#Christophe Hamaide-Pierson

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Above is “A very anxious feeling”, 2007, by assume vivid astro focus, part of Tampa Museum of Art’s 2022/3 exhibition All in Favor: New Works in the Permanent Collection.

From the museum about the artist collective and the work- A very anxious feeling by the collective assume vivid astro focus (avaf) conjures both sense of worry and whimsy. In this vibrant neon artwork each letter is rendered in a different color-ranging from pastel pinks and blues to bright primary colors. The final letter, a yellow capital “G,” appears to fall away from the text.

Eli Sudbrack founded the collective assume vivid astro focus in 2001 and works collaboratively with fellow artist Christophe Hamaide-Pierson. A very anxious feeling represents a prime example of their art, as they are known for their colorful, kaleidoscopic paintings, drawings, sculptures, and light installations. assume astro vivid focus explores notions of free speech, gender identity, and civil rights in their artworks and projects. The collective often partners with other creative types, including musicians, dancers, and designers.

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Casa Triângulo gallery, which celebrates 35 years of activity in August 2023, is delighted to present amarelo vento azul floral (as cores se acumulam em sua atmosfera tecendo luzes), the fifth solo exhibition by assume vivid astro focus at the gallery. Since 2001, when Eli Sudbrack and Christophe Hamaide-Pierson formed assume vivid astro focus, museums, galleries, and public spaces worldwide have…

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Picture #1:

aimez vous avec ferveur window project in collaboration with Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir aka Shoplifter window project in collaboration with Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir aka Shoplifter Animated neons and synthetic hair The Modern restaurant at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY June 10, 2008–November 1, 2009 exhibition website

Picture #2:

aqui volvemos adornos frivolos

Mixed-media installation

Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany

September 20–October 25, 2008

Opening night performance by Lala By

Picture #3:

abra vana alucinete fogo #1

2012

Print on paper

30 x 40 inch edition of 30 for Artspace

12 x 17 inch edition of 150 for Artspace

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Assume Vivid Astro Focus

The collaborative Assume Vivid Astro Focus was formed in New York City in 2001. Its first members are Eli Sudbrack from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Christophe Hamaide-Pierson born in Paris, France. Avaf combines all drawings, sculptures, videos, and performances into carnival-like installations that all gender, politics, and cultural codes float freely through art. Avaf’s work recycles and transforms imagery from one project to the next—often alongside the form of densely patterned wallpapers and graphic signage. Rather than one artist with their own separate experiences, we get two artists with twice the influence. The majority of the interview is given by Eli Sudbrack. Eli’s experiences are extremely visible in his work and focus. Eli grew up during the reign of a dictatorship in Brazil with his father, an open-minded man that also favored the arts, and his conservative mother. Growing up in an environment where one's freedoms were constantly challenged it is clear as to why Eli gravitates to the ideas of freedom in his art. As for Christophe, Paris has always been a liberal state so it is clear that the environment Christophe grew up in influenced him to create art involving the freedom of expression. This is different from Eli’s experience but both life experiences pushed them into art. The art process that both artists endure is collaborative, different from the previous artists. Both look at politics, news, and culture, then discuss their ideas even though one is in New York and the other is in Paris, the partnership provides feedback necessary for the development of ideas. By collaborating both artists are able to create a stronger experience for the viewer. As previously stated, before collaborating they must look around and see what is going on in other people's lives and in society. An example of this would be the destruction of houses to create new high rises. Eli focused on the discarded buildings as materials for an installation giving a platform for this situation. He stated in the Art21 that this could be seen as the destruction of history but also a chance to generate a new history. Eli and Christophe’s art itself can be an interactive experience for the viewer. Shifting gears to focus on gay rights, the pair look at the start of gay rights in disco then create an installation that invites the viewer into a night club. They created a large doll half male, half female to welcome guests, they will later destroy this doll to show the destruction of history and the creation of a history for the previously discussed art piece of demolished buildings. The disco installation not only focused on the creation of gay rights but the idea of freedom. Not only the freedom of love but the freedom in life, or at least this is what I got from this piece. Eli often talks about energy and its flow; this energy is created from an atmosphere that they have created. An energy that cannot be captured or recreated but can flow to other n flow to other people at that moment. As an artist I can take inspiration away from this pair, both challenge the idea of freedom and energy by looking at today's world, I could look more into cultural pressures because I tend to focus on imagination and not reality.

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Assignment #6: Individual Research on Video Art & Artists

Andrew Thomas Huang

Andrew Thomas Huang is an artist filmmaker stationed in Los Angeles, California. He is best known as an experimental filmmaker whose videos are a representation of video art and film being connected. Working with Icelandic artist Bjork and many others, his creates surreal settings and characters in his videos.

Artist: Andrew Thomas Huang

Title: Atoms For Peace - “Before Your Very Eyes”

Year: 2014

Medium: 5:48 min, video, music video

Themes: Surreal | landscape | emotion | song | Time

The song that goes with the video made feel energetic and calm. The rhythm is upbeat but the singing is very soothing. The video show a very surreal looking landscape with buildings at one point and a guy’s head popping out the ground and singing throughout most of the video.

Principles/Designs

Color ( light brown, yellows, oranges, blues)

Line ( the lines that create the ridges below the mountains)

Form ( the head, mountains, buildings)

Texture ( the Rocky Mountains, ridges on ground)

Contrast ( mountains vs head size creates a surreal display)

Emphasis (the camera tends to focus a lot on the talking head)

Movement ( the up and down movement of the groups and buildings crumbling)

Artist: Andrew Thomas Huang

Title: Bjork - “The Gate”

Year: 2017

Medium: 6:48 min, video, music video

Themes: Surreal | Musician | Landscape | Love

Similar to the first video, this one gave off more of a calm and peaceful feeling. It’s very colorful and shows a lot of movement. This one starts with the singer in a surreal like landscape and then changes to the singer dancing in a complete dark background.

I like how much production and animation creating goes into his videos that he makes and the ones he directs as well. Here the emphasis is put mainly on the singer who is dressed in a very bright outfit. There is movement not only shown by her but by the swirling animated visuals. This same visuals create lines at in some ways or another as they move. 

assume vivid astro focus

assume vivid astro focus consists of two artists. The first one is Eli Sudbrack who works from Sao Paolo and New York. The second artist is Christophe Hamaide-Pierson, who lives and works from Paris. Together they combine many medias to create their neon-bright, Carnavalesque installations.

Artist: assume vivid astro focus

Title: antes vulgar agora fino #1

Year: 2012

Medium: 15:00 min, Video, No audio, color

Themes: Abstract | Colorful | Neon | Carnival

This video was made in collaboration with Honeygun Labs. This reminds me of the 3rd project we had where we had to create a digital abstract painting then turn it into a Gif. Here however they made it into a 15 minute video. 

There is so much going on in the video. There is color first of all. They used very bright colors which stand out for the majority of it. They have shapes involved, mainly triangles and circles. There is movement by stroke effects or shape patterns created but don’t follow a certain similar path. They pretty much move all types of ways across the screen. It’s all very chaotic but soothing to watch.

Artist: assume vivid astro focus

Title: antes vulgar agora fino #2

Year:2012

Medium:15:00 min, Video, No audio, color

Themes: Abstract | Colorful | Neon | Carnival

This one was also a collaboration with the same group. However, in this one the the stroke like effects seem to move in a circular motion for most part of the video. Just like the first video, the movement is very slow with the occasional fast pacing of some parts like the neon lights scene at 6:29. 

Most of their work is very colorful and uses a lot of neon bright colors. They do seem to have that carnival relation which relates to where Eli Sudbrack is from. There is pattern and rhythm created by the strokes and their movement. 

Video Art

Just like digital art, video art will only continue to grow and become more popular as technology progresses. It will start to get more of the recognition and attention it deserves as an art medium.

Artists Connections & Themes

assume vivid astro focus’s video remind me of the Gif I did for project #3. Of course they’ve been doing this for a while and their is way better. Andrew is a collaborative artist which is something like about him. Just how Eli and Christophe work together, Andrew works with artists like Bjork to create these amazing videos.

One of the first hit videos Andrew Huang made was based on the issue of television and it’s affect on society. He likes to combine live action, visual effects, and mixed media. assume vivid astro pro focus on creating work that represents freedom to express oneself and life.

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Assume Vivid Astro Focus

Eli Sudbrack and Christophe Hamaide-Pierson are the faces behind Assume Vivid Astro Focus. This particular carnivalesque installation of theirs appeals to me with the hyper sexualisation of a playful nostalgic blow up slide. I love the neon colours in an otherwise dull carpark and the long manicure toes of the laying figure. The collaborative project expresses their belief of ‘freedom to share/spread/absorb/assume/contaminate/inseminate/devour’ in their immersive works, a belief that I aim to express through my works from this point on, as it encapsulates the way in which I like to think about the effects art can have on both the artist and viewer.

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Dysfashional

DYSFASHIONAL Exhibition at Passage du Désir, Paris  October - November 2009  With Bless, Hussein Chalayan, Item Idem, Antonio Marras, Maison Martin Margiela, Mathieu Mercier, Justin Morin + Billie Mertens, Raf Simons, Bernhard Willhelm + Christophe Hamaide-Pierson among others. Curators: Luca Marchetti, Emanuele Quinz Producer: Anne Davidian

After two previous stages, one at the MUDAM, in Luxembourg, and the other at the MUDAC, in Lausanne, the international exhibition DYSFASHIONAL announced a renewed version to be installed between Paris and Berlin.

Turning the world of fashion on its head, DYSFASHIONAL invited some of the leading contemporary designers to create physical expressions of the concepts behind their collections, through the eclectic media of film, collage, performance, sculpture, installation and music. Staged like a construction site, the exhibition explored complex issues of identity, revealing that fashion is, beyond the objects that materialize it, an unstable state of sensibility.

Photos feature the installations by Maison Martin Margela, Bernhard Willhelm + Christophe Hamaide-Pierson, and Bless (in the order of appearance).