INTERVIEW HK ART AGENCY (french version) 1 Why did you become an artist Mark and how did you decide that art would become a key factor in your life?
Great question, perhaps because I can not do anything else! I was not very diligent in science subjects, therefore, impossible for me to start a career in medicine! The only thing I do is fun. I think this is the way that gives meaning to life of an artist. Take the fun to create. I started my career as a musician, I simply drag to visual art.
2 Why the choice of visual art in lieu of other forms of expression?
I do not have choice, that came naturally to me, and I went to a teaching of this type out of college. So surely something to prove to the family.
3 What is your background until now? your education and your personal experiences (exhibitions, publications, ..)
I made an art school, the Academy "Jullian" in Paris, after my graduation I started working in video and animation as an art director and then as director. I had the opportunity to work for major French artists.
I also realized numerous album covers. I started later than the oil painting. I exposed for the first time in April 2008 in London recently, I participated in a group show in Los Angeles in August 2009.
5 could you tell us more of your work?
Work is my life and my life is made of work. I was a lazy teenager and now I'm addicted to work. I love creating stories and concepts. Anything that connects to my work, my pictures as my paintings, cover a story that links them all.
6 What artists have influenced you and how?
I was influenced by many different styles, especially during my time in animation. I copied when I was a Japanese artist still in "training". I realized my path when I discovered late, and yes, the American independent cinema.
In painting, I'm a fan of John Singer Sargent and Sorolla Joaqim. As Norman Rockwell, Phil Hale and Ashley Wood, who are my contemporaries. But I think the time and my work are my main source of influence at the moment, my pictures, my work finally forge my world .. It is good to see what others are doing but I realized after a few mistakes that in itself that we find the best things.
7 In what movement you feel you most belong?
None. I like impressionism in painting the post but it made sense at the time. There is more movement today painters do more together as it was formerly. The paint as I love (figurative) is an art of yesteryear.
8 Tell us about your technique for painting? and on what medium did you already tried?
I do not really technical. This is also problematic ... because I never know what really goes out ... and at the same time it may be best to be spontaneous. I mainly work on canvas, I have tried many other carriers and I wanted to test the paint on wood.
9 You are also a filmmaker, a musician. How does it affect your career as an artist?
The music helped me become a person disciplined. I think these ten years of experience have taught me a lot about the relationship with people, socially, professionally and thoroughly. I was lucky travel a lot and make me upset that many encounter in life. Those years were very formative.
10 can you explain how and why you used photography in creating your paintings? How does the use of photography and the "classical photographic eye" affects your job?
photography helps to guide the composition of my painting. I like to create my world with real situations, connected with the characters I meet and create a story. I use my camera to make clichés and freeze these moments, I then returned to my studio, where, under my brushes, they come alive in my world. From then on I can mix paints and re-create. I love being in possession time to rethink my photos on canvas. The play of color suits me too, the passage of the color of my camera view and those in the light of my studio.
I also paint live. But unfortunately, before succeeding to ask a guy for 8 hours in the wilds of Wyoming .... needless to spend time!
11Quels motivations you aspire to paint and how do you get when you refocus your work becomes more difficult in your workshop?
I think I could not stop working, painting, etc. ... Whatever happens in my life, I desire to create in the skin. My mind is clear and even if I paint without recognition because I will continue to move forward. Creation is an outlet, a perpetual renewal.
12 How do you manage the business side of being an artist?
The dark side of the artist. I thank my lucky stars for allowing me to still be able to work, save my life besides my passions. The art form I love and who rarely touches me is synonymous with monetary success.
13 Where do you see yourself in 10 years ?
In Los Angeles, in a big house with my wife and children. By spending most of my time painting and making independent films with no one to dictate to me my steps.
14 What are the best and the worst moment in the life of an artist
I takes pleasure in everyday life. I do not know what it means to wait for the evening or weekend for a good time. I love painting, photography, produce. Having the chance to access the leisure of each of its art fills me artistically. Of course, it goes without saying that more bad times to pass are those when you know exactly what was going to feed her children. The artist's life is relatively unstable.
15 You seem to use lots of symbols in your work. Your paintings tell stories or they are they simply decorative elements of painting?
I think there always a story behind a work, it can be meaningless.
After a long period of psychoanalysis, I learned that all our actions and our actions are rooted in the unconscious. .
16 that other interests do you have outside of painting?
Anything could please me as long as I take the time to look into it. Like everything related to human motivations, passions and minorities.
Currently I am working on a script for a feature film, an unfaithful wife and Christ are part of this new story.
17 What advice would you give a young artist who dreams of becoming?
Do not do that!
18 Your only advice for aspiring artists is to stop their creation? Why?
explain to us that might discourage them?
was a joke of course. I mean, the artist's life was pretty amazing and hard at the same time. I rebuilt my life after doing this choice. I do it again but again, sometimes when I see my cousin working as a doctor, I tell myself that life is a more serious source of some stability. At the time, being an artist, with its drawbacks, is price to pay for some freedom and I can choose what to do every morning of my life.
