December 2008 – The creative process
At the origin of this project there is a reflexion I had about remediation, its impact on today’s life and the development of new art forms. I tried to see New Media as a mean to give us another vision of “traditional” art.
An other inspiration is the film: “Le mystère Picasso”. Indeed, Clouzot, a French filmmaker won a price in Cannes in 1956 for his film “le Mystère Picasso”. He filmed Picasso painting using a fixed camera behind the canvas. Picasso was using special pen for black and white painting that were able to go through the canvas. The use of colors is remarkable, because when the artist draws with the pencil or with the charcoal, the film is in black and white; but when he starts to paint in colors, the colors appear. multiplying the processes of approaches and the points of view.
This film made me want to explore an artist creative process, and this is how I came to work on Giacometti’s creating process.
I had seen the exhibit at the Royal Academy of Arts “Miró, Calder, Giacometti, Braque: Aimé Maeght and His Artists” in October 2008.
And the James Lord book ” A giacometti protrait” help me to develop my project. What I kept in mind afterward is how Giacometti needed to do and redo many times his work before to be satisfied. He wanted to paint or sculpt what he was seeing but his vision itself was moving all the time.
The project concept is to be an animation available in a museum to understand better the creative process of an artist.
A sculpture being made
The first part is about a sculpture creative process. It consists in an interactive animation : the spectator can through the touch pad, play with it to make it grow up and down.
A painting being made
I tried to recreate the painting process from different pictures of a painting at different stage.