Video: Face on the map. Cartographic art project by artist Ed Fairburn
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Like a sculptor who looks at a piece of granite and already sees the contours of a future statue, the British artist Ed Fairburn considers geographic and topographic world maps, metro, as well as rail and road communications. From the intricacies of metro and highways, waterways and boundaries of settlements, spots of water bodies, forests and mountain ranges, the trained eye of an experienced maestro snatches out complex shapes that resemble the features of a human face. And the artist starts drawing amazing portraits that are included in the art project Maps series … The process of creating cartographic portraits is at the same time reminiscent of a children's game of "connect the dots" and the work of a sculptor. Ed Fireburn paints over parts of the maps, cutting off everything superfluous from the main thing, as if he was holding a sculptor's knife, and not at all a brush with paint, and not a pencil or a pen with the thinnest core. Connecting these shaded patches together, stringing them on a string, the artist turns ordinary cards into a work of art, decorating them with unusual portraits of people.
A steady hand, many years of experience, an innate sense of purpose and perseverance have largely contributed to the fact that the artist's unusual portraits are distinguished by filigree and detailed drawing of elements. Ed Fireburn puts strokes on the surface of the map, gradually filling the base, the "frame" of the future portrait, sometimes using paints and a brush, sometimes a pencil or ink pen, or even combining several tools at once. So gradually, from the interweaving of rivers, roads, borders and contours of cartographic objects, the faces of people appear, peering into which, one can rightfully say that the whole world is reflected in their eyes.
These portraits were first presented by the author during the Cowbridge Music Festival, which was held as part of the Zambia Project charity event. See more of the Maps series on Ed Fairburn's website.
Recommended:
Buy My Face: the face of an advertising campaign or an advertising campaign on the face?
“Advertising is the engine of trade” - even a schoolchild knows this. But British students Ross Harper and Ed Moyes know that creative advertising is doubly effective! The guys are the authors of the Buy My Face concept, which literally means “Buy my face”. Resourceful "businessmen" decided to lease their faces to advertisers: company logos are applied with paint, which allows the guys to attract more and more new customers every day. They want to spend the money they receive to pay off their debts for their studies: as long as they are good
A giant map of the world created from microcircuits. Installation of World Map by Susan Stockwell
Computers in the modern world are as important a part of our life as light, gas, water and electricity. Moreover, it is so important that even after the “death” of the unit, people are not ready to say goodbye to it forever, preferring to disassemble it into “organs” and then reuse them for other purposes. So, broken hard drives in the hands of craftsmen turn into original sculptures, small details become unusual decorations, and motherboards, wires, coolers and microchips do
Face to Face art project. Three-dimensional portrait of 250 layers of carpet
Young designer Brian Frandsen is very fond of art, creativity and himself. And he loves so much that recently in the art project Face to Face they created a three-dimensional portrait of him … from 250 layers of carpet. This art project was developed by the designer together with the famous carpet manufacturer Ege Carpets
Face to face: intriguing black and white portraits of wild animals
Ted Grant was convinced that when a photographer captures people in color, he photographs their clothes, but when he switches to black and white photography, he captures their soul. The task of the Geneva-based photographer Alex Teuscher was even more difficult: he chose wild animals as models for the series of portraits. Monochrome images made it possible for the artist to present the inhabitants of the zoo to the viewer, as they say, in a new light
Art project by a French artist to modernize the facade of the Strasbourg Museum of Contemporary Art
French conceptual artist Daniel Buren presented his new installation Comme un jeu d'enfant, travaux in situ at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg on June 10 this year, through which the artist decided to modernize the glazed facade of the museum. Admire the master's creation until January 2015