Tags: Arizona, Hays, Kansas, Parigi, Sean McGinnis, String Installations
Inhabited or disused public and private spaces such as houses and shops are brought back to new life through the colour textures realised by Sean McGinnis’s patient hands. Bred in Kansas and apprenticed in Hays, Arizona, where he started his professional career, the American artist has been working in Paris since 1997.
After becoming familiar with new materials and creative domains, Sean decided to focus his research on the merging of contemporary art with the artistic exploitation of common use objects he himself finds.
His long collaboration with the fashion firm Casey-Vidalenc has enabled McGinnis to rediscover materials like thread and string, and to choose the latter as his favourite one. His preference for ordinary spaces and his faith in the importance of the artistic gesture, which may be to the disadvantage of the artist’s fame, have enabled him to become an outstanding figure on the contemporary artistic scene, so much so that, over the past few years he has presented countless temporary and permanent installations both in France and in Europe.
His String Installations develop the concept of three-dimensionality by playing on the repetition of lines in the design of different forms. Thousands of metres of string run and intersect, repeat the same trajectories and generate vaults, arches and spirals, without ever repeating the same motif.