For Grands Canons, the French artist Alain Biet made terribly exact drawings of lots of of unusual issues – pencils and pens, flyswatters and corkscrews, shampoos and spatulas – to construct a ‘visual symphony of everyday objects’. Biet provides one other degree of artistry through his meticulous stop-motion animations, ordering and arranging these lifelike illustrations to construct an oddly entrancing viewing expertise, full with a jazzy rating by the duo YeP* that evokes the sound of the objects fluttering throughout the display. The ensuing quick movie types one thing of a tribute to human ingenuity – or, on the very least, a testomony to Biet’s knack for mining magic from the mundane.
