I recently saw, on Instagram, this artist, Marc Giai-Miniet . His sculpture was shown through a film camera. You were moving around his sculptures, you were within them. At the time of watching this you would have fully believe that what you were looking at was real. However, when he presents these sculptures like this you really get a sense of scale.
I am increasingly thinking about the use of security cameras to gain this idea of 'Big Brother" and being constantly watched, and of ten when you don't think that you are. Also, through this media, the sculpture would look deceptively true to what is there.
These pieces make you want to search round them to see what is going on. There seems to be this common distinction within all of these pieces that the top floor is white, clean and pure. The bottom floor is always covered in dirt, grime and rubble. i get a real sense of the notion of class here. At the top are the rich, well read and in there clean room. The people who are at the bottom of the food chain have the really dirty and rubbish room. It is because of this that these models seem quite old to me, as though they are echoing a time when there were stately homes and the workers lived at the bottom. There also seems to be something very religious about these sculptures. In the middle it seems to be like earth. There is the mundane lives that we live. There is colour but nothing brilliant. Here we have order but not perfect structures and cleanliness. Below you, hell, everything is dark, filthy and just somewhere where you wouldn't want to live. However, when you look up at the top, its like heaven. Everything is bright white, perhaps at the moment, because you are not used to it, you cant see the colour. There is order and knowledge shown through the books. Everything just seems to be in perfect balance and that nothing could go wrong.
From looking at this artist, I am interested into looking at something like "what happens beneath the floorboards?" In all of my previous sculptures I have only focused on one level. What would it be like looking at two? The questions are would it even work or would i have to develop my materials to start making things in more precise detail.
GIAI-MINIET, S. 2015. Accueil. [online] Marc-giai-miniet.com. Available at: http://www.marc-giai-miniet.com/ [Accessed 22 October 2014].
I am increasingly thinking about the use of security cameras to gain this idea of 'Big Brother" and being constantly watched, and of ten when you don't think that you are. Also, through this media, the sculpture would look deceptively true to what is there.
These pieces make you want to search round them to see what is going on. There seems to be this common distinction within all of these pieces that the top floor is white, clean and pure. The bottom floor is always covered in dirt, grime and rubble. i get a real sense of the notion of class here. At the top are the rich, well read and in there clean room. The people who are at the bottom of the food chain have the really dirty and rubbish room. It is because of this that these models seem quite old to me, as though they are echoing a time when there were stately homes and the workers lived at the bottom. There also seems to be something very religious about these sculptures. In the middle it seems to be like earth. There is the mundane lives that we live. There is colour but nothing brilliant. Here we have order but not perfect structures and cleanliness. Below you, hell, everything is dark, filthy and just somewhere where you wouldn't want to live. However, when you look up at the top, its like heaven. Everything is bright white, perhaps at the moment, because you are not used to it, you cant see the colour. There is order and knowledge shown through the books. Everything just seems to be in perfect balance and that nothing could go wrong.
From looking at this artist, I am interested into looking at something like "what happens beneath the floorboards?" In all of my previous sculptures I have only focused on one level. What would it be like looking at two? The questions are would it even work or would i have to develop my materials to start making things in more precise detail.
GIAI-MINIET, S. 2015. Accueil. [online] Marc-giai-miniet.com. Available at: http://www.marc-giai-miniet.com/ [Accessed 22 October 2014].