to life in a remarkable way. This experiment as playful as poetic freezes the time and one can remain for a long time activating the crank while watching the animal taking life. These pieces will be exhibited at two events in Japan in 2017: "My biggest pieces will be exhibited during the collective show" Kokuten ", at the National Art Center in Tokyo in May 2017. I also plan to show my biggest three-dimensional work during "The 27th UBE BIENNALE" in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, in August. "
I invite the reader to visit the site of Yutaka Kamiyama which can be found below, to follow the evolution of his work and to discover all his kinetic sculptures.