Video: Celebrities from all sorts of things. Unusual installation portraits by Bernard Pras
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Believe that the artist is named Bernard Pras, from a pile of various things creates installations in the form of portraits of celebrities, not everyone is capable. Especially if he looks at this pile of things from a different point of view. More precisely, from the wrong point of view, because these portraits-installations, among other things, are optical illusions, and add up to a meaningful image only when they are looked at from the right angle. Creative puzzles, and Bernard Pras creates them expertly. Unlike other artists who create installations from a pile of various objects, Bernard Pras takes a much more detailed approach to the process. For example, he always thinks over in advance what kind of objects will make up this very pile. After all, they need to be not random, but somehow connected with the character they will portray. And even better, they corresponded to his image, character, habits or preferences, important milestones in his life or creative path.
Alas, the artist does not always succeed in observing this rule, and therefore the Statue of Liberty in his performance consists of car numbers and other spare parts, Louis XIV - from a mountain of sweets and toilet paper, and Einstein - from household appliances, kitchen utensils, dishes and some other then rubbish. Although, if we talk about the portraits of Van Gogh, Marilyn Monroe, Bruce Lee, Jimi Hendrix, Mahatma Gandhi and other celebrities, Bernard Pras did his best by constructing them from significant objects with an independent semantic load.
You can see the entire gallery of unusual portraits, and wonder what people see when looking at them from the wrong angle, on the Bernard Pras website.
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