Fabienne Verdier
“I enter the surface of the canvas almost explosively.”
Verdier paints on sheets of paper or canvases spread out on the floor. Her painting is vertical, playing with gravity, the weight of the paintbrush, the load of the ink and her body. Suspended between heaven and earth, the paintbrush is guided by spirit and hand, its handle at times hanging from over 10 meters of rope and held in place by a pair of bicycle handlebars. Her physical engagement is key: together with preparatory ascetic practice and “suchness” (the path of spontaneous expression), it forms the basis of Verdier’s work. Beyond this spontaneity of the stroke, the ink flow is also guided in producing the work, in particular in her very large formats. Verdier thus disengages from the rules of Chinese painting: she can go on. add to and rework the matter until she finds just the right form.”
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Olivier Ratsi ⎪ on Tumblr (France) - Huang Shan
Confronting the real world and the digital dream, Olivier Ratsi’s work is mainly based upon representations of world’s perception and the experience of reality. By deconstructing the reality into the mobile and the motionless fragmentation, artist disturbs our vision and invite us to discover and to take place in a new dimension that once belongs to him. Many thanks to Seriously Hazardous Art Gallery SHAG for this Tumblr Monday to introduce us this brilliant artist!
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"The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you’re supposed to go up and down when you’re supposed to go down. When you’re supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you’re supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there is no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness."
- Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
RedBall Project Paris
A 4.6-metre-wide red ball tours Paris’s sights as part of an art project which sees the ball set up in key locations across the world. New York-based installation artist Kurt Perschke says he wants the ball to visit tourist attractions and also locations only a Parisian would know
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Kaoua Gregory | on Tumblr (France) - Black Bangkok
After working for years with the great masters in fashion images, it is naturally for Kaoua Gregory to turn to the photography to develop his own expression. Avid for the techniques and the immobile storytelling, Gregory Kaoua leads us to his own world where dream and reality confront peacefully in one’s field of vision. Please follow artist’s Tumblr or contact SHAG for more works. Many thanks to the Seriously Hazardous Art Gallery SHAG for the 100st Tumblr Monday sharing!
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"But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o’clock in the morning."
- Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Sean Hart | seanhart-diary (France) - Blue Planet from the series SHINE (Winter 2012)
Love, freedom, honor are the central themes of the work of artist Sean Hart. This is primarily a work of writing - from the painting to the light. It’s a collection of poetic correspondences in the form of different series of texts that the artist stages and photograph. Each image, each set is sufficient for its own existence but all revolve around the common dream, the same idea, the same desire. Photography allows the artist to capture the ephemeral into a sustainable work, to set and store his interventions before they disappear, to collect them. Each photo builds up somehow pages of a diary - a journey diary. (Interview with artist by ARTchipel Mar-2012, roughly translated by ARTchipel)
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