DP ART EXHIBITION - Robin Eymard

Robin Eymard

Architecture from under

Medium: Various sketches and drawings of photos with pencil and acrylic paint on canvas

This piece was inspired by an artist I came across during my time visiting another school. His work was based on cities viewed from below. The idea that came out of this was to create buildings stacking over each other creating shapes looking forms when observed from under. In this piece I was trying to express the feeling someone would experience when looking up in a city like New -York for example. The impression of being overwhelmed by enormous buildings.

A city from afar

Medium: Various sketches and drawings of photos with pencil and acrylic paint on canvas

For this piece I took example of an artist whose work was based on different angles a picture can be looked at. My idea was to take example of a prior piece I had created. Buildings reduced to shapes when looked from under, the idea was to create a set of 2 pieces with the same shapes but looked from a different angle and with different colors. With the intention to trick the eye by making it think you are looking at 2 different works but in reality are the same, just viewed from different points.

A different angle

Medium: Various drawings of photos with pencil and acrylic paint on canvas

As mentioned in the previous one, this is the second part of the project. When looked upon for a few seconds you can discern the similarities between the first one pretty easily, but at first glance the colors and the different angle can trick the eye making it think that this is a different piece. The biggest difference would be the darker colors used as they make it harder to see the similarities.

built-in bridge

Medium: Sketch on paper plus acrylic paint and computer program.

This piece represents 2 bridges colliding over each other, its intention is to create the 2 parts of my life. I wanted to create a scene showing the previous paths I was walking on fusing with the second paths I chose when coming to Germany, as this experience was at first quite traumatizing for me I decided to use darker tones to express this feeling.

old souvenirs

Medium: Sketches on paper plus acrylic paint and computer program.

I created this piece to represent 4 places really important to me back in my home country. I first sketched all the buildings over each other to make it look like they were superposed, I used dark colors and … the paper around to give a more colliding look. My objective with this piece was to represent in a drawing all of these buildings as if they were one, representing them as such was not something I thought of but looking at another classmate’s inspired me to try it myself.

Geometric architecture

Medium: Various drawings of photos with pencil and acrylic paint on canvas

This painting represents The Arc De Triomphe and the Louvre which are both really important buildings in my country, being both religious monuments and historical. The painting was centered around the arcs and triangles shaped forms that can be seen all around both the buildings. These 2 monuments were the first historically important buildings I have seen and understood in my life, making them important souvenirs which I wanted to represent in a painting.

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Medium: Various drawings of photos with pencil and acrylic paint on canvas

This painting is made of many buildings I took pictures of during one of my vacations in France. The background, made completely of blue, represents the light and always warm temperature in this particular place. This painting was made by collaging the different pictures I had then copying everything onto a bigger canvas. The main point in this painting was to represent all the buildings creating some kind of enormous pack with only a clear blue sky when looking up.

Curatorial Rationale

My work has moved through several different ideas, but they all relate to the themes of shapes and buildings. I have tried to explore these themes in many different aspects, by looking at types of building, ways in which shapes are put together to create buildings or even photographs of destroyed buildings. My work was mostly inspired by an artist called Morten Andersen. His work is overly different from mine, but the ways he creates shapes and forms have inspired me to work in the direction I have now chosen. I have also found inspiration through souvenirs and personal experiences; different places and buildings have impacted my development and my life as well as my choices. My work contains textural elements, but also a few sculptural ideas which I have used to adapt my way of thinking. In addition to this, I have also experimented with different approaches in order to adapt the mediums I use to my intended purposes. Such actions include purposely destroying parts of a painting or sketch and using unusual painting methods

and stencils to create a genuinely desired end result.

I began Art by working on movements and photographs but it was then after observing the work of Morten Andersen.I used photographs as the basis of my works, but the central theme has shapes and buildings. Initially I had usedMorten Anderson’s work as references in order to establish a basis for my pieces; of his works and implementing photographs and sketches of my own. Therefore, adapting it to my needs.

I found myself being inspired by different artists and classmates for the majority of my pieces. However, notably, all of them first started with the basic influence and interest in Andersen’s works. The theme he explores is Graffuturism. By creating urban paintings, he gave me the impression of many buildings colliding over each other, reduced to shapes and lines at most. I wanted to recreate his type of painting by introducing more representative shapes, giving them a more architectural-like look but still ensuring that the basic shapes remain apparent. I developed my pieces with the potential viewer in mind. My intention was to make the audience reflect and analyse the pieces themselves. unclear ideas and one of my main intentions. Most of my pieces are introduced with light and warm colors, even if some specific pieces incorporate colder tones. Making the viewer wonder about the overall meaning of the colors in the paintings is the main point I chose these specific colors for. Most of my work is made on canvas, it is in my opinion the most relevant way to show my paintings and intention to the viewer, as a canvas is something physical and generally of bigger size, giving me more space and possibilities to express my ideas.

As my works are mainly based on building and the different shapes and angles they can be looked upon, I tried to represent them all in a similar way, the shapes, colors and viewpoints are all connected to each other but still different as the base starting point changed. Out of the bigger pieces, the 2 smaller representations made in darker tones mostly represent important parts of my life. Making them in my opinion the most important pieces in the exhibition. Compared to the other pieces made with lighter colors, these two represent parts of my life which I’ve struggled going through, keeping them in the theme of buildings and shapes. I decided to use houses and monuments to create them. This exhibition is the end result of my work over the past two years. Most of the intentions and preferred experiences are presented here in these seven pieces.

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