Sebastien Preschoux [Interview]

1. Introduce your self in a couple of phrases.

My identify is Sebastien Preschoux, I’m 35 years outdated. I’m a self-taught artist/designer. I design and have not too long ago began creating all my ink drawings based mostly on spirographs, thread tensions and likewise utilizing acrylic paints.

2. Our Society is utilizing increasingly new know-how, and all the pieces you do is along with your palms, why is that this tough?

There are a lot of causes for that. We live in a period the place all the pieces’s quick, produced massively and extensively used. Much less and fewer individuals are conscious of what’s going on round them.
With a pc you can also make all the pieces fast-paced and really flattering, everybody can faux it, so whats the purpose ? Nothing private, nothing distinctive.

These days, the brand new technology disposes of photos as a industrial rapidity and they don’t seem to be asking themselves about the place this stuff are coming from. Is it handmade or is it an digital work?
When they’re confronted with creating handmade work, they understand the labor and time it takes. The result’s far more necessary than a printed work that’s, simply reproduced.
For my part, artwork is sensible whether it is the results of the human hand.

3. Your installations are sometimes made pure environments. What about these circumstances encourage you?

The primary time I made a thread set up it was within the forest in Argentina. It is extremely nice and approachable to work in pure environments : nobody disturbs you, you are taking the time you need, the time you want. Moreover bushes are a really strong building on which you’ll be able to work with out destroying something. I prefer to carry these coloured threads with a geometrical local weather on a atmosphere that’s completely not graphic to start with.

4. They appear to be big spiderwebs…

Sure, its very arachnida. I known as one among my set up « cocoon » as a result of I really feel like I’m turning into a extremely small spider once I spin.

5. You labored with Wu Yue Nyno for an exhibition in Berlin not too long ago. Was it a brand new and a great expertise for you ?

Sure I had by no means finished that earlier than. Nyno was one of many solely individuals with whom I aspired to do a collaboration. He invited me to Berlin and we put collectively this undertaking. The article was to inform a narrative, to create a hyperlink between his drawings and my installations. It was very gratifying to work with him.

6. Might you discuss a bit bit about your subsequent undertaking ?

The one factor I can inform proper now’s that its going to be an set up in city atmosphere, in Paris, this summer season 2010…

Go to his website for extra views on his artwork www.m-vs-m.com