Hicham Berrada.
Lienart| N° d'inventaire | 24067 |
| Format | 17 x 23 |
| Détails | 128 p., 80 illustrations, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782359062359 |
Book out of print
An artist and laboratory technician, born in 1986 in Casablanca, Morocco, to a biologist mother and a pharmacist father, Hicham Berrada works to recreate nature by reinventing its rules, subverting its codes and influences, and disrupting the logical evolution of its elements. His creations are based on scientific knowledge (chemistry, fluid physics, nanoscience, etc.). Pigments, magnetism, catalysis and corrosion, the elements, and time make up his raw material and are also the very tools of his creation. His approach is thus similar to that of a painter: he masters phenomena and acts on reality as a painter masters his tools and intervenes on his canvas. Combining intuition and knowledge, science and poetry, he composes moving landscapes, chemical paintings that constantly evolve and transport the visitor into a world that is both alive and inert.
Like an alchemist, Hicham Berrada creates accelerations of time, impossible encounters, and improbable combinations that create surprise. He stages the changes and metamorphoses of an activated "nature," whether chemically or mechanically. From the laboratory to the studio, from chemical experiment to performance, the artist explores scientific protocols that closely mimic different natural processes and climatic conditions. In beakers or aquariums, he manipulates metals, acidic products, and molecules, playing with temperature and time. Like an energy manager, he develops his works by choosing a series of rules and conditions to establish a provocative protocol in his tableaux vivants of growths, effervescences, and chromatic variations.
Bilingual work.
Book out of print
An artist and laboratory technician, born in 1986 in Casablanca, Morocco, to a biologist mother and a pharmacist father, Hicham Berrada works to recreate nature by reinventing its rules, subverting its codes and influences, and disrupting the logical evolution of its elements. His creations are based on scientific knowledge (chemistry, fluid physics, nanoscience, etc.). Pigments, magnetism, catalysis and corrosion, the elements, and time make up his raw material and are also the very tools of his creation. His approach is thus similar to that of a painter: he masters phenomena and acts on reality as a painter masters his tools and intervenes on his canvas. Combining intuition and knowledge, science and poetry, he composes moving landscapes, chemical paintings that constantly evolve and transport the visitor into a world that is both alive and inert.
Like an alchemist, Hicham Berrada creates accelerations of time, impossible encounters, and improbable combinations that create surprise. He stages the changes and metamorphoses of an activated "nature," whether chemically or mechanically. From the laboratory to the studio, from chemical experiment to performance, the artist explores scientific protocols that closely mimic different natural processes and climatic conditions. In beakers or aquariums, he manipulates metals, acidic products, and molecules, playing with temperature and time. Like an energy manager, he develops his works by choosing a series of rules and conditions to establish a provocative protocol in his tableaux vivants of growths, effervescences, and chromatic variations.
Bilingual work.