Gorkem acrobaties au sol en 2 temps (2023) Drawing by Helene Vogel

Live model session with Gorkem, of Turkish origin.

Title: "Gorkem acrobatics on the ground in 2 stages".

A quick incursion on a site relating to the meaning of first names tells us:
“Gorkem is a popular male given name. Men with the first name Gorkem may come from Türkiye.
The meaning of the name Gorkem is: Magnificent, Magnificent. »
An obvious look of Freddy Mercury: tall, sculpted, sharp and graphic body, ingrown face framed by short very brown hair, with sideburns in front of the ears. Thin, barely noticeable mustache.
A strong personality enters the stage and takes it over.
He reigns on the stage, chaining the sequences with the greatest concentration, creating rich and constantly renewed universes.
He seizes the available elements and stages them.
Singular poses that call for a thousand references: Freddy Mercury on stage, Rodin's thinker reviewed and corrected, references to actors from black American series or great rock stars.
Like a living model masterclass: the total actor-artist.
It reigns over the passage of time, gives the tempo, the emotion and its changing colors.
He is calm and poised, masterful. However, we can guess the life that is bubbling, the adrenaline that permeates the room.
It is a breathtaking spectacle whose scenario is constantly renewed and revisited, twirling, surprisingly intense.
We are bewitched, dazzled, honored by such a privilege, called to enter into an intense communion in coherence with the showman's proposal on the stage.
It is impossible to deny the model's silent and imperious injunction to resonate with its proposals, to live up to the gift it offers us.
A haunting question always comes up: isn't it the most intimate part of personality that is offered to us here? the one that is only revealed on very rare occasions in a lifetime? Seizing the urgency of this precious and necessarily ephemeral moment is about the balance of beings and the world. And in this dizziness, in this second state, transcribe on the sheet the present moment which is already no more. No room for doubt or questioning, the concentration is too intense, to be here and now, in your place. Everything is aligned.

The living model session is broken down into several successive stages.
A few poses of 5 minutes allow the warm-up of the gesture, the acuity of the look, the taking into account of the universe of the model.
Then, like a very slow dance, the model performs a continuous movement according to her current state of mind.
The artist tries to capture the moment, the ephemeral pose.
The concentration is intense, the gesture quick, the idea is to capture the essential before it escapes.
Finally, after a short break, the gesture and the spirit aligned and sharpened, come the longer poses of 10 minutes like a stretched breath: they offer the possibility of identifying and taking care of more details, of playing with the brush and the colored washes, to identify the features of dry or bold pastels, to sit the model in its decor and the balance of shapes and colors.
Finally, in the fluidity of time passing, the moment has passed and we are already projecting ourselves into the following pose and sketch.
The model continues to imprint its universe with a new proposal.

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