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Artist William Kentridge talks in this video about his process of repeatedly erasing and reworking charcoal drawings to create his well-known stop-motion animated films. ...

I get to know South African artist William Kentridge in the moment by watching documentaries and his art work.

Recent press article over Kentridge illustrating Franz Schubert's "Winterreise": http://www.zeit.de/2014/25/william-kentridge-franz-schubert-winterreise

#kentridge #Illustration #animation

Disparateness

Pow Now - 2013 by Amy Feldman

No sorry, I didn’t enjoy the exhibition of Amy Feldman in Brussels at all.

It’s called “Grey Area” (British English) in Brussel’s Gallery Sorry We’re Closed and “Gray Area” (American English) on Amy’s own website.

Amplitudes, grey and white fields on four huge canvases in tiny gallery room hit you. Plus on the night of the vernissage I must have arrived in the wrong moment: grey people in white washed shirts some in minimalist’s black, in grey conversations, squeezing in this cell, looking at my black and white dog with big eyes. Stepped in, stepped out.

Now I read on the gallery’s website something about “visual clarity (…) undercut by humor” - uhu…

… and “the integrity of the edge is questioned and repurposed”- aha…

408 words praising Amy Feldman’s work.

Sorry, but It doesn’t proof me that black is white…

You can make up your mind about it until 16th March.

Some of her earlier work I like much more, it reminds me of african art, for example “ever after alls”.

Ever after - 2010 by Amy Feldman

Four paintings of Belgium artist/blogger/DJ Alex Deforce caught my attention rather more.

Only one week ahead the running exhibition he created four heads - an early deadline is part of his success.

This one ...

... Silence de la Madone I- by Alex Deforce ...

has to be taken off the wall in the weekends, because drunk folks leaned too hard against it. That can easily happen in the exhibition venue Bonnefooi a Brussel’s music café close to the AB concert hall. (Bonnefooi means “by chance or haphazardly” in the Brussels’ dialect.)

Unfortunately the artist put not all paintings up on his blog.

To give you an idea of my favorite image of the current exhibition: it is a mix out of this Cézanne like color field construction...

Portrait of Sachka - by Alex Deforce

and an outline of this intuitively ball pen scribble...

Study of Dalton - by Alex Deforce

...but worked out much more plastic.

Check out his work at the Bonnefooi until end of January. I like the two delicately written portraits right next to the entrance the most.

#Brussels #amy feldman #alex deforce #Illustration

chuckgroenink

Some bits from a new cover for an old book. Pro-tip: don’t include text in the illustration for a cover, unless you want to revise it every time it gets published in a different country.

#Illustration

Patricia's Hack #1: Fold Bag to mini size

Scrunched up plastic bags are not easy to store. They tend to swell out your cupboards and just take too much space. Here comes the triangular solution! (activate English subtitles!!)

Patricias Hack #1: Tüte zu Mini-Dreieck falten Zusammengeknüllte Plastiktüten lassen sich nur schwer lagern. Schnell quellen sie aus allen Ecken und nehmen zu viel Platz weg. Hier ist die dreieckige Lösung!

(via http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?u=/watch?v=p9jXpsTAJ0k&feature=share&a=eHYgUj_Pq10XweQzJkEGDQ)

#Tüte #Dreieck #Hack #bag #triangle #storage

Surprise: Manet's girl's bottom used to be much bigger

I live just around the corner of the Belgian Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (kik/irpa), right next to the park Cinquantenaire. Often when I passed by promenading with my dog Emma I wondered what they actually do in there. I imagined mostly elderly civil servants sitting between dusty shelves, filing and scanning hundreds of old photographs all day, paid with taxpayer’s money. So on their open house day they really surprised me…

Yes, there are people filing and numbering photographs but they are rather young and enthusiastic and under the roof of the kik/irpa you find also scientists who restore and document art of all kinds of material.

On the fifth floor for example is a long room where they restore textiles. A young woman was embroidering an old wall carpet where time has warn away the masterly weaved image of people and landscape. Her colleague explains that even clubs bring their historical flags in to be restored by the federal experts, funded by their sponsors and friends.

On the fourth floor chemists analyse microscopic pieces of colour pigments from paintings and objects to find out how old they are and how time has left its traces on the materials. There is for example the S2ART project studying the long-term role and fate of metal sulphides in painted works of art. With obvious pleasure Marc Vermeulen was explaining to me his PhD issue on which he and Dr. Jana Sanyova are currently working and will be for the comming four years. Their findings will also help to preserve art by understanding how atmospherically influences and even cleaning products used in museums having an effect on the materials.

In another laboratory the art historians work with x-ray and other radiation to discover how the artists were technically evolving their sculptures and paintings. On an x-ray image of Eduart Manet’s painting Argenteuil from 1875 showing a couple sitting at the quay you can see that the arm of the man was first painted in front of the lady’s arm, then Manet overpainted that. Also the woman’s bottom has been much wider originally...

The kik/irpa photo documentary team also shows its work full of pride. One of them referred me to the webpage http://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be, where an amazing close-up of the Ghent Altarpiece has been made available for the public. Jan van Eyck put the paintings up in the Saint Bavo cathedral around 1435. This report of the German public television gives an insight about the ongoing restoration.

I will definitely visit the kik/irpa on their next open house day again, there is so much to discover for fans of art and history...

#kik #irpa #belgium #cultural heritage #chemistry #x-ray #Manet #van Eyck #science

Hieronymus Bosch sterilized

Who swept clean the weirdo world of Hieronymus Bosch? - It was Hell'O Monsters, the Belgian collective formed by Jérôme Meynen, François Dieltiens and Antoine Detaille. 770 people announced on Facebook they would come to the vernissage of “Dead, Dumb and Blind” yesterday, seemed that they really did. It was absolutely packed.

With your nose just two centimetres away from the paintings, staring on the amazingly fine lines of Indian ink on fields of well chosen acrylic colours. How do six hands manage to keep a one square meter sheet of paper so clean while painting and drawing so accurate – wow! And how long does it take?

These are questions still to ask the artists, in the meanwhile they answered some others in their interview with Base.

Check out their complete repertoir at www.thehellomonsters.com and stay up to date with their facebook page.

The exhibition in the Brussel’s Alice Galerie is running until the 20th of December 2013. Photos beforehand the expo.

#art #Illustration #hell'o monsters #Brussels #Belgium #hieronymus bosch

codex seraphinianus

"In the late 70s italian architect, illustrator and industrial designer luigi serafini made a book, an encyclopedia of unknown, parallel world. it’s about 360-380 pages. it is written in an unknown language, using an unknown alphabet. it took him 30 month to complete that masterpiece that many might call 'the strangest book on earth'"

More scans via the_dimka: codex seraphinianus

#illustration #Luigi Serafini

codex seraphinianus

"In the late 70s italian architect, illustrator and industrial designer luigi serafini made a book, an encyclopedia of unknown, parallel world. it’s about 360-380 pages. it is written in an unknown language, using an unknown alphabet. it took him 30 month to complete that masterpiece that many might call 'the strangest book on earth'”

More pictures via the_dimka: codex seraphinianus

#illustration #Luigi Serafini

Stay hungry - Stay foolish!

Steve Jobs about the love for what you are doing which keeps you going: "The only way to be truly satisfied, is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work, is to love what you do. If you havn't found it yet - keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it."

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (by StanfordUniversity)

#Steve Jobs #love #work #team #satisfaction