Kevin Van Aelst is a very recognized photographer from NY. I very liked his style because he becomes common objects and places from everyday life to AWESOME pieces of art. Van Aelts is just a new artist, so he isn’t part of any historical period. It’s just like a new way of doing art.
He was very fond of sciences like math, chemistry, physics, and biology when he was young. Now he has found the way to combine science with art; just as he said “This work is about creating order where we expect to find randomness, and also hints that the minutiae all around us are capable of communicating much larger ideas.” And that is true. All of his photographs are taking place in the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom… And he uses materials such as bread, milk, eggs, cat excrement, mustard… All together generates a new perspective of arts.
However, I want to focus on sequence of photos: The fingerprint series, 2007. Van Aelst represented each of his 10 fingerprints on different ways. He says it is like an autobiography because all of the fingerprints were made by objects that had some meaning in his life. For example, he describes that the cheese curls fingerprint remains him to a friend’s basement where they eat them and play Nintendo. And I find this very personal, I men, your fingerprints are unique. You will never find other person with the same ones. And what Van Aelst does its just beautiful. They all are very original, but he didn’t made them just because he had nothing to do. No! It’s his whole life, his hobbies, work, relatives, friends, problems, fears…
I think that currently, people, in general, are living a very fast world and they don't stop just for a minute to admire the beautiful world that we live on. We should stop for a moment and think all the things that we have, and the others that we want to have.It is nice to dream. And you could imagine that you are just in peace, with no stress, no problems, just happy, smiling.
I really like the photo of the “Right Index Finger” which is made of the tape of a cassette. Here is how I feel the blanks or “concrete” the photo. First of all, it represents music, a very important part of my life because I like to sing, dance, play guitar, make sounds, even I like to make rhythm with anything which is near me. Second, a fingerprint leaves a mark, like a song could mark your life or maybe remain you some memories or special moments. For example, I have my favorite song, and I could hear it the whole day without getting bored, and every time I heard it I can interpret it different. And I think that also make the song a piece of art. And the last one is the decorations around the fingerprint. It’s like he just put together all the things that were on his desks, and there is where the fingerprint get a whole meaning, the context.
Furthermore, I really believe that he is trying to explain us that there could be art everywhere! We just need to have something to express (the work of art, as Ingarden says). Then you need to find some material to make it (the physical object), and it could be ANYTHING. When you finish you could take a photo and keep it. Maybe it will be shown on a museum exhibition, maybe not. But the important thing is that you expressed what you felt. That is the very meaning of arts.
Here I put you the link to Kevin Van Aelst web page: http://www.kevinvanaelst.com/
Hope you enjoy it.
He was very fond of sciences like math, chemistry, physics, and biology when he was young. Now he has found the way to combine science with art; just as he said “This work is about creating order where we expect to find randomness, and also hints that the minutiae all around us are capable of communicating much larger ideas.” And that is true. All of his photographs are taking place in the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom… And he uses materials such as bread, milk, eggs, cat excrement, mustard… All together generates a new perspective of arts.
However, I want to focus on sequence of photos: The fingerprint series, 2007. Van Aelst represented each of his 10 fingerprints on different ways. He says it is like an autobiography because all of the fingerprints were made by objects that had some meaning in his life. For example, he describes that the cheese curls fingerprint remains him to a friend’s basement where they eat them and play Nintendo. And I find this very personal, I men, your fingerprints are unique. You will never find other person with the same ones. And what Van Aelst does its just beautiful. They all are very original, but he didn’t made them just because he had nothing to do. No! It’s his whole life, his hobbies, work, relatives, friends, problems, fears…
I think that currently, people, in general, are living a very fast world and they don't stop just for a minute to admire the beautiful world that we live on. We should stop for a moment and think all the things that we have, and the others that we want to have.It is nice to dream. And you could imagine that you are just in peace, with no stress, no problems, just happy, smiling.
I really like the photo of the “Right Index Finger” which is made of the tape of a cassette. Here is how I feel the blanks or “concrete” the photo. First of all, it represents music, a very important part of my life because I like to sing, dance, play guitar, make sounds, even I like to make rhythm with anything which is near me. Second, a fingerprint leaves a mark, like a song could mark your life or maybe remain you some memories or special moments. For example, I have my favorite song, and I could hear it the whole day without getting bored, and every time I heard it I can interpret it different. And I think that also make the song a piece of art. And the last one is the decorations around the fingerprint. It’s like he just put together all the things that were on his desks, and there is where the fingerprint get a whole meaning, the context.
Furthermore, I really believe that he is trying to explain us that there could be art everywhere! We just need to have something to express (the work of art, as Ingarden says). Then you need to find some material to make it (the physical object), and it could be ANYTHING. When you finish you could take a photo and keep it. Maybe it will be shown on a museum exhibition, maybe not. But the important thing is that you expressed what you felt. That is the very meaning of arts.
Here I put you the link to Kevin Van Aelst web page: http://www.kevinvanaelst.com/
Hope you enjoy it.
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