Tany, following up on his collaborations with Minibar, Imaginal Disc, Ali, Olivier Gounot and Violaine Prunet, will experiment collaborating with the public.
The idea is to create one collaborative piece of work. The input from spectators will be collected at several stages of conception of a painting via this website and your comments.
First step:
The public – you – provides input for a painting, under any form: a picture, a song, a name, a word, a story, a concept, a colour…
Second step:
Tany will use this input to start working on a painting. At an early stage (painting started but incomplete) the draft will submitted for review by the public.
Third Step:
The public will comment and provide additional suggestions and ideas.
Fourth Step:
Tany will finalize the painting.
This is the first step. Please provide your suggestions by commenting this post.
Input already gathered: Japanese kanji for “silent execution” ; irony ; cycle within the painting.
Tany’s draft of his first south African Painting. It is his second painting using oil colors… slowly getting there.
The interpretation of the composition is up to you.
Here is the first painting by Tany, using oil instead of acrylic paint. It was made for Alexis in Paris by the artist and is 50cm by 50cm.
In the background, on a white board is written:
Life is a Sexually Transmitted disease.
A Scientist is holding a condom in his right hand. His head is printed on a copy of the FT. In front of him, cut out from FT headlines, is pined down the sentence:
Underneath the “End” word taken from the original print is written “human rights”.
Following an unusual request, Tany has designed a folding screen with pictures of a cow and of flowers. It is only a first try but the result is promising, and was inspired by cubism. The main difficulty was to print the high quality images and to fix them to the frame of the folding screen (wood + foam).
Now that summer is gone for good in the Great Britain, Tany got back to his brushes. This painting was initially a commissioned work from one of his friends - Alexis - in New York. Alexis request was to follow the path of Science and Art, so Tany painted this human heart, adding some religious visual symbols and tattooing on top of it the mysterious (?) decree: “… My Heart is ****”. Unfortunately the result is not what was expected, so the canvas has been classified as a draft work.
Tany recently finished an exercise based on a picture of M. Heaney and him on his scooter in North London. The exercise was to paint in less than an hour a portrait of his friend. In the background are written with a black pencil variations of the riddle:
See a penny pick it up,
All day long have good luck.
If you give it to a Friend,
Then your luck will never end.
Tany also experimented paint droppings and “coulures”, and used the DejaVu symbol of the Japanese marine’s flag.
Following a request from his father to refurbish his bathroom, Tany has been studying the Art in Hen. Here are three studies of hen, the animal remains the same in each painting, but the frame around it varies. You will recognise Alechinsky’s influence here.
Inspired by the African continent and its primal art, here are two pencil on paper works. Tany has been practising his drawing technique during these last weeks, by drawing and sketching all he could find. The improvement looks considerable yet there is still much more to do.
Tany released the first prototype of DejaVu kicks today. Using a pair of leather sneakers he bought in a retail store, he painted them with light and dark blue, and you will recognise the golden logo of DejaVu-Production.com. This first shoe prototype is not for sale but more are to come as the artist thinks there is definitely room for improvement. More Dejavu Production Clothes & Accessories here…
Violaine, inspired by the current pregnancy of her godmother, has just finished two small size sculptures. One is a pregnant woman kneeling, and the second one is a standing woman breastfeeding a new born.
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