Marie Bocquet
CUT
Rennes, Lendroit , 2009
6,5 x 15 cm
96 p.
ISBN 978-2-917427-12-5

” As we start to skim through the pages, the box cutter seems to slide along the ruler and we think that nothing happens… Suddenly, the pages happens to be cut as if we have held the box cutter in our own hands. Magic of flip book! Artist’s inventiveness! Marie Bocquet did know how to combine imagination, simplicity of an everyday act and the sophistication that makes an object original and unique.

Everybody can make a flip book and that seems to be very simple, but to make a good one requires several skills: first a good idea and then a true sense of animation. It is this combination which makes the flip book work, ensures its fluidity and surprises us.

Artists ‒some of the greatest‒ have been interested in flip books since the second half of the 20th century. Painters, sculptors, draftsmen, photographers and specialists in animation have sometimes taken it like a game among many other works and often without any special presumption. The greatest successes are usually the simplest and this is the case here.

Marie Bocquet is a graphic designer, for example, she had realized a whole work of creation on the word “cut”. It’s all naturally that she may assimilate the flip book technique to offer us this attractive object. Like the American artist Julia Featheringill, she have defaced a very simple situation to produce an artistic work.

This feat had been awarded in the first international flip book competition of Rennes in April 2007.”

Pascal Fouché

O livro está disponível em vídeo no site da artista:

http://www.mariebocquet.com/galerie_flipbook.html

http://www.lendroit.org/catalogue/fiches/248-CUT