Baptiste Debombourg

AGGRAVURE

The protagonist Icarus, the Mannerism of the Renaissance and the symbol of sublime power Air Force One (the official plane of the President of the USA) are the main points in this work. The combination of pathos, beauty and unnatural movement of Italian Mannerists, is concealing some kind of aggression.

Is it why this “Superman” is directly flying down the earth ?

Here tackers are used as a material and a media, which are playing with the contemporary agression and the profane utility of the everyday life.

For a long time, engraving has been the only technique allowing the wide-spreading of images. Its history is a succession of technical developments and is also strongly characterized by the increasing use of images and thus, by the evolution of their function (lithography, photography, serigraphy), have gradually expanded the range and potential of expression in 20th century art .

What I find most interesting in Mannerist engraving, is the representation developed around mythological and religious themes and their potential echoes in today's super-heroes, bodybuilders... and the violence of "Male-Power cult “.

I then use some images by "worsening" the scale, the form or the context to produce an installation in the architecture by means of staples. The recurring theme in these paintings revolves around the collapse that resonates with staples. Here the staple is a material and a media that plays with contemporary aggression and daily life’s secular usefulness.

  

(inspired by Hendrik Goltzius by Cornelisz van Haarlem drawings,  second visual by Jan Harmensz. Muller, third from Hendrick Goltzius, Jan Harmensz, Cherubino Alberti ... who have themselves reproduced the work of Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, Adrien de Vries/ Dürer serie and "Agony in the Garden solo show ")
Dürer).

chen chun-Hao

He calls the practice “my kung fu” and adds, “When I started this, the nail gun was just a nail gun.  Now it’s turned into a brush.”. 

His ways of art work reminds me of violence because its the process of making art like this, creating a bang to each nail to the canvas. It's like a crime that a murderer would commit because of its aggression, the violent sound and the harsh movement of the nail slicing through the wood. It's impressive work to see these amazing outcomes, due to the size of the nail to the scale of the work.

Ho-Ryon Lee

Korean artist Ho-Ryon Lee’s pieces are classified as paintings, although they look much closer to photography. Indeed, he paints on canvas but the previous process includes the artist taking several photos of the model in a specific pose and composing them together via Photoshop. The suggestive and dynamic of his overlapping images, skirt flirts in this case with a highly erotic component, make them visually delightful. Through seduction and voyeurism, revealing and hiding, the object of desire is shown.

The artist really captures the human's movement by the other faded movements, I think it passes off as sexual due to the positions of the hands lifting the skirt up, it's like a tease to the public. But I like the style of it because of the help of photoshop, but to actually paint it is the main skill behind it.

stencil

during my exploratory stage we went on a graffiti art tour in east london. the tour guide exposed us to a whole new art style and art life, the reasons why its a different art life is because it's illegal to produce pieces of art on the public street. As we thought we were allowed to produce art pieces on our school ground, we came up with ideas to represent anything we could think of. so by doing so I create this piece where this little monkey is painting his future, to be a bigger and successfull person a.k.a the gorilla.

after exploring the graffiti stage I continued a little more because when I went to the graffiti art tour, I was inspired to have a go at it. I remember drawing an astronaut and a fence player together because they both have white suits and so I thought what would it look like if it was all orange, bright orange. so I came up with the idea of A.T.N (Ass. Tro. Naaaat). I decided to draw it on a big sheet of wood in school but I suddenly began to dislike it because it didn't give off the street art vibe. so I began to go out with a friend to put up my work around my neighbourhood.