Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

My First International Photo Exhibition - Emaho Magazine - Hands NY

The photo below (Hands - NY) will be part of the Emaho Post 2012 Exhibition in Singapore (Feb/2012) and later on in New Delhi, India (where it will be up for sale)!!!

Hands


50 photos where selected, out of 3301 entries (source), around the theme Street Travel, my new speciality ;-)

Congrats to all!

Here are some links to the Exhibition and Emaho Magazine:
http://emahoexhibition.com/
http://emahoexhibition.com/results/
http://www.emahomagazine.com/
https://www.facebook.com/events/144235872358136/


UPDATE: here are 2 photos showing my pic at the Exhibition:


emaho singapore 120210 2


emaho singapore 120210 1

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Warps - new digital photomontage

Warps

(note: ultra-highly recommended to be viewed in fullscreen or downloaded)

Title: Warps
Digital Photomontage / Collage by iuri kothe, made on 110114.
Using a photo a took in 2010: 100916 morro de sao paulo 014 (haven't uploaded it anywhere yet).
Mainly selecting triangles & freeforms and using the amazing warp transformation feature.

Long time i don't try a digital collage (crazy, the last digital one was in 2007 with photos i took in boipeba - an island near morro), and the last times i've tried an analog one, nothing came out. i think i'm a little tired of making the same style again, so i tried some new directions...

my main inspiration was this montage by anatoly: "Persistent Pyramids".

obs: i've finally started to code my own website (in rails), hope to release it as open source soon...

obs2: i've changed the Creative Commons of my Flickr photos just to 'Attribution' (more info on CC-by here). basically you can use, share, remix & sell, burn, ... given you remember to credit me somewhere ;-)

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Architectural Collages

This is cool:

http://www.localdistance.org/collages.php



Its made with software that analyzes perspective and other crazy stuff, check this video out:


http://vimeo.com/9202755


Here are 3 somewhat similar collages i've made without algorithms some time ago...:

ac_trail II


ac_lookin for a new way


ac_Trail3


Please release this software for us to play with :-)

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Monday, January 25, 2010

New collage - May I - with video

New collage! With video!!

May I ?
or see the original scanned file on flickr (2302x1780 200dpi)

Title: May I ?
Analog Collage
Date: 2010 / 01 / 23
Size: 30x24 cm.
Magazines: National Geographic - Dec/2009 (0912) and Jan/2010 (1001) Editions.

And here's the time-lapse video (~10min) on how i did it:






or see it in youtube: Making the "May I ?" Collage or see it in vimeo

Music: silver mt zion - blown-out joy from heaven
Video software: gawker (time-lapse) & imovie09 (editing)

As you can see in the video, my cat Zumi helped me a lot... :-)

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

New Collages - Explorando & Trail 3

Yep, i'm hopefully back into collage/photomontage!!!
Here's what i've done:

EXPLORANDO

ac_Explorando

Title: Explorando.
Analog Collage by iuri kothe, made on 100108, size: 17x12 cm. Using only National Geographic - December 2009 (0912) Edition.

See the making off in Youtube:







and this:

TRAIL 3

ac_Trail3
Title: Trail 3.
Analog Collage by iuri kothe, made on 100108. size: 19x18 cm. Using only Attitude Magazine (may/jun 2007).

note: as always, just click on the images above so you can get it / see it bigger in Flickr.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

2 collages exhibited at Araka - Rio - Aug/25/09

Terça-feira agora (dia 25/08/09) vou expor duas colagens na festa Araka aqui no Rio de Janeiro.

Começa 20h no Zerozero.

Entrada R$25 ou R$15 se mandar email para artearaka@gmail.com

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IN ENGLISH:

Next Tuesday (08/25/09) i'm participating at a group exhibition/party called Araka here in Rio de Janeiro. It starts 8pm at Zerozero.

Both collages will be for sale.

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"Araka" - Rio [BR] - 08/25/09
O Flyer


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ac_ouvir estatuas
Ouvir Estatuas


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ac_Feeding
Feeding

Monday, February 2, 2009

6 Collages with 1 National Geographic

Saturday i broke 2 of my records:

So here they are:

Holy Science:
ac_holy science


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Drunk Dreaming:
ac_drunk dreaming


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Tiny Beings:
ac_tiny beings

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Flying Lesson:
ac_flying lesson

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Gilliam meets Larson
ac_gilliam meets larson

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3 2 1
ac_3 2 1

You can download the full size collages (200dpi) on my Flickr (just click on All Sizes on each image page):

Or even better, you can make them yourself:

Just buy the National Geographic Feb. 2009 (in any bookstore) and use Scissors & Glue.

Saturday, January 31, 2009

My Music Library

FINALLY!!!!

After years & years of gathering songs and transfering from one HD to the other, today i have finally tagged ALL my songs!!

Status:

  • 13242 songs = 51.9 days = 99.23GB

  • 36 Genres, 1234 Artists, 1805 Albums


My biggest problem was creating/inventing the Genres tag, as you can see in the screenshot of my iTunes (that i hate, but i'm stuck on it in my mac):

My iTunes on 090131
To read them, see the original size here.

Now my next duty is to listen & rate them ALL! including updating my Last.fm profile. So keep an eye there (now i'm checking my Ethnic genres out)...

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Bebum Collage


ac_Bebum, originally uploaded by iurikothe. Made on 081023, size: 22.5x14.5 cm.

On my last post i was struggling because i couldn't see any relationship between the images i had (newest National Geographics).

So today, there i go again trying to use only the November 2008 edition of the Nat.Geo. but the collage was getting very very cliche: using monkey and chimps and making a 'human's destroy nature' collage, which i got really tired of doing. I want something new...

So while trying to make a collage these two images where together on the side, the drunk mexican and the primate (yes, i like primates). So i played a little with both and there we had a nice connection.

enjoy...

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Experiencing Art

Last saturday i went to see Hariprasad Chaurasia at Seattle's Town Hall. The concert was nice, but could be better. I mean, how can i appreciate indian music sitting on a wood bench with 300 people while 4 musicians are playing and i'm listening through microphones and loudspeakers???

The whole way we are experiencing art today is bugging me.

On museums and art galleries its the same sickness, or worse, it must the prepared for so many people, that the whole experience is fucked up.

Last year i was in Madrid, went to Reina Sofia to see Dali, Picasso, Braque and company, and, for example, getting to the famous Guernica, what do i see?

madrid07nov_067.jpg

People, confusion, talkings, no sofa, no place to chill...

Seeing Giacometi at Metropolitan NY (last year):

newyork2007oct_020.jpg

I mean, how can you appreciate an artwork that way?

Getting back to music... watching Radiohead at Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco last month, i had a similar feeling sometimes during the show. Seeing them 500 meters (no, i don't want to learn US non-metric system!) away, with crazy sound and many people around. Of course i liked it, beeing with my friends there and all. I had a great time, but as far as 'experiencing the music'? The real cool thing would be seeing them (and Chaurasia, McFerrin, Riley etc) closer without the whole electrical paraphernalia and crowd.

This is what i loved the first times on raves i went in Brazil, going to the chillout area at night in the woods with bonfire and listening a DJ playing a live jazz trio recording. That was a completely different feeling, even not being live.

The ambience is part of the experience!

Even movies [of course, there's no 'live movie' to compare], but is it really so much better going to the movies than watching at home?

Regarding music i'm sure there's no big way to improve the experience, but museums and art galleries?? Please!

Friday, September 12, 2008

Print my collages for 'free'

I just enabled the 'Print & More' option on all my images (photos and collages) for all flickr members.

So if you want to print and frame, make a book or calendar out of my collages, just:

  • login/register into flickr.com

  • select one/some of my collages

  • and order the prints


Note: I won't receive anything from flickr (that reason for the 'free' on the title).

So if you happen to do it, just drop me an nice email: iuri.art.br (at) gmail.com

Example: My favorite collages and the print option:
flickr print collages

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Run On to the originals

On my collages, i'm always trying (managing this is a pain) to credit the source i used, not because of copyright problems, but mostly to show everyone (and myself) where the original cut up came from. It gives much more information about creativity and resources to make other remixes.

And here's an music example i run onto this week:

I always loved Moby's Play album. Specially 'Run On' (see the music video). I knew it was a remix of some other song, but always forgot to go after the original. Remember, 1998/2000 it was MUCH harder (and fun) to chase this info.

So i came across this great slow motion video featuring Johnny Cash's version:







(see the Original Site)

After one google/wikipedia search i saw that both are based on a folk song called: God's Gonna Cut You Down.

Hopefully with semantic web this will all be done automatically.

Saturday, September 6, 2008

In Seattle now...

Since end of june i 'moved' to Seattle. Probably my biggest excuse why i didn't posted anything here...

Here i already made 2 collages, which i'll post on flickr soon. Now i don't want to scan the images before glueing, so i'm trying to set a little studio (tripod & lights) to take great quality pictures of them.

I also had some trouble with materials, but Johnny (www.corridorsofmind.com) told me about Half Priced books which have LOTS of great books and National Geographic Magazines (Yes, i still use them a lot). Here is my first trip result to the store:

080807 first collage materials in US

Another big thing is that my old PHP blog and site will disappear soon, so i moved my blog to wordpress and the site, which was mainly the collages browsing will be done only at Flickr. Someday i might personalize my site again, but meanwhile i moved to google sites (http://sites.google.com/site/iuri/). I'm also adding a Photos section there...

Monday, May 26, 2008

Jojo’s article about my collages

Last week my friend Joana Coccarelli interviewed me about my collages.
It just went online in the O Grito Magazine (in portuguese). Enjoy:

Joana Coccarelli: A arte-colagem de Iuri Kothe
[link to O Grito!'s post]

O corte da tesoura no papel da revista: prazer próximo à crocância palatável. Colagem, a princípio uma atividade tão jardim da infância, é na verdade uma técnica criada na China em 200 A.C. Chegou ao Ocidente no século XIII; passou a fazer parte definitiva das artes visuais no começo do século XX, com Picasso e Georges Braque; e mais recentemente, no final dos anos 70, entrou para o offstream ao ser abraçado pelo punk.

Para mim começou na pré-adolescência, quando eu mutilava Elles de mamãe atrás de imagens que pudessem ilustrar os fatos pueris que eu relatava na minha agenda (o blog de então). Após um largo hiato, comecei a criar situações com fotografias de amigos e pendurá-las na minha própria casa. E, então, houve a retumbância da arte-colagem perfeita: uma visita ao apartamento de um amigo me fez plasmar diante de cada uma de suas colagens, emolduradas por toda parte. “Preciso levar essa“, pensei. Hoje, “Ilha de Lesbos” é o eixo de meu muro de colagens - a relíquia, a peça primordial.

Iuri Kothe, o amigo artista, teve um começo casual, uma trajetória recente e uma evolução muito rápida - mas não a ponto de obscurecer suas primeiras colagens, já que seu avançado olhar estético sempre esteve ali, desde o princípio. A primeira peça, feita em 2003, aproveitou recortes usados para decorar uma festa e já continha a alfinetada ardida e a surpresa imagética que tornaria os trabalhos seguintes tão especificamente seus.

Iuri tira recortes quase que exclusivamente de National Geographic. O fato em si representaria uma limitação crassa ao artista comum, mas praticamente define o conjunto da obra do artista, seletíssimo. Seu interesse recai basicamente em pessoas, animais e paisagens, e em criar uma relação entre eles. “Muita gente simplesmente cola as imagens sem visualizar uma possível ligação entre elas”, diz Iuri. “É difícil fazer uma boa colagem sem que o artista tenha interiorizado aqueles elementos. Perde-se uma dinâmica que poderia ter sido inventada”.

Essa é a questão com as encomendas. Aconteceu de Iuri receber o pedido de um americano. A colagem precisava ter a ver com baseball, o cara mandou três caixas de revistas sobre o tema. “Provavelmente tenho mais revistas sobre baseball do que qualquer aficcionado brasileiro, mas foi difícil montar porque não tenho nenhuma experiência com o esporte”.

Com mais de 100 obras realizadas, grande parte delas “espalhadas por aí”, entre amigos e conhecidos, Iuri deixa escapar alguma saudade dos tempos em que sua técnica se limitava às revistas, tesoura, cola e papel cartão – estágio em que me encontro hoje. Com o passar do tempo, começou a usar computador para acertar dimensões e detalhes da montagem que ia fazer no papel; e logo entraria, também, pra turma das colagens digitais.

Em seu gordo networking, encontrei artistas puramente photoshops, com trabalhos magníficos, “mas não sei… fica tão parecido com pintura surrealista… perde aquela textura original de colagem”, argumentei. “Perde aquele tosco, né? Fica menos realista”, concorda ele. O contorno do recorte, o brilho do papel-revista, as pequenas imperfeições da cola entregam: um artista meteu o mãozão aqui. Na paixão e no risco, sem intermediários.

O que não significa que colagem digital seja menos arte. Talvez seja apenas mais recorrente na era da internet. “Dubroko 3”, realizada por Iuri mais outros dois de seus contatos virtuais, é totalmente eletrônica – e de cair o queixo. Cada um aplicava uma imagem e enviava para o outro, que não só aplicava sua imagem como eventualmente alterava as dos demais. Nesta animação, feita pelo próprio Iuri, tem-se uma idéia de como a peça foi feita.

Ainda assim, ele prefere a presença de espírito do artesanal, do feito à mão: o desafio de contar apenas com o que se tem, do tamanho que é, sem efeito especial, sem visualizações prévias. Também passou a preferir menos elementos. Sem dúvida, é bem mais viajante. Não só porque a integração de sujeitos se destaca como também as paisagens em segundo plano, que dão uma profundidade impressionante à cena.

Para realizar o desejo de fazer uma enorme colagem analógica, no entanto, ele talvez tenha que juntar mais imagens do que gostaria: mesmo páginas inteiras de revistas são relativamente pequenas para uma área mais extensa. Seria preciso um pouco de tecnologia – escanear as fotos e imprimi-las grande, por exemplo – e muito mais… cola.

Porque de resto Iuri tem muito. Até senso de humor para rir quando eu o chamo de avatar.

Joana Coccarelli é jornalista, autora do blog Narghee-La e idealizadora do Coccarelli.art, coletivo de artistas, blogueiros e escritores. Escreve nesta coluna sobre estética, design e moda.joana@revistaogrito.com.

Monday, April 28, 2008

DuBroKo3




DuBroKo3

This is the 3rd Digital Collage Collaboration between: Bernard Dumaine, Willem den Broeder and Iuri Kothe. Made (sending JPGs via email) from 080217 until 080422.

The all 12 parts in DuBroKo3 Flickr set.

We did also 2 videos of this collaboration:







Friday, November 23, 2007

Trips and News

Long time i don't focus on my artsy site...
Happens i was (still am) working a lot. Went 2 times to USA and 1 to Spain (for work meetings) but of course i did some culture expeditions (in Madrid, New York and Seattle).
I took a lot of photos (btw i should add a new Photos section here, but know that they are all in my Flickr Photos collection).
My last trip was to Madrid (last week) and i came up with tagging my favorite photos. (btw2 i'm spending too much time trying to organize myself by tagging, managing photos, cut-ups etc... should try to take a break on this).
One sidenote: why the heck can't we take photos in museums and exhibitions in Madrid? Even Andy Goldswhorty's WOOD! Anyway, i obviously ignored the signs and happened to take lovely pics.

So now i'm back to collaging and below is a collage i'm for some months trying to finish (as it was yesterday):
collaging_071122

Friday, August 31, 2007

my collage in the 2008 calendar

I'm participanting in the selection to the 2008 calendar entitled "Global Artists for Peace".
The artworks are here: http://virtual.tart.co.nz/exhibit.htm

My collage is the SELF, done using only images of the National Geographic (Dec 2004).

You can vote in 10 collages until next tuesday (Sept/04).
Just email your preferences to: dale(at)tart.co.nz
with the subject : "vote for Peace images"
(example: iuri kothe - self)

On the bottom of the page you can also order the Calendar.
thanks, iuri

UPDATE (Sept/05/07): My collage WAS SELECTED!!! Thanks for all votings. iuri