Shaped Cinema https://vimeo.com/18989804
HD, 13', Silent, Color
Shaped Cinema is a video that brings Frank Stella’s Shaped Canvases to life, setting them in motion alongside the critical words of William Rubin from 1970. The editing process mirrors the logic of the paintings themselves—just as Stella’s canvases are shaped by their content, the video is structured by the visual dynamics of his work.
This project exists as a video, five photographic prints, and an artist’s book. Created in 2010–2011 at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, the artist’s book was later published by the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.
Extract of the catalogue of Allen&Overy Collection: "Here, the Frenchman Maitre works as a Deconstructivist, a term coined by Maitre’s fellow countryman and philosopher Jacques Derrida. The paintings of the most progressive geometric shaped canvas artist of his time, Frank Stella, are “deconstructed” into strips and then rebuilt into a new work of art."
This work has been acquired by: StedelijkMuseum, Amsterdam; collection Allen & Overy Netherlands Partners; andaz-Hyatt video collection; Private collections (NL, BL) -
Richard Anuszkiewicz RAIN CUHZASRK DIEWICZ
(Weaving Film Series) https://vimeo.com/56150352 HD video silent, color, 2'25"
I re-sequenced the frames of a 1965 video documenting Richard Anuszkiewicz painting an abstract geometric piece, disrupting its linear progression. This manipulation replaces narrative continuity with a dynamic, flickering optical effect that stimulates visual perception over cognitive interpretation.
JOKES https://vimeo.com/167737447 HD, 13', Silent, Color
This video is based on a series of paintings that have been scanned and processed digitally through a particular process in order to create this motion video. The content of the paintings shows abstract patterns created through different analog techniques. Words can also be found. They are taken from the quotes of cartoons found in the New Yorker magazine.
JOKES
Prologue: a man opens the door, sees the devil and closes the door. He opens the door, sees the devil and closes the door.
Chapter 1: JIM. Jim receives a note under the door, he is intrigued, especially because it's the door of the closet. A man opens the door, sees the devil and closes the door. He opens the door, sees the devil and closes the door.
Chapter 2: KEVIN. Goodbye Kevin, I could look the other way with the boozing and the skirt-chasing but I did not sign-up for Bicycle clothes. A man opens the door, sees the devil and closes the door. He opens the door, sees the devil and closes the door.
Chapter 3: THE CAGE. Well, I checked again and we are definitely the ones inside the cage. A man opens the door, sees the devil and closes the door. He opens the door, sees the devil and closes the door.
Chapter 4: ?. A helicopter is searching for a car on the road during the night.
THE END
Flicker Stack Fire (weaving films series) https://youtu.be/n2rpCMl303c HD video, silent, color, 1'11'
Flicker Stack Fire is a video created by weaving together three rotating camera movements around a stacked arrangement of objects: a coffee cup at the bottom, a canister of hair spray on top of it, and a camera tripod placed at the very top—all positioned on a round straw carpet.
The Magic Vase https://vimeo.com/108713903 HD video, silent, color
Mandala République https://vimeo.com/90836243 HD video, color, silent
FILM DE JOUR - Gunduz Filmi https://vimeo.com/55528381 PAL video , 2’30’’, color, with sound
Sculptures at the Bonnefantenmuseum (site-specific film at the Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht)
Three L (weaving films series)
An Interview with Jayson Blaire (in my studio at the Jan van Eyck Academie)
In the 2000s, American journalist Jayson Blair was exposed for fabricating stories, admitting he never visited the sites he reported on. Artist Jean-Baptiste Maître reenacts the coverage of this scandal, staging the narrative within his studio at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, surrounded by his works in progress. Fluorescent tube lights flicker in response to the camera’s sensors, creating an interplay of light and perception. The piece draws a parallel between the construction of an artist’s work—its visual mediation and oral presentation—and the fabrication of facts in journalism.
Camera Movements Following Circles And Arcs
Site specific film produced in the occasion of the exhibition Post-Sculpture: Bruce MCLean, Jean-Baptiste Maitre, at Galerie 1M3, LAusanne, January 2013
Why Do Things Get In A Muddle
Mandala République https://vimeo.com/90836243 HD video, color, silent
The Magic Vase https://vimeo.com/108713903 HD video, silent, color
FILM DE JOUR - Gunduz Filmi https://vimeo.com/55528381 PAL video , 2’30’’, color, with sound
Sculptures at the Bonnefantenmuseum (site-specific film at the Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht)
Three L (weaving films series)
An Interview with Jayson Blaire (in my studio at the Jan van Eyck Academie)
In the 2000s, American journalist Jayson Blair was exposed for fabricating stories, admitting he never visited the sites he reported on. Artist Jean-Baptiste Maître reenacts the coverage of this scandal, staging the narrative within his studio at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, surrounded by his works in progress. Fluorescent tube lights flicker in response to the camera’s sensors, creating an interplay of light and perception. The piece draws a parallel between the construction of an artist’s work—its visual mediation and oral presentation—and the fabrication of facts in journalism.
Camera Movements Following Circles And Arcs
Site specific film produced in the occasion of the exhibition Post-Sculpture: Bruce MCLean, Jean-Baptiste Maitre, at Galerie 1M3, LAusanne, January 2013
Why Do Things Get In A Muddle