Video: Finger drawings. Ben Long's Automotive Experiences
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
By this view painting each of us who accidentally discovered the layer was engaged dust, for example, on your desktop or monitor screen. But a British artist Ben Long achieved perfection in it. His work is so good that some companies specializing in freight transport ask him to create another masterpiece on one of their trucks.
Modern realities (economic, industrial, environmental and transport) lead to the fact that in any modern city it is difficult to find an absolutely clean horizontal or vertical surface - they quickly become covered with a layer of soot. Someone tries not to pay attention to it, and someone uses this dirt for their own purposes, as the artists Allison Cortson, Moose or Ben Long do. Here we will talk about the work of the latter today.
Ben Long differs from his “colleagues” in that he draws not on stationary, immovable objects, but on planes that can move in space. To be precise, this artist makes works of art using the dust and smog deposited on trucks. Moreover, for this he does not use absolutely any additional devices - only his fingers.
For the best effect, Ben Long uses the visual capabilities of the colorful advertisements that are usually pasted over commercial trucks, organically fitting them into the created images.
You will not find Ben Long's solo exhibition anywhere - his works travel all over Europe, and the very first rain stops them from painting to mud. Fortunately, in the UK there is still a huge number of unwashed trucks - the author has where to create his new works.
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