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24 janvier 2009

Libel Arts: Wayne White

Filter Magazine, Thursday, January 22, 2009


Having worked on Pee Wee’s Playhouse in 1986 as a set and puppet designer (winning three Emmy awards for his work) and also art directing Peter Gabriel’s smash-hit video, Big Time, Wayne White’s career has been both prolific and evolving.

These days, however, White is turning heads with his novel, though some say trendy, re-workings of cheap landscape paintings found in thrift stores and yard sales across the U.S. Taking banal landscape paintings and then overlaying his own phrases and lettering onto the work, White creates new art from old—and in many cases—unremarkable paintings. White’s work is lately getting placed in not only galleries, but fine art museums as well. And if you get the chance, definitely make a trip to see the work with your own two eyes.

And if you have never seen White’s glossy 3-D paintings, perhaps you’re familiar with another one of his works…the album cover for Lambchop ’s 2000 Nixon LP, featuring White’s painting of the same name.

And just for old time’s sake, how about a little Big Time for good measure? Long live Peter Gabriel:


03 septembre 2008

Preview: Spin: the art of cover design, Arts Gallery, London

Reviewed by Charlotte Cripps, Tuesday, 2 September 2008


The designers who struck up the brand

The designer Peter Saville, whose Factory Records artwork included Joy Division and New Order album covers, knows more about the art of record sleeve design than most. Along with Dylan Jones, the editor of British GQ, and Faris Rotter, the lead singer of The Horrors, who recently created album artwork for The Charlatans, Saville has chosen some of the best LP cover art of the past 40 years for this show of work by former students of University of the Arts London. (...)

(...) he says. "I have never been given a brief by a record company, except in 1986, when I was told to bring Peter Gabriel forward as a personality. He was the type to hide behind a tree for a photo shoot, as he didn't want to be a pop star" (...)

29 mai 2008

Manu Katché, si vous étiez...

Son dernier opus, Playground, a fait un tabac. Reconnu par les plus grands, de Sting à Souchon, ce batteur exceptionnel part en tournée tout l'été.

Si vous étiez... un livre de chevet

Le Joueur d'échecs, de Stefan Zweig. Un auteur magnifique et un sujet universel : le dépassement de soi.

Un tableau

N'importe quel Basquiat ! A travers son oeuvre tourmentée, je retrouve un peu la sensibilité et les émotions de Miles Davis. Je me demande si Basquiat n'écoutait pas ses disques lorsqu'il peignait. Allez savoir ! Ils restent tous deux d'une incroyable modernité.

Un pays

Asiatique ! Je suis un fan du Japon, du Vietnam et du Laos. J'aime tout de cette culture : la nourriture, le sens de l'esthétique, le perfectionnisme. Et je sais de quoi je parle, car je travaille depuis plus de vingt ans avec des Japonais ! Ils sont pros et dotés d'une écoute des autres exceptionnelle.

Le seul objet sur une île déserte

Un couteau suisse, pour survivre. Le côté « perdu au milieu de l'océan » ne me fait pas du tout rêver. Je n'aime ni la mer ni le bateau.

Un paysage qui suscite le rêve

La montagne. C'est vraiment mon élément. J'adore marcher, skier, dormir dans un refuge et contempler les sommets. Cela m'apaise énormément. Ces paysages me font cent fois plus voyager que les océans. A la montagne, il y a d'ailleurs une qualité sonore incroyable, un son ouaté unique.

Un mot qui serve de devise

Ténacité. C'est l'un de mes traits de caractère. Je suis non pas têtu, ni borné, mais pugnace. J'aime aller au bout d'un projet... le seul moyen de savoir si l'on s'est trompé !

Un animal

Un félin. Je préfère m'imaginer en jaguar plutôt qu'en serpent. C'est un animal racé, rapide et combatif ! Quand il a repéré sa proie, il ne la lâche pas.

Un personnage historique

Victor Schoelcher. Il contribua à faire adopter le décret sur l'abolition de l'esclavage.

Une saison

L'automne. Sa lumière est plus dorée, plus subtile que celle de l'été.

Une rencontre que vous espérez

Je n'espère rien. Je suis assez fataliste. Néanmoins, je serais ravi de discuter avec Patrick Modiano ou Nelson Mandela.

Un musicien ou un chanteur

Miles Davis. C'est mon maître et une référence absolue. La puissance de sa musique est universelle. J'ai eu la chance de le rencontrer une fois, à la fin de sa vie, aux Etats-Unis, à l'occasion d'un concert pour Amnesty International. A l'époque, je jouais avec Peter Gabriel. Cela reste l'un de mes plus beaux souvenirs. J'espère que l'on se retrouvera dans l'au-delà et que l'on fera un boeuf !

Propos recueillis par Sylvie Wolff, l'Express


19 septembre 2007

Best of two worlds

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures" said Henry Ward Beecher.

Art resides in every human being; whether its nature or day to day happenings we all create art in our minds but it's very few who are able to paint through their mind's eye.

"I have been painting for 17 years now, what started as a hobby has become my profession," beamed Alex Stewart.

Alex Stewart, a British born artist is show casing his 7th art exhibition in our little island, while speaking to him , he shared his passion and history with us.

"My paintings are based on the spiritual aspect of what I see, like the Fool (the jester in a king's court), I see the jester as an innocent thinking figure that appears in my paintings. Like the fool there are also angels clothed in saris and flying three wheelers which have their own significance."

Speaking about the exhibition at the Barefoot Gallery, Alex added that it took him 6-9 months to prepare 31 paintings for the show. The pictures for the exhibition were painted in two basic themes; lovers and separation and used only water colours as his mode of painting for this exhibition. While some paintings explore people going through their day to day lives some pictures portray the theme and some paintings represent people's dreams.

"I staged my first exhibition in 1995 and since then have staged around 7 shows. The last exhibition I held in Sri Lanka was themed on the tsunami and I also have staged exhibitions in the United Kingdom, India and America," he added.

Speaking on how he gets his ideas on canvas ,Alex said, "Though I start off with an exact idea, something happens in between and then I end up painting something very different from what I started."

He also added that when observing his environment, he makes note of things he wants to paint in a book and then later recalls the situation which will in the end trigger a feeling which he would base his painting on.

Unlike most artists, Alex is lucky having enough to experience in the best of two worlds, "being an artist and a DJ gives me the opportunity to live and experience the world of solitude and also enjoy the world of society, so I live life in two extremes," he added smilingly.

Alex in presently DJs at popular nightclubs in the U.K once a month and was also the guest DJ when WOMAD performed in Sri Lanka.

"After I finish a painting, I spend time with it and then exhibit it. There are times where I have understood the painting only after looking at it 6 months after I finished painting it. I try not to sell any painting that I have not completed or spent time with, since each painting is very important to me," he voiced. Alex said that painting for him is like writing; a method he uses to put down his thoughts into canvas and that color is very important as it incorporates with the paintings. "I'm very happy with this exhibition because it has changed me inwardly,"

The exhibition will commence on the 14th of September and it will go on till 30th at the Barefoot Gallery.

By Sherwani Synon