{"id":189,"date":"2012-09-16T21:25:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T00:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artnaturemoncton.ca\/?page_id=189"},"modified":"2016-08-29T21:13:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T00:13:31","slug":"paul-griffin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.artnaturemoncton.ca\/fr\/symposium-dartnature-moncton-2012\/2012artistes\/paul-griffin\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Griffin"},"content":{"rendered":"

[:fr][wpcol_1half id=\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0\u00bb class=\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0\u00bb style=\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0\u00bb]\"\"Paul Griffin<\/strong> voit na\u00eetre sa pratique artistique dans le grand nord de la Colombie-Britannique. En travaillant comme b\u00fbcheron, il est tomb\u00e9 sur la construction d’une grosse maison en rondin dans un trou paum\u00e9 pr\u00e8s de Hazelton. Jamais auparavant ne s’\u00e9tait-il vu charpentier ni n’avait-il construit quoi que ce soit, mais son \u00e9merveillement devant l’int\u00e9gration impeccable des rondins de quarante pieds s’imbriquant parfaitement les uns dans les autres le marqu\u00e8rent. Sous l’influence de ce moment esth\u00e9tique il s’est d\u00e9di\u00e9 pour les prochains huit ans \u00e0 l’apprentissage du m\u00e9tier de construction de maisons de bois rond.<\/p>\n

Au c\u0153ur de ce trajet vers la construction et l’architecture existe la croyance fondamentale que les labeurs quotidiens peuvent \u00eatre art; que le travail manuel d’un charpentier qui monte une charpente de maison, ou le labeur d’un homme qui vend et corde ses b\u00fbches devraient prendre la forme d’une expression artistique importante.<\/p>\n

Il a d\u00e9racin\u00e9 sa jeune famille et d\u00e9m\u00e9nag\u00e9 \u00e0 Sackville, NB pour faire son Baccalaur\u00e9at en Beaux arts \u00e0 Mount Allisson University et depuis, il s’efforce continuellement \u00e0 transformer le quotidien en l’exceptionnel par le biais du monde des beaux-arts. Il s’oriente vers la photographie et la sculpture et aspire \u00e0 faire d\u00e9couvrir et m\u00eame r\u00e9ifier les objets du quotidien et les mat\u00e9riaux de construction.<\/p>\n

Pendant qu’il termine sa Maitrise en Beaux-Arts \u00e0 l’University of Guelph, il fusionne la photographie et la sculpture pour cr\u00e9er des amalgames visant \u00e0 nous faire voir les tensions qui existent entre les objets de notre quotidien et les \u00e9motions et\/ou les r\u00e9flexions inexprim\u00e9s qui s’y rattachent.<\/p>\n

Se penchant sur de plus grandes installations d’art compos\u00e9es de tas de bois plac\u00e9s dans des endroits publics, il cr\u00e9e une vaste \u0153uvre qui unifie de fa\u00e7on efficace son d\u00e9sir d’affecter directement le public; un travail qui souligne la beaut\u00e9 inhabituelle d’objets quotidiens.<\/p>\n

Tout en travaillant \u00e0 Mount Allison University, Griffin continue de mettre de l’avant son art, se dirigeant vers une exploration plus complexe de sculptures hybrides. Il emploie des \u00e9l\u00e9ments que nous tenons comme acquises et nous les fait voir sous un autre angle qui les impr\u00e8gne de sens, de pertinence et peut-\u00eatre m\u00eame de beaut\u00e9.[\/wpcol_1half]
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J’ai souvent vu les marques d\u00e9signant l’orme malade; une chose vou\u00e9e \u00e0 la destruction afin de pr\u00e9server la flore urbaine. Pourtant, j’ai toujours trouv\u00e9 intriguant la nobilit\u00e9 et le charme esth\u00e9tique latent qu’ont ces ormes morts, fi\u00e8res sentinelles silencieuses parsem\u00e9es dans les rues de la ville. La mode actuelle est de tronquer les troncs et d’y sculpter des personnages historiques pour la post\u00e9rit\u00e9 mais j’esp\u00e8re pouvoir apporter plus d’attention \u00e0 la beaut\u00e9 formelle ainsi qu’\u00e0 la po\u00e9sie de l’arbre en soi. Les ormes d’Am\u00e9rique, les plus susceptibles \u00e0 ce terrible fl\u00e9au, sont des arbres particuli\u00e8rement beaux; les branches comme des vagues, l\u00e9chant le tronc avant de s’aventurer vers l’horizon.[youtube width=\u00a0\u00bb250″ height=\u00a0\u00bb187″]http:\/\/youtu.be\/xQGlLUpKir8[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

En recouvrant le tronc de petits clous de toiture formant un sarcophage ou un genre de cercueil, je veux capter l’attention du public et lui faire voir la beaut\u00e9 et la noblesse de l’orme abattu. Avec l’espoir que le public marque une pause r\u00e9flexion sur cet arbre fa\u00e7onn\u00e9 par le temps et la nature pour noter ce qu’a contribu\u00e9 cet orme \u00e0 la richesse de notre vie pendant la dur\u00e9e de la tienne. [\/wpcol_1half_end][:en][wpcol_1half id=\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0\u00bb class=\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0\u00bb style=\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0\u00bb]\"\"
\nPaul Griffin<\/strong> began his art practice in the wilds of Northern British Columbia. While working a logger he happened upon a large log building under construction in the backwoods of Hazelton. B.C.. In his first 20 years of life he had never applied himself to construction or in anyway thought himself as a carpenter yet the way that the forty foot logs fit together in a seamless undulation of golden wood captivated him for some reason. Under the spell of this aesthetic moment he dedicated himself to learning the craft of log home building for the next eight years.<\/p>\n

At the heart of this movement into construction and architecture was a core belief that everyday labour and work could be art; that the manual work of a carpenter framing a house or the labour of a man who sells and piles cordwood should be shaped into an important artistic expression.<\/p>\n

After deciding to uproot his young family and moving to Sackville to attend Mount Allison University for a Bachelor of Fine Arts he continually endeavored to bring the everyday into rarefied field of Fine Art. Gravitating to the practice of Photography and Sculpture he strove to explore and even reify everyday objects and building materials.<\/p>\n

While completing his Masters of Fine Arts at University of Guelph he began to fuse the practice of photography and sculpture creating combines and amalgams that spoke to the unarticulated creative tension that exists between objects we use everyday and the hidden thoughts and\/or emotions that attach themselves to those objects.<\/p>\n

Moving into larger installation work involving woodpiles placed in public locations he created a large body of work that effectively unified his desire for an art that speaks directly to the viewer; for work that highlighted the uncommon beauty of everyday objects.<\/p>\n

While working at Mount Allison University Griffin has continued his art practice moving into an exploration of more complex hybridized sculptures utilizing elements that we take for granted and placing them in a new light that imbues them with meaning, relevance and maybe even beauty.[\/wpcol_1half]
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I have often seen the spray marking that brands the Elm tree something that is diseased; something that most be destroyed to safeguarrd the rest of the urban flora. Yet I have always been intrigued by the latent nobility and aesthetic appeal of these dead Elms that stand like silent sentinels throughout our city streets. The latest fad has been to truncate the trunks and carve historical figures for posterity but I hoped to bring more attention to the formal beauty and poetry of the tree itself. The American Elms which seems the most affected by the blight are particularly comely in form; the branches are almost wavelike, curving out of a massive trunk.<\/p>\n

By creating a covering of small roofing nails that form a sarcophagus or ritualized coffin of sorts I wish to draw the viewer’s attention to the beauty and nobility of the fallen Elm. Hopefully causing to viewer to pause and reflect on how time and Nature has shaped this tree and how the Elm has enriched our lives over its lifespan.[\/wpcol_1half_end][:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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