Experimental animation director Max Hattler has just completed two strangely enticing animation loops inspired by paintings by French “outsider artist” Augustin Lesage (see artwork below).
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Hattler, whose recent work includes distinctive tour graphics for Basement Jaxx and an intricate and eye-catching stop-frame animation called Aanaatt, directed the films, which were made by a team of student animators and cg artists at The Animation Workshop – Centre for Animation in Viborg, Denmark.
The hypnotic, mesmerising loops are both heavily influenced by Lesage’s A Symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World paintings, from 1923-25. They are being showcased at the Lumen Eclipse “public media art gallery” in Cambridge, Massachusetts in a Hattler solo show that runs from 1 April to 30 June.
1923 aka Heaven (by Max Hattler) from Max Hattler on Vimeo.
1925 aka Hell (by Max Hattler) from Max Hattler on Vimeo.
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