Generative and collective wall painting
Quartier Saint-Jacques, Clermont-Ferrand, France
June 2023
Project commissioned and organized by Pauline Simon for the city of Clermont-Ferrand. 220 participants from three primary schools in the neighborhood.
Generative and collective wall painting
Quartier Saint-Jacques, Clermont-Ferrand, France
June 2023
Project commissioned and organized by Pauline Simon for the city of Clermont-Ferrand. 220 participants from three primary schools in the neighborhood.
Aleatory Mechanical Drawings (DMA), 3 colors, 16 x 24 cm (6.3 x 9.4 inches).
Pigmented ink on acid-free Montval Canson 300 g. paper. Series of 99 monotypes, each drawing is unique.
The DMA_ARQ drawings are composed of three layers traced one on top of the other, each one has a different color. For each layer, the protocol builds a 2 x 3 grid. In each cell, it places a shape, randomly selected out of 24 (including an empty one). The generated image is sent to an Axidraw plotter with a marker mounted on it. Each layer uses a different color, so the marker has to be manually changed for each new one.
For DMA_ARQ[cmy], the collector can choose his drawing using the compositions generator.
To generate and order a drawing, please follow the instructions here: www.eltono.com/DMA_ARQ/.
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Generative mural painting
Paris La Défense, France
September 2022
Project commissioned by Art Entreprise for Paris La Défense and QPark.
Generative and collective painting
Saint-Cyprien Middle School, France
June/July 2022
20 participants
Aleatory sequence of four colors alternated with white. Project commissioned by the College of Saint-Cyprien with the participation of the Departmental Cultural Agency Dordogne-Périgord.
Generative and collective mural painting
Nancy, France
June 2022
Project commissioned by the city of Nancy with the fine Art Museum of Nancy and produced by Le Mur Nancy. With participants from Braconnot elementary school, Saint Michel Jericho Social Center, REMM Children’s Home and the neighbors.
Gymnasium Maurice Jacquet :
Process :
Pictures: Pierre, Greg and Eltono.
“A talk with the city”
Generative and collective mural painting
Conversano, Bari, Italy
May 2022
“A talk with the city” is a public art project funded by the STHAR LAB of the Puglia Region and entrusted by the Municipality of Conversano to the Pigment Workroom cultural association in collaboration with “Museco” museum complex of Conversano, CIME, ZICZIC and CONTEMPO.
The shapes used for this protocol were inspired by architectural details of the city of Conversano. The old part of the city is full of arches, columns, stone stairs and more arches. Before the painting, a generative silk screen printing street workshop was organized to create the compositions to be painted on the wall. More than 30 participants from the high school in front of the wall joined us in the process. During the next two weeks, David and I painted the top part and the people from Pigment Workroom, with the help of the participants, painted the bottom part. As the wall has always been an important graffiti spot in the city, we decided to leave the bottom part blank and open to spontaneous interventions.
Big thanks to everyone who made this project possible: Pigment Workroom, Zic Zic, Museco, my fantastic assistant David and tutti gli studenti del Classico!
Generative and collective mural painting
Moulin-Voltaire grade shcool in Chaumont, France
2021
125 participants
Project carried out with 125 students from Moulin-Voltaire and Jonchery grade schools and Camille Saint-Saëns middle school.
