1.1 Icon - Herve Graumann

Herve Graumann (February 26, 1963), is a visual artist and one of the pioneers of digital art in Switzerland. He graduated in 1989 on the Graduate School of Fine Arts in Genève. Beside that he is a traditionally thought in visual arts, his tools that he uses for his art es everything except traditional. This because his work is mainly based on a sudden alternation of perspectives. Which serves him to address the reality and issues related to philosophy of art itself. 

One of his main projects, is making patterns using real every day objects mostly from mass production (see picture).

Which he explains as follows; 

"In this case, the transformative principle of addition, the efficient repetitive gesture of copy and paste, would be within grasp wereit not for the hands-off effect of the fragile engineering of the artist’s complex installations. The three-dimensional ornament, although spread out at our feet, cannot be seen all at once. In contrast to a pattern on a surface, the spatial structure changes with every change in vantage point. Every view of the installation, every static perception reveals new contiguities and therefore new semantic relations and insights. The pattern can be animated with a single gaze although it does not move. The act of seeing is in itself indeed an act."  (http://graumann.net/works/?p=1297)  

The reason why this is inspiring for me, is that he perfectly illustrates that you can make art with almost everything, and it makes me think of what art is. When looking at the picture a loose cd, or a straw at its own isn't per se art, but putting them into a pattern is "apparently" art. My own background is graphic design, and because of that he for me let me see the beauty of patterns and that you can make it with everything.