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Post by djehan on Apr 10, 2002 21:12:09 GMT -5
HENDEKA installation . Hendeka is a contemporary Art installation . painting/multimedia-video projections(by Aurelia-Djehan Derungs), 10+1 contemporary music surround sound(by Laurent mialon). The WTC fall is the subject . Check the first paintings scans available from private collection at : www.angelfire.com/fl5/hendeka/ |
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Post by hitoast on Apr 11, 2002 11:40:54 GMT -5
I had to take a look since you mentioned work on the WTC event. I liked your work quite a bit and wanted to share the painting I did on the WTC called "the world is flat" which I spent 14 hours painting on September 14th. - my office is about 8 blocks from the WTC site. Currently this painting is on display at a nightclub right behind the Museum of Nautral History in Manhattan. - yes I do like the ironly of being across the street from the Museum which houses the worlds great scientfic findings with a piece called "the world is flat", which was partially named such because of the religious wars which have resurfaced like they were 400 years ago when it was assumed by most that the world was flat. www.artmayhem.com/pages/worldpage.html |
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Post by hitoast on Apr 22, 2002 15:45:52 GMT -5
Djehan,
I just took some more time to look more closely at your WTC studies and the first think I wondered was how large are they?
Overall I like the style and somehow it reminded me of Klaus Oldenberg sketches.
What country are you from?
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Post by djehan on Apr 29, 2002 17:50:56 GMT -5
Hello, My paintings are a formal serie of 8 150highX120large centimeters canvas . I'm going to do a serie of 400highX300large cm, in fact Hendeka is not finished and is always being studied, so you see as well drawing essays of A3 format. I can't find any Klaus Oldenberg on the web, could you route me? Im from France Cordialement Djehan ps:Im working on a new version of the site at www.hendeka.org |
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Post by hitoast on May 28, 2002 13:45:10 GMT -5
- sorry for the delay in response - been swamped, anyway I actually was thinking of preparatory sketches by claes oldenburg. (sp) i cant find his sketches on the net either but remember them from an exhibit I saw many years ago. just the feeling of raw structural lines.
do you really think that there is much importance in where art movements originate these days? - since there is so much instant global interaction and people travel constantly (except for me) and move to regions as quickly as the seasons change?
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Post by djehan on May 31, 2002 14:22:23 GMT -5
I'm going to look for Claes Oldenburg, you know, two pieces of the Art shown are preparatory sketches too.
It's a very interesting question,the importance where art movements originate today..
I think that we still live on a planet made of continents and countries with strong or sometimes dangerous frontiers protecting original, deep and existing different cultures . But with the new e-communication, the world seems to get smaller, everything else going faster, information, wars, we are aware of what's happening on our entire planet, informed by different sources from different countries, a important mass of culture is turning into a massive melting pot.
I just feel where I come from inside me, I have a strong cultural heritage within my country but also from overseas.Im European living on the earth.But if I leave Paris to go live in the high mountains to make paintings of them, Im sure it would seem important to me where this serie of paintings came from, from which inspiration..It's a way of giving a cultural identity to a picture, another pictoral Art wich is Photography perfectly illustrates this concept of cultural identity . As an abstract painter, I relate to this concept too, because my work and the way it looks is inspired by the way watter ensenses you when falling from ice stalactics during autumn in the Pyrenean Mountain Chain .
So yes I think wether you move between countries,or towns, your direct environment is always a major source of inspiration . And it's important to have the eyes as wide open into the world as much as you can to know what you're doing..
But I don't know where I stand and what makes me wonder very much in life is that in the core of the sun right now, 16000° c
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Post by hitoast on Jun 5, 2002 21:11:05 GMT -5
I think you have nuclear war on your mind - as most thinking people right now. I read under a beer bottlecap today 'are we the endangered species?'
- have recently been reading about the ideals of 'futurism' almost 100 years ago - dont think they quite anticipated the colorful bloom of mental disorders that were bound to result from human 'sterilization'.
as far as the national enviroment influencing art I do agree with you to an extent but still feel that
influences are incorporated much faster and maybe a truly global style is arising right now - we just have to look for it. - or then again maybe ther has always been a universal style that we are just realizing.
did I take your mind off the sun for a moment? I have to say that painting the sun has always been one of my favorite exercises.
ciao
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Post by djehan on Jun 6, 2002 9:18:51 GMT -5
yes I do have a nuclear war on my mind and Im happy(hum, not really the right word)) to see that Im not alone thinking like that..
I think we are in a pre war situation.I think like that, I can't help it, and I would rather think the opposite and judge people like me as paranoids, but unfortunatly with all the stuff going on since the 11th....We are taking a new direction.
But for all I've been saying on my previous message about the roots of a culture and Art, after thinking two times in my head(humhum)I think that with the huge impact international communication is living, Art movements like the one I practice on the twins, wich is called Hendeka(11) because I thought a greek word could perfectly represent where we stand in our Art world today(and because my direct ancestor was Philodème de gadara, Epicurist master, Ciceron's lecturer, and I can't help but feeling written all into my blood and I think in everyone's blood), I do believe it's been a long time Art has been shared by all nations, Egyptians with Romans with the Greeks with the Syrians and so on until now between our countries . Check out even a Palestinian website on contemporary Art with weird installations and beautiful paintings..Artists from the all world are certainly doing something in their studios right now....With more and more the same chances to have a source of inspiration in common while on the other side of the planet..
In fact what is Art going to do in the case of a war .
I fully feel like Art is useless sometimes, and it's during those special times that Art has to be stronger and more beautiful than ever . It can become better maybe if in all countries we can find somebody good at it, very contemporary and everything in his/her Art . Doing a massive and necessary work for the present moment humanity is living , I think this is the mission of the contemporary Art..It must be trough all continents.But other people, more powerfull then artists, make war, they even try to use artists as puppets to control the global cultural scene trough the huge media's system and I don't like those artists too.
Anyway Jean Cocteau used to say "you must be a man alive and a posthumous artist".So let's just live for Art and carpe diem .
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