{"id":2503,"date":"2012-04-18T13:46:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T13:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2012-04-18T13:46:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T13:46:15","slug":"sandow-birk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/2012\/04\/18\/sandow-birk\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandow Birk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Certains l&rsquo;auront remarqu\u00e9, ce blog ne conna\u00eet pas une activit\u00e9 fr\u00e9n\u00e9tique ces temps-ci. Il faut dire que l&rsquo;on m&rsquo;a confi\u00e9 l&rsquo;ambitieux projet d&rsquo;un livre consacr\u00e9 \u00e0 la fin du monde, et celui-ci m&rsquo;occupe \u00e0 temps complet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandowbirk.com\/paintings\/recent-works\/2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2513\" title=\"37_capitol-3\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/37_capitol-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/37_capitol-3.png 640w, https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/37_capitol-3-300x189.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Je d\u00e9couvre <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandowbirk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sandow Birk<\/a>, peintre californien qui a commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 produire \u00e0 la fin des ann\u00e9es 1980, qui s&rsquo;int\u00e9resse beaucoup \u00e0 la repr\u00e9sentation de catastrophes et, notamment, des guerres contemporaines, qu&rsquo;il repr\u00e9sente en recourant au langage visuel d&rsquo;artistes anciens, comme Jacques Callot, dont il s&rsquo;inspire pour la s\u00e9rie <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandowbirk.com\/paintings\/the-depravities-of-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Depravities of war<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandowbirk.com\/paintings\/the-depravities-of-war\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2514\" title=\"5_invasion\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/5_invasion.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/5_invasion.png 640w, https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/5_invasion-300x152.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Certains de ses travaux \u00e9voquent des \u00e9v\u00e8nements absolument fictifs, comme <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandowbirk.com\/paintings\/the-great-war-of-the-californias\/\">la guerre qu&rsquo;il imagine entre San Francisco et Los Angeles<\/a> et qu&rsquo;il repr\u00e9sente \u00e0 la mani\u00e8re des peintres d&rsquo;histoire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandowbirk.com\/paintings\/the-great-war-of-the-californias\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2512\" title=\"24_birkscan7\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/24_birkscan7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/24_birkscan7.jpg 640w, https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/24_birkscan7-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/24_birkscan7-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Avec <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandowbirk.com\/paintings\/recent-works\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Qu&rsquo;ran<\/a><\/em>, il illustre et retranscrit \u00e0 la gouache les 114 sourates du Coran, en s&rsquo;inspirant des enluminures persanes et arabes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandowbirk.com\/paintings\/recent-works\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2515\" title=\"15_22a\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/15_22a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/15_22a.jpg 640w, https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/15_22a-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandowbirk.com\/paintings\/recent-works\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2516\" title=\"15_sura-21-c\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/15_sura-21-c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/15_sura-21-c.jpg 640w, https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/15_sura-21-c-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sa s\u00e9rie <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandowbirk.com\/paintings\/the-rise-and-fall-of-los-angeles\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles<\/a><\/em> montre, en cinq tableaux, l&rsquo;\u00e9volution du paysage am\u00e9ricain : pr\u00e9histoire, \u00e2ge pastoral, urbanisation, et enfin, destruction et d\u00e9solation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandowbirk.com\/paintings\/the-rise-and-fall-of-los-angeles\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2517\" title=\"34_birkcourseofempireb69b\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/34_birkcourseofempireb69b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/34_birkcourseofempireb69b.jpg 640w, https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/34_birkcourseofempireb69b-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandowbirk.com\/paintings\/the-rise-and-fall-of-los-angeles\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2518\" title=\"34_birkcourseofempireb69a\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/34_birkcourseofempireb69a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/34_birkcourseofempireb69a.jpg 640w, https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/34_birkcourseofempireb69a-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ces deux tableaux sont en fait une r\u00e9f\u00e9rence \u00e0 la c\u00e9l\u00e8bre s\u00e9rie\u00a0<em>The course of Empire<\/em> (1833-1836) de l&rsquo;am\u00e9ricain Thomas Cole, qui racontait la marche du monde, depuis ses origines sauvages jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 l&rsquo;apr\u00e8s civilisation :<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Course_of_Empire\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2507 \" title=\"cole_course\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/cole_course.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/cole_course.jpg 640w, https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/files\/2012\/04\/cole_course-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Je trouve le travail de <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandowbirk.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sandow Birk<\/a>\u00a0extr\u00eamement\u00a0int\u00e9ressant, car s&rsquo;il est loin d&rsquo;\u00eatre le premier \u00e0 s&rsquo;\u00eatre amus\u00e9 avec le principe du \u00ab\u00a0mash-up\u00a0\u00bb, il me semble qu&rsquo;il le fait avec un grand s\u00e9rieux et un authentique amour pour les\u00a0\u0153uvres qu&rsquo;il pastiche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certains l&rsquo;auront remarqu\u00e9, ce blog ne conna\u00eet pas une activit\u00e9 fr\u00e9n\u00e9tique ces temps-ci. Il faut dire que l&rsquo;on m&rsquo;a confi\u00e9 l&rsquo;ambitieux projet d&rsquo;un livre consacr\u00e9 \u00e0 la fin du monde, et celui-ci m&rsquo;occupe \u00e0 temps complet. Je d\u00e9couvre Sandow Birk, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/2012\/04\/18\/sandow-birk\/\">Continuer la lecture <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyperbate.fr\/finsdumonde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}