Welcome to my blog.
I created this blog with the intention of regularly posting my thoughts and evolving thoughts on my view on ethnofuturism.
By searching on the Interweb one realizes that this name comes from Estonian artists of the 80s 90. This artistic and literary movement aimed to restore and develop local cultures and their future, in a globalized and global world.
For my part, and for the moment only, I tend to consider the subject from a more global point of view, not personally being particularly attached to a local culture. My greatest source of inspiration which is reflected in the choice of my books in general is oriented towards the Asian continent, South Asia, North America as well as Africa.
Another important part of my personal culture is the French and Japanese 90s comics. By that I mean people like Jean Giraud as well as Druillet, Caza, katsushiro otomo, Terada and many other authors.
So why does ethnofuturism interest me?
During the 2020 confinement I had the opportunity and the time to ask myself the question of what interests me in art and how following my own concept would help me develop my creativity and maybe even open the door to collaborations with other artists or quite simply people and / or specialists of different activities and interested in the concept.
By now I have already produced a number of pictures and paintings based on this idea, this concept. I have come to realize through my research how much this is a virgin and exciting field to explore.
When I started to draw and paint I obviously looked for references through my books. For example, it occurred to me that almost systematically robots, an eminently powerful symbol of our future, are always white or black or one-colored but also smooth, metallic or plastic. My first reaction was to tell myself that obviously for a Designer it seems more obvious to create smooth shapes that can be molded than rough shapes that would not needed or to use textiles that would have a premature aging or using textures that would have no function. This is also valid for our household robots which often have very little roughness and very rarely organic shapes.
On this subject I would like to refer to a short text by Jean Giraud aka Moebius which says this:
(the mediocrity of industrial artefacts has the consequence of creating an increasingly degraded aesthetic landscape, weakening the referential reservoir of the human being, leading to an unconscious distortion of the very concept of beauty and thereby contaminating corollary concepts of goodness and truth.)
I have had this text in my bathroom for years and I read it every day. Beyond its prophetic side, I regularly see the solution, or one of the solutions. to our problems caused by hyper industrialization and the race for efficiency, which in recent years have shown their limits when it comes to the environment.
Beyond the purely aesthetic side our relationship to the world and also based on the emotions that we can project on the objects, the architecture, the clothes which surround us. Its emotions and this culture take source in our past, our childhood and are the basis which serve us to develop a certain conception of humanity, the world and interrelationships.
My bias is to offer an aesthetic of the future that would not be sterile but rather organic and anchored in the diversity of world cultures, so as to counter this smooth and soulless production that makes our homes more and more depressing and ikeaized. .
I have attached my latest work below and hope you enjoy it.
please feel free to leave a comment and hopefully see you soon
thank you for your time and interrest
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