Mårten Nilsson

Saw a fantastic little film on SVT Play - Mårten Nilsson's "Fågel däruppe".
The edititing is great, the combination of clips and treatment is superlight, seemingly haphazard but the film still feels dense and meaningful. Yeah. That just sounded extremely pretentious. But I really liked it, and this is my note to myself to remember.

I saw This is Alaska as well. Different, (I liked it :), but the other one more).


Eric Manigaud

Amazing!
I have someone who's work connects to mine and yet is different in good ways.
From the Saatchi text:

"Drawings that transcribe existing photographs operate on a tension between fast (the photograph fixing the image) and slow (the laborious transcription of something seen), and that contradiction is a way of probing our experience of the visual image and its claim to truth."*

..."so that his works occupy physical space in a way rarely associated with the photographic image: these are images that exist in our space, and must be negotiated physically."*

Not that much time has passed since the days when I felt I had to make things up when writing a bio or artist statement or exhibition text. That dark age has (at least temporarily) passed. And I am happy to read that I am not completely living in my own bubble.
In other words, sometimes I think I am crazy, this makes me feel less so.
:)

> Pics are screenshots from Charlie Smith Gallery website http://charliesmithlondon.com/

Eric Manigaud | Crime Scene (Colombes) | 2007 | Pencil & graphite powder on paper | 156x179cm


Eric Manigaud | Trachoma Pannus Keratitis 1916 | 2015 | Pencil, graphite powder on paper | 150x125cm

*http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/eric_manigaud.htm?section_name=paper