Cloud vortices off Madeira Island

Cloud vortices off Madeira Island, Atlantic Ocean, Credit Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Jérome Fortin

Jérome Fortin, Le cabinet des curiosité / Des fleurs sous les étoiles, matériaux mixtes, 59 x 59 x10 cm, 1997
Jérome Fortin, Marine bleue Rimouski, bouteilles de plastiques, 60 x 60 x 10 cm, 2002

Patience, répétition et rituel...
Patience, repetition and ritual...

"Le travail de Jérôme Fortin, réalisé à partir d'objets du quotidien et basé sur le concept des cabinets de curiosités du 16e siècle (devant lesquels collectionneurs et curieux d'autrefois se délectaient devant des trouvailles exotiques) remonte à 1996, où il créait de véritables curiosités à partir d'allumettes, bouchons de liège, boîtes de conserves et autres attaches-poubelle. En 2000, l'objet, auparavant ni tout à fait bijoux, ni tout à fait amulette et toujours unique dans sa proposition visuelle laisse place à un travail dorénavant élaboré en séries, où la forme se répète et où les variations touchent principalement les couleurs. Jérôme Fortin s'exerce à répéter les même interventions sur les objets d'une même catégorie, tels que fils de téléphones, livres et bouteilles de plastique, redonnant à l'objet transformé en variations multiples son caractère industriel d'origine." Site de La Galerie Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain

http://www.jeromefortin.com/
http://www.pfoac.com/artists/jf-francais.htm

Simon Heijdens

Simon Heijdens, Tree interactive installation, 2005

Nature et architecture superposées.
Superimposed nature and architecture.

"Having originally studied experimental film-making, the Dutch designer SIMON HEIJDENS (1978-) turned to product design when studying at the Eindhoven Academy and now applies the spirit and techniques of film to the development of objects – all of which explore his “fascination with evolution” by changing over time to tell a story." Design Musium website

http://www.simonheijdens.com/
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/simon-heijdens

Karen M.Wirth

Karen M.Wirth, Viewpoints, silkscreen, paper, Fresnel lenses1995, copyright Smithsonian Institution

Science et livre d'artiste, un croisement passionnant!
Science and artists book, an enthralling crossing!

http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Science-and-the-Artists-Book/micr.htm

Tord Boontje

Tord Boontje, Wednesday Light, 2002

"Working on the cusp of design and craft, TORD BOONTJE, the Dutch-born, London-based product designer combines advanced technologies with artisanal techniques to create exquisite glassware, lighting and furniture." Design Museum Website

http://www.designmuseum.org/design/tord-boontje

Adele Outteridge

Adele Outteridge, Vessels, mixed material, 2004

Belle réflexion sur la structure du livre. Livre fabuleux.
Beautiful reflexion on the structure of the book. Fabulous book.

"Adele Outteridge, book artist, printmaker, sculptor, gained her B.Sc. from the University of Melbourne in 1967 after which she worked as an Experimental Scientist with CSIRO. She studied with the School of Colour and Design in Sydney between 1984 and 1988, returning as a lecturer-teacher. She taught at the Ku-Ring-Gai Art Centre from 1983 to 1989 as well as private studio classes.She runs a studio in Brisbane with Wim de Vos and travels to all states lecturing and teaching workshops. She has participated in schools' Artist-in-Residence schemes and has recently completed four years as president of the Australian Forum for Textile Arts.Her work in artists' books, printmaking, sculpture and drawing has been exhibited widely, is held in private and public collections and has appeared in books and magazines in Australia and overseas." From Lost and found Exhibition website

http://www.geocities.com/lost_and_found_hk_au/artists/adele_outteridge.htm
http://enc.slq.qld.gov.au

Peter Callesen

Peter Callesen (artiste du Danmark), Castle, 6 x 6 x 3 m, Cut and folded from one piece of 350 gsm paper Fairy Tale, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, Uk, 2007 Photo: Jonathan Shaw

Travail de minutie et de patience...

Work of meticulousness and patience...

"Take a piece of A4 paper, just a normal ordinary blank one as it comes out of the copy machine tray. You can write on it, draw on it, but also cut into it. Peter Callesen does so. Since 2004 parallel to his performance practice, he has been transforming two dimensional surfaces into three dimensional sculptures by the means of a paper cutter. From the white surface of ordinary A4 paper, a narrative arises. " Camelia Jalving

"Take a piece of A4 paper, just a normal ordinary blank one as it comes out of the copy m

http://www.petercallesen.com

Rober Racine

Rober Racine, Le terrain du dictionnaire (détail), 1980-81

Rober Racine, Dessin d'une page miroir, 1994

Travail acharné et minutieux sur le dictionaire Robert...
Keen and meticulous work on the dictionaire Robert...

"Rober Racine est né à Montréal en 1956. Il a fait des études en littérature, puis en cinéma et en histoire de l'art à l'Université de Montréal. Bien qu'il compose ses premières œuvres musicales dès 1973, il se fait connaître en 1978 pour ses interprétations des Vexations d'Érik Satie, une partition pour piano de cent cinquante-deux notes répétées huit cent quarante fois et dont l'exécution exige près de dix-huit heures sans interruption. Si la musique a été son " premier roman ", sa pratique artistique s'est aussi portée vers les arts visuels et la littérature. Depuis 1979, ses œuvres visuelles ont été présentées dans plusieurs musées au Canada, aux États-Unis, en Europe - notamment à la Biennale de Venise en 1990 et à la Documenta IX de Kassel en Allemagne en 1992, en Australie et au Japon. Ayant pour thème principal la littérature et plus spécifiquement l'écriture comme matériau visuel et sonore, l'œuvre de Rober Racine fait du littéral une donnée littéraire." Site internet de la fondation Émile Nelligan

http://rober-racine.com
http://www.fondation-nelligan.org/roberRacineBio.html

Wood Book

Mark O'Connor, John Tonkin, Sun Evrard, Frank Wiesner, Serge Amburger (artistes australiens), The grub in the wood of time, 1989

Reliure à charnière très inventive...
Binding with very inventive hinge...

http://www.artistsbooks.slq.qld.gov.au/home/find_artists_books

Cai Guo Quiang

Cai Guo Quiang (artiste chinois), APEC Drawings,Shanghai, China,2002

Dessins explosifs!
Explosive drawings!

"Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China. The son of a historian and painter, Cai was trained in stage design at the Shanghai Drama Institute from 1981 to 1985 and his work has, since the outset, been scholarly and often politically charged. Having accomplished himself across a variety of media, Cai initially began working with gunpowder to foster spontaneity and confront the suppression that he felt from the controlled artistic tradition and social climate in China at the time. While living in Japan from 1986 to 1995, Cai explored the properties of gunpowder in his drawings, an inquiry that eventually led to his experimentation with explosives on a massive scale, and the development of his signature explosion events, exemplified in his series, Projects for Extraterrestrials. These explosion projects, both wildly poetic and ambitious at their core, aim to establish an exchange between viewers and the larger universe around them. "
From the artist website

http://www.caiguoqiang.com

M.L. Van Nice

M.L. Van Nice (artiste américaine), Plinitude, seeds, bones, insect wings, feathers, wood, leather, paper, acrylic, 1994, Copyrigth Smithsonian Institution

Science et livre d'artiste, un croisement passionnant!
Science and artists book, an enthralling crossing!

http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Science-and-the-Artists-Book/scie.htm

Irma Boom

Irma Boom, SHV Book, 1996

Irma Boom, Vitre work Spirit book, 1998

Une designer inspirante pour tout les créateurs de livre.
A designer inspiring for all book creators.

"Many of the most beautiful books to have been designed in recent years are the work of IRMA BOOM. Born in Lochem, the Netherlands in 1960, Boom has won international acclaim for the iconoclastic beauty of her books."Design Museum

http://www.designmuseum.org/design/irma-boom

Light Transmissible Block

Tokujin Yoshioka Design (designer japonais), Ligth transmissible block, presentation plan

Design rafraichissant et lumineux.
Rafreshing and luminous design.

http://www.tokujin.com

Kenich Hoshine

Kenish Hoshine, Drawing 006 (for Compound Gallery, Portland, OR) - Pen, Acrylic on Paper

Minimaliste et complexe à la fois...
Minimalist and complex at the same time...

"Kenichi Hoshine was born in Japan, raised in New Jersey and educated in New York. His paintings have been exhibited in various cities around the world including New York, London, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland. He currently resides in New York." From his website

http://www.kenichihoshine.com

Observatory Tower

Jean Beaudoin (architecte canadien), Observatory Tower, Busan South Korea

Perspective inspirante...

http://www.integral.jeanbeaudoin.com

Silia Ka Tung

Silia Ka Tung (artiste anglaise d'origine chinoise), On the Couch, permanat Ink on Canevas, 157 x 218 cm, 2001

Minimale et organique...
Minimal and organic...

http://www.siliakatung.com/

Maya Lin

Maya Lin, "Avalanche," 1998. Glass, 10 x 19 x 21 feet.

Maya Lin, "Untitled (Topographic Landscape)," Particle board, 16 x 18 x 2 feet, 1997.

Maya Lin, "The Wave Field," 1995. Shaped earth; 100 x 100 feet. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Matière vivante de paysage.
Living matter of landscape.

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/lin/index.html

Su Blackwell

Su Blackwell, The Snow Queen series, book-cut sculpture, 27 x 32 x 23 cm, 2005

Travail inspirant et léger comme un rêve.
Work inspiring and light like a dream.

"Su Blackwell's work is handmade. There is something of a delicate beauty at work here. It is evocative of dream-time and puts into visual form some very transient ideas. An empty child's dress transforms into hundreds of butterflies. The work is fragile, precious. There is a desire to utilise non-art materials; she uses what is at hand. There is an obsessive, repetitive action at work, transforming the everyday into the fantastical. She transforms old books into three-dimensional theatres, and her reconstruction offers up to the viewer many questions. We can no longer physically read the book, so in that way it is made redundant; and yet on another level it has taken on a new life and is telling a different story. Her work gives a new dimension to the rich European tradition of storytelling: in the early 1880s Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm published Grimm's Fairy Tales, a collection of folk stories, and Hans Anderson wrote 135 Fairy Tales between 1835 and his death in 1875. In many of these so-called 'Fairy Stories' there is a darker side, far removed from the Wonderful World of Disney." Steffan Jones-Hughes 2006

http://www.sublackwell.co.uk

Julie Doucet

Julie Doucet, J comme Je (essais d'autobiographie), seuil, 2005

Extrait:
Et oui, chaques mots sont découpés et collés pour former le texte... Livre magnifiquement fou.
http://www.bdquebec.qc.ca/auteurs/doucet/juliedoucet.htm

Musée Rodin à Seoul

Architecte Kohn Pedersen Fox (USA)
http://www.kpf.com/main.asp

Construction

Provenance perdue.

Berlin Street Art

Berlin Street Art, Prestel, Berlin, 2005

Chine (vision satellite)

La musique des mots

Rober Racine, Le dictionnaire suivi de La musique des mots (disque et partitions), L'Hexagone, Montréal, 1998

Extraits:

Pour être artiste, toujours essayer.
Éclairer la science.
R.R. 734

Le corps est une main.
Son coeur un manuscrit.
R.R. 1131

Le visage est un lieu de pélerinage.
Des jardins imprimés.
R.R. 1150

http://rober-racine.com/

Danielle Blouin, Un livre délinquant : le livre d'artiste comme expérience limite, Fides, Montréal, 2001

"Le livre devient le lieu de tout les possibles, contenant plus qu,il ne laise supposer de par sa simplicité de son apparence... une métaphore de l'univers entier..." DB

Pancho Quilici

Pancho Quilici, Galerie Thesa Herold, Paris, 2004

Ubiquité gravitante, 2004

Nitescence en soi, 2004

Carte ville en mer

Perdu la provenance

Peter Eisenman

Cités de l'archéologie fictive / Oeuvres de Peter Eisenman 1978-1988, Centre Canadien d'architecture, Montréal, 1994

Agence Eisenman / Robertson Architects,
Maquette du musée d'art de l'université, California State University, Long Beach, entre le 2 juin et le 5 août 1986. Peinture rose, verte, or et bleue, acrylique, mousse colorée, tilleul, 17,8 x 101,6 x 91,4 cm. Collection University Art Museum/California State University Long Beach Fondation

Anne Cauquelin

Deux livres incontournables pour tous ceux qui s'intéressent au paysage, à l'environnement, à l'urbanisme, à la linguistique, aux espaces virtuels et à l'art contemporain.

Anne Cauquelin, L'invention du paysage, PUF, Paris, 2000

"Voir la nature des choses montrer dans leur liaison, soit: un paysage." A.C.

"C'est toujours l'idée du paysage, sa construction qui donne une forme, un cadre, des mesures à nos perceptions - distances, orientation, point de vue, situation, échelle." A.C.


Anne Cauquelin, Le site et le paysage, PUF, Paris, 2002

"La notion de site trouvera sa place à mi-chemin de la notion de paysage et celle d'un espace dit "virtuel". Une des acceptation concerne l'espace teritorial - le site d'une ville, d'une entreprise -, l'autre appelle l'espace électronique - les sites du réseau..." A.C.

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