Dans l’optique de soumettre un dossier avec un nombre limité d’œuvres (à des galeries ou pour des concours), j’effectue un sondage pour savoir quelles œuvres sont les plus appréciées. Chaque pages du sondage affiche un certain nombre d’images, vous votez pour celles que vous aimez particulièrement (toutes, certaines ou aucune).
Needing to submit a portfolio of my work to galleries and selection committees, I am conducting a survey to assess which works are most appreciated. You can vote for none, several or all works.
In an attempt to show how paintings come to life and the different layers required, I have decided to start documenting the process of painting. I am not confident that this is a good thing to do, and I am not happy with the visual result nor with the method. I’ll continue investigating, but you comments and support might help in that task.
I have to say, now that I look at the video and think about it, I wonder if it’s not better just to show the end result; I feel like a little a bit of the magic has vanished (if there was any).
Yellow Frog by Tany, 2012, Oil on canvas, 80x100cm
I have a feeling that 2012 is going to be one to remember. I’ve took advantage of the long winter break to increase my painting sessions and as a result I have already completed three new canvas.
I’m really about two of them, not by the result but by the work accomplished and the process that I have been going through between these two and the previous bunch. I finally feel that I am on some tracks… that I might end up going somewhere.
"On va tous creuver Martin" by Tany (We are all going to die King)
I have been publishing a few unfinished business/works on this blog and to put the balance back to a fair point, I’m posting the latest additions in my artwork portfolio (which are not unfinished) :
Now that I look at these I realise it’s only animals, and wild ones. You’ll think it’s obvious but I hadn’t noticed until now…
I wanted to who this one out. I’ll say it’s finished. I’ve poured what I had in it and I don’t see what more I can tell on that story.
This works comes from the intention of working on some large scale painting. So I took a few cardboards I had, stuck them together, hung them and I started painting. The work was based on to things, a letter written from the father (on the left) about fatherhood and his daughter. And on two photographs I had. Initially I wanted to do a triptych so I drew the father separately, but then I just glued it on the large canvas. I wrote some of the words and then drew the child.
The harts in the middle, painted with the same ink as the words that describe the father’s feeling, represents the blood they share, the physical bond that exists between there cells, as well as the love supposedly in that ugly looking device that is a human heart.
The work is very large. I’m not really happy with it as I had to work with low resolution photographs ; that didn’t help me much. But anyway, working on a large scale canvas is very pleasing and it feels more physical, therefore the links between the painter, the material and the subject gets all very much tightened altogether.
That’s an interesting story. I can’t say this one is unfinished, I can say I am not satisfied with the result. I look at the picture – or rather pictures – I have taken of it and none of them looks right.
When I look at the painting though, it’s seems normal, as if the proportions where right. But looking at the picture, it’s hard for me to still believe this painting is done.
I’m thinking may be as some people are photogenic and others not, it’s possible it’s the same thing for paintings. Ok you are going to argue that paintings are in 2Dso it’s probably impossible.
Anyway I don’t know what to do, may be in a few years, It’ll come to me but for now I am just puzzled.
I’ve had so much trouble painting this one that I just need time to forget it and come back to it when it’ll feel right. It’s an outside portrait, in front of a church in the XXe arondissement of Paris. First I want to try a very raw background, hens the oily background colour very industrial and rough.
I’ve had a lot of difficulties painting the eyes, the look of the Jesus looking to the skies. The angle was peculiar and the model himself has an unusual eye feature. Therefore I haven’t found the right balance yet. I’ll get back to it sooner or later.
I’ve entitled it boxing jesus because for some reason it looks like his left eye is swollen.
From now on I have decided I would show a little bit of the making off of my paintings featured on tany.fr ; this includes showing some draft works or paintings witch I’m not satisfied with but that I don’t know what do do with.
Here’s the first one of the series, a few paintings will show up in the following weeks due to the many works unfinished I have. This one is a portrait of a woman asleep. Originally the woman was lying in bed and the background (squares) has been made up. I’m not satisfied with it because it looks too much like a cartoon and it’s definitely too naive. Ideas are welcomed.
Un nouveau site dédié aux oeuvres de Tany vient d’être mis en ligne.
tany.fr est le portfolio en ligne et l’on peut y voir a l’occasion une majorité de nouvelles oeuvre peintes en 2010 et 2011.
Le peintures en cours de réalisation où non retenue pour le portfolio seront exposées dans dejavu-production.com dans quelques jours… à suivre donc.
It is nice to feel more and more how, as time goes by, things start to grow up and become “something”, evolve into interesting and mind feeding parts of your environment.
Here is the latest website displaying Isabelle Terestchenko’s work isabelleterestchenko.net. It’s nice to see the evolution of her work, I really like her use of stencils and the mix of techniques really works well. I think her personality really transpires through her art.
From time to time you take a minute to look back and contemplate the path you have taken. Usualy you don’t take the time, or you don’t care. So what do you do?
Well you comr across something that makes it obvious.
For instance take an artist, Isabelle Terestchenko, in 2008 and come back a year later. Today! Bam. And what do you see? Progress, talent, power. All what you like in Art. I am thrilled by the new artworks that she just sent us, and so that I am sharing with you know. Three other works coming up from her new series.
Work by Isabelle Terestchenko Mixed media, 2009, Spain 1st of a series of 4 images
This painting was one of the key works of Tany’s last exhibition. It relates to a famous add for a cleaning powder where the characters were wearing t-shirts as white as the background giving a “invisible-man” effect; it also relates to a hoodie by Tany; and to the spirit of dejavu-production: youth, playing and freshness.
Tattoos and Ice-cream. This painting by Tany has tight links to previous works such as Mugabe The Great Dic***** or My Mind Is ******. This work refers to the Ice Cream brand and incorporates some recurring themes such as the Financial Times newspaper, tattoo and lyrics.
This is a short video made by Tany on his exhibition currently held at the Alliance Francaise of Johannesburg – South Africa, until the 6th of December 2008. Following a successful launch on the 27th of November, the 16 oil paintings can be purchased (the ones still available) by contacting Tany. Price list available on request.
Opening on Thursday 27 November at 6pm (The exhibition continues until Saturday 6 December.)
Colours ! Red, Gold and Green. Fed from the start with fresh pop culture, witty advertisement and subversive entertainment Tany has created a world of his own ; where paint and stories come together in a string of unexpected and characteristic portraits. Hip, hop. Come and see this family album of people chanting cacophonously in his imagination.
So who’s He ? The big boy Tany : a Frenchman born in the 80’s and educated in Paris. It’s not what you think ; the multicultural character travels around the globe – hop, hop – to better understand his inner mechanisms. On his journey, stimulated by powerful foreign aesthetics he started creating relentlessly. That is when Tany’s world was created using reminiscences of Damian Hurst, Klimt, Alechinsky, Zeng Fanzhi or Bacon’s works. Soon Tany became father to the dejavu-production.com project, his virtual gallery of multi-disciplinary artistic creations. Welcome to Tany’s land. This November, The Alliance Française will be exhibiting his work for the first time in Johannesburg. Ta-Da !
At the edge of his reasoning, things come deconstructed and meaningless. They float around in his mind and it is unclear to him how they should fit back in. So he mingles, he mixes and what comes out is what you will witness… and most importantly what you will make of it.
Venue
Gallery Gerard Sekoto
Alliance Française of Johannesburg
17 Lower Park Drive corner Kerry Road
Parkview – opposite Zoo Lake
Gallery hours
Monday – Thursday : 9 am – 8 pm
Friday : 9 am – 6 pm
Saturday : 9 am – 1 pm
For more information
Contact Pauline
culture.jhb@alliance.org.za
011 646 1169
Tany deisgn a poster to promote the Imagine Science Film Festival of New York. The Festival will be held Oct 16-25th 2008. for more information look up imaginesciencefilms.com
Imagine Science Film Festival Poster, by Tany,
August 2008, Digital Media
Dans l’optique de soumettre un dossier avec un nombre limité d’œuvres (à des galeries ou pour des concours), j’effectue un sondage pour savoir quelles œuvres sont les plus appréciées. Chaque pages du sondage affiche un certain nombre d’images, vous votez pour celles que vous aimez particulièrement (toutes, certaines ou aucune).
Needing to submit a portfolio of my work to galleries and selection committees, I am conducting a survey to assess which works are most appreciated. You can vote for none, several or all works.
