At the event place which goes through to the 3rd floor, first of all I was fascinated with the work which seems like taking off the brush and adds the mouth from Fancis Bacon by Fancis Supiot.

Fancis Supiot

He studied graphic and have been working at Paris, he usually collage the images which picked up from medical science books and biology books on the computer and make the images emerged on the dark screen. As compose puzzles he models the images on the computer and ultimately makes them as human shapes. Those graphic made me shocked with their lively colors and esthetic, at the same time they have morbid moods.

Olaf Hajek

Since these days we might have been in the floods of graphics by computers, when we care about manufacture works they make us even refresh our eyes. Olaf Hajek is one of the visual artists who works in Berlin. His works which human and view are coming up randomly seem like one scene from some B movies. Even though I mentioned human, they wear masks, octopus, and even long-spine porcupinefish. They stare us with some mysterious messages. These motifs which are in the middle of two concepts which are reality and imagination, seem to be able to reborn them as some actors on his stage by his magic hand. I could picture in my head that they are whispering something. Spontaneously I think of his nick name, Magical-Realist.

Lars Henkel

There is one more artist who we cannot miss. Lars Henkel who was born in Rome and works as an illustrator in Berlin. He uses basic expression techniques and mixes drawing, sculpture, and photograph on the computer. It seems like it is under cover of mist. The pictures are not out of focus. The Dolls which reminds us greece sculptures (most of them don’t have arms) appeared with beautiful black and white shade, and created a blank scene surreally. We can experience even more elegantly, like a Japanese sculptor Katsura Funakoshi lent Jan Švankmajer his chisel.

Overall, I think I found the tendency that they have goo balance with mixture of warmness of handwork and mind of computer. If one of them was lost, probably we lose our balance. The works seemed even much stronger than the ancient decoration of the pillar or ceiling which remain.

Illustrative Paris 07 will be held at Espaces Commines (17 rue Commines) from November 29th to December 9th, 2007.

Illustrative Berlin 07
Dare: August 31st – September 16th 2007
Place: Villa Elisabeth
Address: 3 Invalidenstr., 10119 Berlin
https://www.illustrative.de