Video: Made in Los Angeles: paintings painted by flies. John Knuth
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Painter John Knuth he himself does not take up a brush and an easel - he entrusts the process of creating his paintings to others. True, these are not his students and not even people at all. Instead of him are engaged in abstract painting … tens or even hundreds of thousands house flies.
Contemporary artists have repeatedly exhibited various insects as heroes of their works. And John Knuth developed a completely opposite approach to this topic. He invites flies to be not objects, but the subjects of their creativity.
In collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles (MOCA), John Knuth has created a series of paintings entitled Made in Los Angeles. We are talking about several abstract canvases without a plot and generally any recognizable objects on them - just a set of shapeless dark spots of miniature size.
The viewer, unfamiliar with the history of the creation of these paintings, will not understand at all what artistic value they represent, but the explanations on the wall of the museum put everything in its place.
The fact is that the paintings from the Made in Los Angeles series were not painted by John Knuth himself, but more than 250 thousand house flies, which the artist attracted to snow-white canvases with the help of sugar and other products that these insects love so much …
And the flies, let's face it, littered the canvases, turning their blank sheets into extraordinary works of art that belong to MOCA.
Made in Los Angeles is one of the pilot projects created as part of the collaboration of contemporary artists with the official video channel MOCA. Viewers of the latter could watch the process of creating tens of thousands of flies for each of the pictures described above in real time via the Internet. It’s probably a curious sight!
But John Knuth himself can now safely call himself the loud title "Lord of the Flies."
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