Animation
Artwork
Representation
#Alain Biet
#drawing
#forestall movement
#video
#watercolor
Pieces you could in finding on a shelf within the storage or packed away within the basement—like wrenches, your previous MP3 participant, key fobs, or spare mild bulbs—transform stars in their very own proper in Alain Biet’s spell binding animation. “Grands Canons,” which interprets from French to “Large Weapons,” opens with a close-up of the artist drafting a sensible, inexperienced pencil in watercolor. As soon as the rendering is whole, we meet some other pencil, and some other, as a “visible symphony” of hundreds of actual drawings unfolds.
Biet’s intricately detailed illustrations spotlight on a regular basis gadgets we would possibly in finding in a junk drawer, a closet, and even destined for the trash, emphasizing various types and the way pieces have developed over the years. His survey of generation and gear stokes a tinge of nostalgia, too. Understand that previous Discman, SLR digicam, or Nokia brick? The group’s all right here in a dizzyingly choreographed collection, accompanied by way of an authentic ranking that responds to the rhythms and actions of the drawings as they skitter and whirl around the floor.
In finding extra of the artist’s paintings his web site and Instagram.
All photographs © Alain Biet
#Alain Biet
#drawing
#forestall movement
#video
#watercolor
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