Atelier Bingo
Atelier Bingo is an duo who experiment with screen printing and other graphic techniques to
create colourful and abstract works. Maxime
Prou and Adèle Favreau, are the two members, who have a common passion for
illustration, graphic arts and pattern design. I looked at there work for
inspiration when designing my calendar. They specialize in making
screen-printed posters, using not only different artistic techniques, collage,
gouache, pens, inks, etc, but also various shades of colour combinations to
create electrifying artwork.
Interview questions:
You work with different media -are you
more connected to any of them in particular?
Adèle: Paper is
our favourite medium and will always be. We like to play with it, to touch
it. There are so many different types of paper out there, we want to
experiment as many as possible – we don’t think we could ever get tired of
it. Throughout our time at uni, we were really interested in publishing
and in the book industry in general. This common passion quickly fed into
our projects.
Why is colour so important in your work?
How do you decide on your motifs and themes in your work?Maxime: Colour
is something very important to us. It’s a risk, a constant challenge. It brings
a part of surprise to our work.
Adèle: As for
fabric/material, we like them raw, whether as a picture or as a cut-out.
We like to experiment with these, crop, re-arrange but always without any
computer software!
“We
build the image up, color by color, and we never know what it will look like
before the last color is added. That’s our bingo style!”
Response:
The G.F smith brief stated the importance
of the calendar celebrating the tactility and power of colour. Atelier Bingo’s work uses colour in a
celebratory way and each piece has its own mood. An initial idea was to use the
coloured card of G.F smith to create my own moods and collages to represent the
mood of different months.
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