The author has sculpted in these last fifty years everything that has come out of his hands. Drawing has been the way to flatten and organize his cumbersome "arsenal". That's why he switched to computer graphics in spite of it's dark side; working with 3D remind us of "Morel's Invention" a famous novel by A Bioy Casares; Borges's friend and collaborator... In 1970-1973 Humanities at Vincennes University, Studies Architecture in the former "Pavillon Baltard" which preceded the " Trou des Halles ". Early encounters and influences: friends as C. Bouillé; surrealist group (Ranelagh 1967), highly attracted by "les peintres a l'ancienne" from J. Bosh to Delacroix. Other influences: "Tel Quel" group, R.Barthes, C. Levy Strauss, J. Kristeva, J.L. Sheffer "scenographie d'un tableau " (1967-1972 ). Travels: Hiking in Great Britain and Eire (Clifden) 1967, Nothern Sahara, a year stay in the Caribbean French Antilles and Guyana in 1973, voyage to the mists of time : Afghanistan, India and Nepal. Return to Europe and beginning of voyage to the inner self. First Comics published in 1980. A very inefficient way of earning a living but a way, one can hope, of assembling stories and Writing. Obsession is the antagonistic force that impulses the desire to open the scene in "l'origine du monde" ( by Courbet ). It's force opposite to that of Writing, an overpresence due to fascination. His work: Alice (1983), Gommorrhe (1982 - 1983), Alice Collection (1984 - 1985), Nagarya (1987), Thamara & Juda (1989), Judith et Holopherne (1993), Nagarya (Lost Continent) (1997), Evy-en-Ruines 1 (3D & BD) (2006). Worked on Silicon Graphics at ExMachina (T.D.I. labs ); European temple of computer graphic pictures, place of birth of "Explore" the software which later generated "Maya" along with Alias & Wavefront. Also worked in several projects like: "PolaX" by L. Carax, Reference images for "Final Fantasy" and "Man's adventure" by Yves Coppens. "Evy in Ruins" ( film and comic book).
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Peter Riverstone
The author has sculpted in these last fifty years everything that has come out of his hands. Drawing has been the way to flatten and organize his cumbersome "arsenal". That's why he switched to computer graphics in spite of it's dark side; working with 3D remind us of "Morel's Invention" a famous novel by A Bioy Casares; Borges's friend and collaborator... In 1970-1973 Humanities at Vincennes University, Studies Architecture in the former "Pavillon Baltard" which preceded the " Trou des Halles ". Early encounters and influences: friends as C. Bouillé; surrealist group (Ranelagh 1967), highly attracted by "les peintres a l'ancienne" from J. Bosh to Delacroix. Other influences: "Tel Quel" group, R.Barthes, C. Levy Strauss, J. Kristeva, J.L. Sheffer "scenographie d'un tableau " (1967-1972 ). Travels: Hiking in Great Britain and Eire (Clifden) 1967, Nothern Sahara, a year stay in the Caribbean French Antilles and Guyana in 1973, voyage to the mists of time : Afghanistan, India and Nepal. Return to Europe and beginning of voyage to the inner self. First Comics published in 1980. A very inefficient way of earning a living but a way, one can hope, of assembling stories and Writing. Obsession is the antagonistic force that impulses the desire to open the scene in "l'origine du monde" ( by Courbet ). It's force opposite to that of Writing, an overpresence due to fascination. His work: Alice (1983), Gommorrhe (1982 - 1983), Alice Collection (1984 - 1985), Nagarya (1987), Thamara & Juda (1989), Judith et Holopherne (1993), Nagarya (Lost Continent) (1997), Evy-en-Ruines 1 (3D & BD) (2006). Worked on Silicon Graphics at ExMachina (T.D.I. labs ); European temple of computer graphic pictures, place of birth of "Explore" the software which later generated "Maya" along with Alias & Wavefront. Also worked in several projects like: "PolaX" by L. Carax, Reference images for "Final Fantasy" and "Man's adventure" by Yves Coppens. "Evy in Ruins" ( film and comic book).
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