Video: Through the keyhole: sculptor Joe Fig spies on great artists
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Sculptor from Brooklyn Joe Feig (Joe fig) creates funny and quite believable tiny models of workshops of famous artists - in which there is also a figurine of the creator himself in the process of creating another masterpiece. Not only titans like Henri Matisse, but also our relatively young contemporaries - for example, a native of New York Inka Essenhai.
The cycle of mini-sculptures by Joe Fig has an unpretentious name "In the artist's studio" (Inside the Painter's Studio). For Fig, this is not an attempt to become famous by speculating on the names of the "greats": on the contrary, it is a kind of involvement in the creative process, during which Warhol manages to create another catchy sample of pop art, and Jackson Pollock - a majestic abstract canvas.
Some of the dioramas, notably, are based on Joe Fig's experience of visiting a real studio. He visited an artist or artist with a camera, and then, on the basis of several photographs, painstakingly restored the atmosphere of the studio, thus managing to acquaint the widest circle of spectators with it.
Of course, any work of art on which names are written Roy Lichtenstein or Andy Warhol, will sell well, but for Joe Fig it doesn't matter. Brooklyn's creativity is quite altruistic: he helps the whole world to penetrate behind the impenetrable curtain, on the other side of which geniuses are creating, and with the help of a single tiny statuette.
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