MERDRE! had a very, very, very successful premiere on Monday. We got six or seven curtain calls and a lot of hugs, kisses and thankyous. There will be one more performance in Prague, that is next Monday, 01.06.09 at 18.00, in DAMU, Retizek.
Dramatic black and white pictures from the premiere by Vojta Taraba, colours from the dress rehearsal the day before by Sébastian Viales.
It’s suddenly the end of semester again. Exams, demos and stuff. Today, I present the more successfully stained papers I have made during the spring. Sorry about the wavy backgrounds, we don’t have any real paper for painting.
This is where I started from. It’s a scribble with with the wrong end of the brush because I felt I couldn’t use the right one anymore. I was thinking this was a disaster until I discussed my work with the teacher at the exam. From my semester’s paintings, this is the only one that has any expression, individual approach or interpretation in it. Later, I have been drifting towards the photo realism that I really hate, trying to be a good student and put down the anatomy, shadows and highlights as they are. Ugh.
She turned out a little blue, but otherwise I like it. My first try to approach the use of colours in a sensible way, thinking first and then getting the brush. The classmates said, that there is a certain Scandinavian style or touch in the colouring. Haha.
A drawing, for a change. Nothing special.
And the same lady nude from the next week. Shiny orange!
I know what you are all thinking. Yes, I also think he had a hangover. Really. But it was fun to paint, with the red nose and all. They took this for the semester exhibition.
This guy is actually a third year student, I think. The first-graders somehow pissed off the old lady that was supposed to model and then the teacher made him sit there for 1,5 hours. A short time, hence just the portrait. And he DOES look like an axe murderer in real life, too. No artistic exaggeration. I’m quite proud of myself, having achieved the actual likeness, the distinctive angle of eyes and all.
There’s two that are so bad I don’t post them. I’m not a natural born painter and sometimes don’t have the patience. Oh the patience…
It’s been a long time of nothing really happening. Now something new has come up. “MERDRE” is the second semester Erasmus project that I designed. It will have a premiere next Monday in Retizek at DAMU, performed as a tandem with another group of students performing “Encased”. As all good things, the performance has no entrance fee.
“MERDRE” is a puppet/object piece based on Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry. It is performed in French, but can also be understood by audiences of other languages. I have contributed with the set design, lights and some primitive sound cues. As we didn’t get much support from the school (it is fair to say our tutor was quite inapt), there is a lot of me in the directing also (which I find to be a great experience). Despite all problems the rehearsals are going great and we make a great team of three with Ingrid and Julie. Performance photos coming up next week!
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