So there it all happened last friday night in Gracia, Barcelona : the opening of the group exhibition with all the artists in presence. As the galery is very small , it was full packed (like in an Irish pub) but it’s always a warm impression compare to a empty, silent gallery.
Elena, who is in charge of the space had the oportunity to make the launch of this christmas fair wich is really affordable and fit perfectly theses hard money times, with pieces prices starting from 50 euros and a 90Euros max price. She also added to her speech that all artist had a minimum of social vision of the art and that many of them have a active engagement with the local community of Gracia.
First impressions were good and i allready have few portraits sold as christmas presents. If you want to visit it theses days, the gallery is open from Wednesday to saturday 6pm -- 9 pm and during the day on saturday.
Little early christmas present for you all who are reading theses lines : the movie clip of the opening with a special bonus on the last15 seconds : you will see your host on pagazine speaking in Catalan !
For my first gallery exhibition, it will take place at the “Paspartu Gallery” in Gracia, Barcelona.
This is a group show with a three week time during the christmas hollidays here. So, i will present a special portrait serie with the continuous line. I’ ve planned to present 20 small portraits and 5 bigger, with some never seen before faces…
The new thing about this show is that all the portriats will be shown with showroom conditions, with A3 and A4 size. I’ve worked on resizing the portrait for a perfect fit in the frame. Some pictures later….
Few weeks ago, when i was going to the post office into ship my parcel to the opposite side of this world , Carmen, the post officer gave me some papers with informations about postal rates, leaflet, and an ad about a competition for the “Correos”, the sapnish postal service and the aim was to designa new packaging for the 2012 parcels.
Like the Luas competion in Ireland, i said to myself that it was a good opportunity to try the spanish competitions, so i’ve been on the website and it was spanishly annoucing the competition, rules, etc … in spanish, and i don’t speak spanish yet. Thnaks to google translator (wich is not that bad actually), i’ve entered my finished design and have entered the competition with a big white box covered with just one single line, theses kind of boxes i love to design and cover it with tons of fancy stories…
Here is the result of the box with a 3D view, in a very pure style and some black ink on it.
I also noticed a very interresting orthografic correction of my name by a very smart software. the first mitake is mine (the “n” instead of the “m” ), but i rarely make the second mistake wich is the feminisation of “emmanuel” . Maybe because of my haircut…
2. Forgetting the competition
Well actually, i didn’t gave too much attention to the next of the on-line submission, according to the great number of competitors (more than 300) and the very classy and perfect finished design. I guess i’m the one to have submit a hand made design, all the others have been done using photoshop , digital pen and mistakes free softwares. However, i’ve “facebook” voted for my design to support myself, because i worth it, like my hairs.
The list of the designs could be seen at the following website specially design for the competition :
What a surprise when i received a mail in spanish few days before the official gala of the competition. So it was an invitation send to all thoses who did participate to the competition, and the event did take place in Madrid
Geographically speaking, Madrid is at about 600km (400 miles / 7 hours drive) from Barcelona and 3 days before the event, i thought it was a bit a rush, especially when you don’t know if you will receive something or not. Following this invitation, i’ve jumped to the website into see the selection of designs entering the final step of the competition of the year 2012.
Here they are :
4. Reception and official announcement.
As i didn’t travel to Madrid yesterday i can’t give you pictures about the event. However, the following web page give the list of the winners all along the reception with special guest and president of the jury ”David Delfin”.
So this morning, i did get receive the following mail which says :
“Buenos dias Pierre:
Ante todo felicitarte por ser el ganador en la categoria de E-COMMERCE. “
So without really believing in it till this morning, i am the winner of this competition !!!!!!!!
Next year, ask for a Spanish Ecommerce Parcel and you will get one of the , 100.000 parcels designed by me !
For all thoses who wants to see it in details, here it is !
Petite introduction à un concept catalan de la narration. J’ai appris un nouveau mot cette semaine, “Auca”, qui signifie “Oie” comme l’animal, petite bande dessinée conçue à la manière d’un jeu de l’oie, avec une histoire racontée au fil des images.
C’est une tradition très forte ici en catalogne, cependant cela a existé en France il y a déjà plusieurs siècles. Quelques auca sont connues ici tel que la vie de “Montserrat” ou autres figures emblématiques de la région. Joint à ces images, un petit texte écrit en proses pour relever le niveau solennel de cette bande dessinée . On (Joan Carles) m’a fait remarqué que mes portraits étaient plus proches de l’Auca que de la bande dessinée, narrant ainsi l’histoire d’une personnalité. (comme quoi on croit avoir créé quelque chose mais il y a souvent eu des précédents…).
Comme un dessin vaut mieux qu’un long discours, je m’en vais vous conter une des histoires d’un français à Barcelone…
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Pronouce “Hawk A”
Little introduction to a catalan concept of the story telling. I’ve learned a new word this week, wich is called “Auca” and means “goose”, and the story looks like “the game of the goose”.
This kind of narrative pictures are a real tradition here. it used to be very famous in france in the 16th century. So here it is still used and tell stories of great people like “Montserrat” or George, etc… Joined to thes pictures, we can usually found a little poetic text with rhymes, something very closed to the “Limerciks”. One said to me that my portraits were very close to this concept and sometimes you think about finding something new wich used to be common during the old times. So here is my Auca of a recent story…
Here is the first ” continuous line ” based on a clothing piece. The tee shirt is a unique piece and necessited many hours of work. It’s called Delirium, free inspiration based about everything. So if you get a closer look to it, you will find : A hunter and his dog, flowers, a radio gaga, a rocket, monsters, flags, a horse jumping, red lights, a wizard, motorbikes, sheeps, computers, tractor, band on stage, a monkey and banana, a soccer player, etc, etc…
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Voici le premier vêtement basé sur le principe de la ligne continue. Le tee shirt est une œuvre d’art portable, pièce unique qui a nécessité de nombreuses heures de travail. L’œuvre est intitulée “Delirium“, inspiration libre et si vous vous approchez d’avantage vous trouverez dans le dessin : un chasseur et son chien, des fleurs, un ‘radio gaga’, une fusée, des monstres, drapeaux, un cheval sautant une barrière, un feu rouge, un sorcier, des motos, des moutons, ordianteurs, un groupe sur scène, un singe et des bananes, un joueur de foot, etc, etc….
I’ve turned to realise that the website was a bit overloaded with toys and fancy functions but it’s a bit slow and difficult to navigate. Well, after processing the web experience of the visitors, iv’e turn back to a very simple version. (it should appears on your screen like the picture).
The big news are : the collection are more easier to browse and there are links to purchase everything which could be purchased.
Maybe this version of the website would be easier to manage, without any fancy toys or whatever. At least, i will be able to update on a regular basis.
Well today i’ve had a great surprise with discovering an article from a blogger, blogging about my last entries on my Etsy shop. Always a great pleasure to have feedback and nice comment !
Well thanks to Niceties and her Blog “Niceties” from New Zealand….
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Aujourd’hui, j’ai eu l’agréable surprise de recevoir un mail de la part d’une blogueuse de l’autre côté de la planete. Elle parle à propos de mon magasin en ligne “ETSY” et des dernières oeuvres mises en ligne. Merci à “Niceties” pour son article.
“Aujourd’hui, je decouvre les oeuvres de Pierre-Emmanuel Godet, un français qui apparemment habite à Barcelone, Espagne (selon les dires de son Etsy). Il propose 70 dessins originaux dans son magasin, et je pense qu’ils sont tous fantastique- les portraits en fichiers attachés qui representent quelque portraits et c’est un style vraiment à part des autres portraits utilisant des pochoirs que j’ai déja rencontré avant. Faites un pas en arrière de votre écran et vous pourrez ainsi apprecier comment ils rendent bien sur vos murs !
Je pense que ces dessins sont parfait pour faire un cadeau original et il y a tellemnt de choix de celebrités que vous êtes sur de trouver votre portrait favoris !
The day has only just started and I already know this is going to be the best discovery of the day – so thanks for sharing! I’m trying to choose between a couple and, you’re right, they’re all awesome!
Here is a compilation of different wall of fame and few ideas for framing the portrait with one line. Theses are artistic views but the composition of portrait are from my art Collectors…
Theses last few weeks were dedicated to high production of portraits and starting to sale them on ebay. I unfortunately don’t have time to update all the portraits done, but it will come soon.
However, have i a map of were my art collectors are. I’ll update it as soon as i get a new happy owner of one of my paintings. View the collectors map online !
Elena, who is in charge of the space had the oportunity to make the launch of this christmas fair wich is really affordable and fit perfectly theses hard money times, with pieces prices starting from 50 euros and a 90Euros max price. She also added to her speech that all artist had a minimum of social vision of the art and that many of them have a active engagement with the local community of Gracia.
First impressions were good and i allready have few portraits sold as christmas presents. If you want to visit it theses days, the gallery is open from Wednesday to saturday 6pm -- 9 pm and during the day on saturday.
