말리카 파브르(Malika Favre), 프랑스, 삽화가, 1982-현재
프랑스 출신의 '말리카 파브르'는 단순한 일러스트에 기하학적 패턴을 결합시키는 그래픽 아티스트입니다. 선천적으로 심한 사시를 가지고 태어나 수술로 교정을 했지만, 그녀는 여전히 일반 사람들과는 다르게 사물을 봅니다.
3D로 볼 수 없고, 세상을 평평하게 보고 있답니다. 그래서 그녀는 빛과 그림자에 대해 깊이 이해하고, 색상에 무척 민감합니다. 그리고, 작품에서도 서로 대조적인 최소한 색깔만을 사용해서 작업을 하죠.
사람들은 그녀의 작품 스타일을 '팝아트와 옵아트(Optical Art : 시각적 환상을 이용한 작품)의 만남'이라고 부른답니다. 지금은 런던과 바르셀로나에서 프리랜서로 활동하는 그녀는 유명 잡지의 표지, 축제 포스터, 광고, 출판 분야에서 일하고 있습니다.
About Her
Under a high ceiling, Malika Favre is lounging low on the sofa in her studio apartment. Her dark, intelligent eyes survey the sturdy shelves across from her, resting upon a detailed drawing of Battersea power station, a skateboard emblazoned with her colorful graphics and a framed print of the elegant woman-in-hat illustration she did for The New Yorker. On her desk, an iMac sits untouched; at a table to one side, her assistant, Thomas, works on a laptop, running the online shop.
“Actually, I’m on a bit of a break at the moment,” says Favre.
But that’s not why she’s on the sofa. On the coffee table wait her MacBook Pro and a bijou graphics tablet. She works from her couch and makes no bones about spending ten hours solidly sketching out ideas for clients like Le Monde, Sephora and Vogue.
“I’m working on a couple of editorial pieces,” the French artist explains. “I do mainly magazines and collaborations these days. I have moved away from advertising and branding and have decided to go back to what I did in the beginning, which is editorial.
“I just find that the quality of the work is much better, and the briefs are much more interesting. You get more creative freedom, especially the magazines I work with, like The New Yorker. You are sent an article, and that’s it—you don’t get told what to draw or what to do.”
From the top floor of a 1920s building in Hackney, in the East End of London, Favre’s confidence is at a peak. The bold, graphic style she has developed over the last fifteen years attracts prestigious projects. When she was invited to design the poster for this year’s Montreux Jazz Festival, held every summer in Switzerland since 1967, she became part of a group that includes Milton Glaser, Andy Warhol and Keith Haring. Her poster is full of female silhouettes dancing, the negative spaces between them forming instruments.
The concept is genius, but as is so often the case, it’s all down to the execution. The poster works so well because the shapes are strong and simple. Favre spends hours on her sofa, perfecting curves and reducing forms to as few lines as possible.
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