12 June 2005
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What are the sizes of this,and of the previous pieces FEUERSTURM and HIND?
Is FEUERSTURM a collage or a painting and collage or is it a web-based work only? HIND looks like a painting on a photo.
I'm really enjoying your work.
Is FEUERSTURM a collage or a painting and collage or is it a web-based work only? HIND looks like a painting on a photo.
I'm really enjoying your work.
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: 2:05 AM
Martin,
those works are completely virtual made, sometimes I print them out (or stages of them)and put them in a frame and they hang in a Gallery here in Tbilisi.
Sizes are like 1200x960 px, it depends how I cut them. Then optimized for web, like 600x400 or likely. Based in those cases on a background photo (either scanned or digital shot). The places are real places in Feuersturm the "dangerous" ;-) Pankisi Valley in Georgia (the photo is from 1997) in Hind it is from the roof of my Garage.
Sometimes as in Hind, the original helicopter is a painted part of another painting of mine, what is often a completly different and not related one, then pasted into a new context. Like in Feuersturm, planes and explosions are made artificially, or cutted from random photos from my own, I have there a big material-base at my machine. I am not a Macromedia-Freehand- Freak, or Detail-freak, more lazy in fact, and want thinks have made very fast. Thats why I switched lately more to "virtual" work, and when I paint, it starts again to be a big headache, that's the high limits of painting, wich borders to break happens not so often, quite rarely. How many paintings of Picasso are really great ? 50, 40, 30, 20 ? Out of 3000 (I don't remember) That's why I mistrust "great" trendy painters like Neo Rauch so deeply.
The biggest painter so far (for maybe 10 years today)for me is Gustave Courbet, and even in those virtual works of mine, you can, if you want, see and feel that influence.
So if you like some of my work, it honours me a lot. Use them as material if you like, cut, paste, double, whatever, or make your own ideas. The base of those is very simple, not intellectual. But of course I am often thinking about, why should a work like this beeing cheaper than a real painting, thats bullshit. But we and the critics need to educate buyers on the long run to value such creations in hard money too, like they can get with it a digital signiture and a timestamp an it costs like 900,- USD, if your are famous 90.000
Best regards, I also get a lot of inspiration of your paintings !
Grijsz
those works are completely virtual made, sometimes I print them out (or stages of them)and put them in a frame and they hang in a Gallery here in Tbilisi.
Sizes are like 1200x960 px, it depends how I cut them. Then optimized for web, like 600x400 or likely. Based in those cases on a background photo (either scanned or digital shot). The places are real places in Feuersturm the "dangerous" ;-) Pankisi Valley in Georgia (the photo is from 1997) in Hind it is from the roof of my Garage.
Sometimes as in Hind, the original helicopter is a painted part of another painting of mine, what is often a completly different and not related one, then pasted into a new context. Like in Feuersturm, planes and explosions are made artificially, or cutted from random photos from my own, I have there a big material-base at my machine. I am not a Macromedia-Freehand- Freak, or Detail-freak, more lazy in fact, and want thinks have made very fast. Thats why I switched lately more to "virtual" work, and when I paint, it starts again to be a big headache, that's the high limits of painting, wich borders to break happens not so often, quite rarely. How many paintings of Picasso are really great ? 50, 40, 30, 20 ? Out of 3000 (I don't remember) That's why I mistrust "great" trendy painters like Neo Rauch so deeply.
The biggest painter so far (for maybe 10 years today)for me is Gustave Courbet, and even in those virtual works of mine, you can, if you want, see and feel that influence.
So if you like some of my work, it honours me a lot. Use them as material if you like, cut, paste, double, whatever, or make your own ideas. The base of those is very simple, not intellectual. But of course I am often thinking about, why should a work like this beeing cheaper than a real painting, thats bullshit. But we and the critics need to educate buyers on the long run to value such creations in hard money too, like they can get with it a digital signiture and a timestamp an it costs like 900,- USD, if your are famous 90.000
Best regards, I also get a lot of inspiration of your paintings !
Grijsz
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