(Q - apollo: I have a question about the visual of the 420 in the specifications there are only the planets finally tells you to put planets and I no longer know a compass I think,
and you only have that, only these elements, and on the visual you make a yellow sun, a kind of sun, but you don't know the solution to the riddle, but well most of them have Dabo obviously, solar
, anyway, did the idea of ??the sun come to you like that?)
MB : absolutely, there is nothing more boring than painting the symbols of the planets like that, it's not very sexy and then the ""N"" is not very sexy either.
So I said to myself I have to be able to place this in a context that is nice! You must understand that today I am talking with you after almost 30 years, I got into this story of the golden owl, it sticks to me but at the time when I painted the paintings, the owl was not yet finished, I was starting, I had never done a treasure hunt in my life, neither had Max Valentin and so it was completely new and when he gave me these elements , I said to myself well yeah it's not very exciting to represent that.
But is it really a sun? Isn't it another planet, who knows? no I'm saying that but of course, no I'm being ironic in saying that but above all I did, I love the effects of color contrasts and so I made this huge black task to give the most value to the lights in the background and to allow me to give the elements positioned around it, the various and varied symbols to give them relief, to light them up, in a nice context.
(Q - BlackCorbac: precisely the symbols of the planets the 420, you held back, there are several graphics, it's really a choice that you made spontaneously or it was inspired by wishes from Max?)
MB : but no, now you know everything that Max asked me you know, it's the specifications so everything that is not in the specifications is me, and now I'm going to say what that I did, because I saw the symbols of the planets, I said to myself yeah what are the symbols of the planets, so I took the little Larousse, that's why we see the small sketches on the sheet and I put them on the board.)
(Q - apollo: because there are many who see things in the representations of the planets, the four, the seven, there are some who see lots of things?)
MB : so if we want to classify things, could we start with the places where no one sees anything to eliminate a little?
(Q - ??: I think everyone has overinterpreted everywhere...)
(Q -apollo: everyone sees sparkles everywhere!)
MB : the sparkles are pretty, I like them.
MB : absolutely, there is nothing more boring than painting the symbols of the planets like that, it's not very sexy and then the ""N"" is not very sexy either.
So I said to myself I have to be able to place this in a context that is nice! You must understand that today I am talking with you after almost 30 years, I got into this story of the golden owl, it sticks to me but at the time when I painted the paintings, the owl was not yet finished, I was starting, I had never done a treasure hunt in my life, neither had Max Valentin and so it was completely new and when he gave me these elements , I said to myself well yeah it's not very exciting to represent that.
But is it really a sun? Isn't it another planet, who knows? no I'm saying that but of course, no I'm being ironic in saying that but above all I did, I love the effects of color contrasts and so I made this huge black task to give the most value to the lights in the background and to allow me to give the elements positioned around it, the various and varied symbols to give them relief, to light them up, in a nice context.
(Q - BlackCorbac: precisely the symbols of the planets the 420, you held back, there are several graphics, it's really a choice that you made spontaneously or it was inspired by wishes from Max?)
MB : but no, now you know everything that Max asked me you know, it's the specifications so everything that is not in the specifications is me, and now I'm going to say what that I did, because I saw the symbols of the planets, I said to myself yeah what are the symbols of the planets, so I took the little Larousse, that's why we see the small sketches on the sheet and I put them on the board.)
(Q - apollo: because there are many who see things in the representations of the planets, the four, the seven, there are some who see lots of things?)
MB : so if we want to classify things, could we start with the places where no one sees anything to eliminate a little?
(Q - ??: I think everyone has overinterpreted everywhere...)
(Q -apollo: everyone sees sparkles everywhere!)
MB : the sparkles are pretty, I like them.