Video: Colander faces. Cement Bleak art project
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
What do you do with the old colander, which in their time faithfully served in the kitchen, catching dumplings from boiling water and discarding pasta, but today have lost their former usefulness, having turned into trash? Surely you throw it away and buy a new one. And throw it away in vain. Brussels painter of Spanish origin, Isaac Cordal, collects such items. Not just like that, but to make them part of a street art project Cement bleak … The artist carries out a number of certain complex manipulations with the strainers, as a result, turning them into portraits. More precisely, in masks that would have turned out, shove someone's head into a colander. As if playing in papier-mâché, Isaac Cordal makes dents and bulges in the sieve, which in some incomprehensible way fold into a human face. To heighten the effect, the artist passes the light of a street lamp through a sieve, and thus the resulting portrait can be contemplated on the concrete slabs of the pavement.
By the way, the name of the project Cement Bleak is exactly translated as Cold cement. Wholly and entirely street art, portraits from colander are unlikely to be shown in an art gallery or exhibition hall of a major museum. Such amazing works can be admired only on the streets of the city that the author has chosen as his creative springboard. London, Brussels, other European countries … There are many of them.
Find out more about extraordinary projects on the artist's website Isaac Cordal.
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