Carpet / Jonathan Bréchignac

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法国设计师Jonathan Bréchignac创造出世界上最复杂的地毯。不过这些地毯不是纺织物，而是由他一笔一笔在纸上慢慢画出来的。巨大的画幅上，每一个细节都如此一丝不苟。对于这种“慢”，Jonathan Bréchignac提到自己曾经在几家广告公司工作，在那里感受到一切都非常快，5秒钟的广告比比皆是。他希望做一个“大”事，每天每天完成很小一部分。怀抱着这样想法的他发现伊斯兰式的地图非常适合自己，伊斯兰设计通常是抽象的集合图案，这些够纯粹的图案让受了印度教文化影响的Jonathan Bréchignac觉得具有冥想的意味。当Jonathan Bréchignac绘制地图时，他仿佛是在冥想。

这些令人惊异的复杂地图并没有打草稿，而是由Jonathan Bréchignac直接绘制出来。当然，绘制每一副都耗时巨大，一般来讲是8个月之久，而第一幅作品更是花了一年半。

精美绝伦的地图，错综复杂的细部，这些绘制地毯更是代表了一种生活态度和生活方式。

作品将从2013年9月27日展出到2014年2月9日，从地中海一直到中国。

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French designer Jonathan Bréchignac makes some of the most intricately designed carpets you have ever seen, but there is nothing woven or loomed about them. In fact, Bréchignac’s carpets are not made of textiles at all. Instead, they’re made with Bic pens: gigantic illustrations of carpets on sheets of paper, accomplished with a meticulous attention to detail that makes them look almost three-dimensional.

“A few years ago, I was working at an ad agency, and I was struck by how much of the design being done had a very limited life span,” Bréchignac tells Co.Design. “We would make hundreds of mockups for an ad that would be seen for, what, five seconds? I felt like it was all going by so fast.” Bréchignac’s Bic carpets were created as a response to this modern idea of art as a commodity. “I wanted to work every day on the same drawing, to make each and every day a little part of a bigger thing.”

This idea of waking up every day and contributing a small part of yourself to something bigger than yourself found a natural metaphor in the medium of Muslim prayer carpets, the style of rug that Bréchignac decided to begin illustrating. Because of the nonfigurative, geometric purity of Islamic design, Bréchignac felt as if they would make a “noble” subject for a series of large illustrations meant, by their very nature, to be meditative. “Repeating the same pattern over and over again works for me like a mantra,” he says. “It’s my technique of meditation. It’s how I empty my mind.”

As for Bics, to Bréchignac, they represent the universality of art itself. “Every one has doodled with a Bic during a phone call,” asserts Bréchignac. “I have chosen them because nothing can be more universal than a Bic pen.”

Although Bréchignac’s designs are extremely elaborate, they are amazingly not sketched out beforehand. Instead, Bréchignac draws each line and pattern directly on his sheet of paper, taking a step back at every point to examine the whole and plot what he wants to do next. His process can be extremely time consuming. “It can take me up to six or eight months to complete a single carpet,” says Bréchignac. “The first one, though, took me a year and a half.”

But the results are exquisite. Intricately detailed, they look extremely realistic from a distance; only when you draw close to them do you become aware of the technique involved. Each finished carpet looks as if it has been somehow drawn, not onto paper but onto life.

Making its debut in Brussels, at Villa Empain, the piece itself will be on display from September 27th, 2013 to February 9th, 2014, as part of the The Blue Route: Journeys and Beauties from the Mediterranean to China Exhibition.

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