Art in Techno-Music #6 - Tryptichon II [Slight NSFW]

When biomechanical art meets techno music.

Brussels. August 2016. Parad!gm organises an electronic music night in November and they'd like decoration for it. Since I have been living there for 8 years, a certain fork of the technoid population knows my work. Parad!gm contacts me and ask if I could be interested for doing an exhibition during the event. Though I'd always want to do something like this, it wasn't the event for it. I told them that this was way too dangerous for the pieces but that I was ok to paint something small, print it on big panels that we can put around the scene and have it sent to them (As I live in Berlin). Deal!

So I did two of these vertical panels and one horizontal.

I posted already about the other panel here if you are curious about it.

Like all the pieces I do since 2016 with watercolour, I watered the paper then attached it to a board (here with staples). As it dries up, it get tensed and then doesn't warp with all the water. Then after the pencil, here at this step, the inking is almost done. The original size is around 35x15cm (13,7x5.9) in.

For this painting, there is only one colour: Payne's grey (and black colour and pencils).

Here's a shot during the setup of the event.

During the gig. Unfortunately no good pictures! But you can imagine a little bit the pulsing beats and people definitely having fun.

For information, the organisator couldn't do anything with the panels as they were way too big to even hang in his home (3x1,2m - 118.1x47in). So he gave them to a friend.

Brussels has a vibrant electronic scene but like in many cities around the globe, niches of quality "underground" events are threaten to shut down. The venue where the event happend was called "Recyclart", it ran for decades and prove to be a major actor of the city's nightlife, attracting tons of people. It actually closed a month ago. These places are keypoints for the youth (and less youth) to freely and safely gather to express themselves through making or dancing to music plus all what's revolving around. Anyway, it's just a shame that many decisions are taken in favor of the "corporate approved" alienating feed instead of the real people's culture, the one that they just simply do.

Photo by Wouter Spitters

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