Friday Favorite: Armelle Caron

5/20/2011

This Friday’s Feature artist is Armelle Caron!
I love the way French artist Armelle Caron takes maps of cities and reorganizes the individual blocks into ordered rows! This process transforms chaotic cities into systematic assemblages of shapes.

Berlin

Istanbul

New York

Paris

The World

In this work, Armelle Caron gives our eyes a new world map which has been dismantled, disassembled, then carefully realigned.

Check out Armelle's website to see even more cities!

TGIF!
Mary

23 Comments

Kala

5/20/2011 12:05:32 am

Wow, beautiful, what a unique and different way of looking at maps:)

Anneke Wijers link

5/20/2011 12:48:49 am

Hi Mary,
Thank you so much for your nice comment.
I like the (pieces of) maps on your blog.
I started following you on networked blogs.
Greetings, Anneke

katerina link

5/20/2011 01:28:15 am

Hello Mary!!
Thank you for visiting my blog :)
I'm very happy meeting interesting artists and I'm looking forward seeing your art!!!
Wish you a wonderful weekend!!!

Beth link

5/20/2011 01:48:07 am

Hi Mary, thanks so much for dropping by my blog and leaving me a comment - I do love comments! I am following your blog now as well and want to thank you for sharing this most interesting view on maps! Also, for the list of films on artists, adding many of them to my list of "to watch" as we speak!
Have a fabulous weekend,
Beth P

Erin link

5/20/2011 02:33:23 am

Whoa - that's awesome! Love this feature - thanks for sharing, Mary!

:) :) Erin

Brandy link

5/20/2011 02:36:59 am

These are so neat! I'm off to investigate these pieces more! :)

Roanne link

5/20/2011 03:23:29 am

How graphic - love it!

Terri Morse link

5/20/2011 03:40:10 am

The rearranged pieces look like an ancient pictorial language such as hieroglyphics. Very cool!

Victoria Chang link

5/20/2011 03:40:38 am

Very interesting! I love the world map one, and the Berlin map kind of reminds me of a leaf skeleton!

Diane Salter link

5/20/2011 03:43:33 am

Hi Mary--Great Blog!! Thanks so much for visiting mine, and I really LOVE the post you have about the movies with the different artists--I LOVE these types of movies--time to visit my Netflix page!!

Caatje link

5/20/2011 05:29:45 am

thank you so much for your nice words on my blog. Yours seems fascinating. I love how you feature different artists too. I will defenitely check back!

Debs

5/20/2011 06:11:55 am

I prefer the randomness of the actual map.

However, the line format looks like a DNA pattern for the city!

Dale Parker link

5/20/2011 06:43:53 am

Mary,
Thank you for visiting my blog. You are probably my first new visitor in a while. Love your work. I have always been interested in looking at maps. I am one of the weird people that will sit and look at an atlas for hours. About 30 years ago my father had a small plane he would fly just for fun. When I would go up with him I'd enjoy looking down at all the patterns I would see in the land below. I always thought that would make an interesting series of paintings.

Barbara link

5/20/2011 01:12:08 pm

I like it too, but OMG, how long it must take!

Julia Dunnit link

5/20/2011 05:44:29 pm

How nice of you to visit my blog Mary, I've enjoyed a long browse through yours I must say..the list of films is very inspiring, I've only seen a couple! Armelle's work is really interesting - I must dig a little deeper - my first thought was that it's like she's created a new language, after all, internationally we must share some map iconography?!

sherry goodloe link

5/21/2011 12:52:53 am

Very cool! And you know what ELSE is very cool???? You are a runner-up of my recent blog Give-Away. Yep, you sure are. Stop by and see :) You just need to send me your snail mail address so I can get you prize mailed to you.

Peggy B link

5/21/2011 01:22:06 pm

Hi Mary..Stopped by to see what you are up to. And it looks like we are on the same wave length. I recently spent the day cutting up my old Nat. Geo. maps into sizes for various mediums. Such fun..now I have to work with them. Your use of maps is very intriguing.
And thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment!

Ann's Art @ Studiohyde link

5/21/2011 09:06:27 pm

Hi Mary, What an interesting post and what a different way to deal with maps!

Debbie link

5/22/2011 01:43:16 am

such an interesting and original idea! I also checked out your movie reviews and some of your art and liked what I see! Thanks for your comments and for following me!

danielle

5/22/2011 12:16:13 pm

Mary, thank you so much for following my new blog and your kind words!
Danielle

Megan Kissman link

5/22/2011 12:46:16 pm

Hi, Mary- What a fantastic post. I love the creativity of dissecting maps, you get a whole new perspective/ appreciation of the shapes that actually make up the city/location. Thanks for following me on my blog and the sweet comment! Much appreciated! I've become a follower to your blog too!

Cynthia link

5/22/2011 02:15:21 pm

Love this work and the idea. Thanks for posting it. Also, thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment and mentioning miss katie. Love her portraits. As soon as I sign up for facebook will definitely follow your blog. In the midst of moving, so computer time is limited.