Little Studio Dialogue #02

Fabrice Samyn You See Best in Winter the Nest

Blow painting and collage with natural elements

Between the blue of the twilight sky and the lines that escape the brush with Fabrice Samyn's breath, tree trunks appear, revealing the beauty of the nests rooted in them. The Belgian artist is presenting here, for the first time, a series of paintings and other works that reveal his natural affinity with birds, ever since he can remember. As part of Fabrice Samyn's solo exhibition, You See Best in Winter the Nest, the blow-painting and collage workshop with natural elements began with a guided tour of the exhibition by the artist, where the children were invited to enter his sensory universe and gave wings to their imagination through the coordination of blowing, fine motor skills and gaze. This was the beginning of an adventure that awakened the senses of the little ones, to discover the relationship between our strength and fragility, to be able to guide our breath where we want it to go, so that, like a bird's flight, we arrive at the desired destination, with reference to the imaginary journey to this fertile forest of nests, which the set of these paintings presents.

About the workshop…

Among Fabrice Samyn’s trees, we were led to the rhythm of the questions that the artist raised to each one, in a dialogue between him and the younger ones, thus building a relationship of trust with his little interlocutors, who were absorbed in discovering the similarities and differences between Samyn’s forest and above all when understanding that each line on the canvas was made following the duration of a long exhalation. The complicity that was created after sharing some of these secrets of the artist’s technique was dominant throughout the rest of the guided tour and throughout the workshop.
With a curation that reflected the dominant colours of Fabrice’s paintings - blue and black - our blow painting workshop delved into the essence of the lines of tree trunks in the twilight, which seem to cut out the blue sky and reveal the nests that birds form. We learned, as the artist observed, that “it is at this “blue hour” when the visible and the invisible become indivisible.”
Using Chinese ink, blue paper, straws and the simple act of blowing, we gave life to the lines, guiding them with our breath, until they approached the desired tree. Finally, with natural elements, we made a large nest together, where everyone collaborated in its construction and we ended up with a drawing of the imaginary bird in 12 hands, and we even named it “Bipicanabe”.
Congratulations to all the little artists who joined us! Your curiosity, creativity and imagination gave rise to an interesting dialogue between you and the artist and some really cool works!
Special thanks to the artist Fabrice Samyn and the coordinator Mariana Ramos.