MetaHism - Patrick Laumond

Patrick Laumond is a French artist who lives and works in Paris.

The Metahism is an artistic movement that expresses and embodies the human mind as a meta-paradigm. 

This Art of the thought, connects a global vision of the visible and invisible events simultaneously. 

META, because expressing the Whole, 

SM as the concept and universal suffix, which we find in all the movements and 

H, eight letter of the alphabet, (letter of the infinity, ∞, lemniscate), separating and unifying.

Laumond’s body of work presents a paradigm, a sustained meditation on life and death, on plurality, certainty in uncertainty, balance in unbalance, tensions in space and time, objectivity in subjectivity…

Dual Pressure - (Central Effect Of Rotation)

“My search is about how to express a model of the whole universe in a comprehensive body of work.

I explored the notion of the void, creating works that generate a multidimensional space 

and seem to destabilize our assumptions about the world 

and express dualities such as reality and illusion, solidity and intangibility, certainty and uncertainty… 

How to shape questioning, doubts, assumptions and human condition?

In this conceptualization it appears I can express any form of representation or thoughts in a paradigm of unity.”

L-45 (Subduction)

At the beginning, this “body of work” started with a stain, a deep surface of monochrome, intensively worked and designed

A splash represents the Big Bang.

The birth of white works represent infinity, eternity and the “all possible”.

These white works allowed him to give all possible shapes, volumes, sizes, identities, like words in a phrase, or symbols in a pictograph system.

He began to create his own language.

He segmented the work in volumes.Some are with stain and others all white.

Linked by a grey line divides and unifies the space.

Here comes his language of a paradigm.

This representation inhabits a spatial frame and the volumes are multiplied under different forms and sizes.

The work entails accumulation, segmentation, expansion or combining all volumes together.

Vice-Versa _ (Archetype)

MetaHism Mausoleum

This body of work becomes then his representation of a Universal World, 

a representation of the symbols for the “all possible”.

In each of his projects we can find the idea of duality. 

Things can happen or not, there is a possible choice and hope is in each human being that can change the whole scheme.

The works also include in their spatial representation a starting point (volume with stain), a middle point (main story) and any possible end (white volumes)......

Equilibrium

"He offers a unique vision of a paradigm; 

a representation of what he considers as a vision of Universality, 

he proposes a different kind of knowing, understanding and showing the world, 

using intuition as an access to reality."

Graft (Archetype)

Infinity - (Archetype)

Each series of projects entails a similarity in term of language,though specific in meaning and each and every one represents a special symbolic aspect of the subject he chooses to develop.

At the core of each project, 

we can trace the idea of apparent duality and of its possible extension:

emotion and reason, compassion and wisdom, realism and idealism…

The Big Jackstraws Of The Thought

The Carrying (Systema)

Laumond’s vision of the world is a holographic perception,

which means that “the part and the whole are always interconnected. 

One finds the whole in the part and the part in the whole, and the whole is always larger than the sum of the parts”.

His scope is far broader than it can appear at first sight.

He doesn’t stand apart from the subject, whether he describes a philosophical concept, or a religious one, or a scientific one, he always feels included in it rather than being an external observer, and he immerses himself deeply in it and is represented in the work as a part of it.

        The Origin Of The Universe                            The Counterweight Of The Gravity

L28 P (Extension)

Finally,  It's a great honor for us having a chance to have an interview with Patrick Laumond, here is it.

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Claudio Parentela

Born in Catanzaro(1962-Italy)

He is an illustrator, painter, photographer, mail artist, cartoonist, collagist, journalist freelance....

We're happy to have an interview with Claudio Parentela, here it is,

"My artwork represents all of me 

– my natural madness, my dreams. 

my love for the world of fashion and all my 10,000 knots." 

       

 

         

        

" My life drives me to create. 

It is wonderful to know that everyday,

I can just paint all day. 

It’s a perfect job and a fantastic way to live

– it helps me feel alive. "

      

" My art is my freedom 

– it’s been difficult to arrive here but now I feel so free,

 I can create freely. " 

    

       

      

To see more of Claudio’s artwork visit his website.

Mesita

Meet James.
James Cooley is a self-taught musician from Colorado. He is the man behind the solo music project Mesita and also released his first EP Cherry Blossoms back in 2008.  His recent album The Coyote is out in April this year. It is on my playlist ever since. Visit his Tumblr to know more about Mesita and here is our interview with James.

Hospitality

Formed by vocals Amber Papini, drummer Nathan Michel and bassist Brian Betancourt, Hospitality is one fine indie-pop band from Brooklyn, New York. Catchy tunes, easy and fun. The group will be launching their self-titled LP in January via Merge Records. Check them out.

Hospitality

Androcles and the Lion

Androcles and the Lion from Athens, Georgia in U.S. was formed by McKendrick Bearden and Austin Harris in August 2010, later joined by Paul Stevens. The group recently released their debut EP, As Far As Blindness Could See, in summer 2011. Listen to their songs here :)

Here is the interview with Androcles and the Lion

Lukasz Wierzbowski

Please tell Lukasz I have so much love for his photography - girl's face behind the flower pot, hair over unknown faces, human attempts to blend with the nature, hidden under the car ... quirky, fun and emotional. Some photography just makes you love at first sight. It is such a pleasure to look at Lukasz' pictures. 

      

      

Lukasz Wierzbowski, better known as Neon Tambourine on Flickr, is a Polish freelance photographer insisting on shooting in film only, currently living and working in Wroclaw, Poland. He was the one who always wanted to study history of art, but instead he became a dental technician, and after that he started studying psychology, only to realize that the only thing he truly loves is photography. 


Lukasz' works become popular hits on tumblr and flickr. It was his father who first introduced him to film photography by showing Lukasz (age of 12) how to operate one of the old rangefinder cameras he owned.


Lukasz drew inspirations from what he experienced and was hoping to collaborate with aspiring young fashion designers. His recent commissioned work from Urban Outfitters is absolutely mesmerizing. 

We are delighted to talk with Lukasz about himself

Visit his amazing blog