With the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 happening in one of many world’s nice artwork capitals, it was becoming that proficient younger film-maker, multi-disciplinary artist and designer Zakea Web page took the chance to showcase his newest work.
The New Zealander has a powerful connection to the Olympic motion, having gained the Worldwide Olympic Committee’s (IOC) international competitors to design the medals for the Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Video games. He went on to carry out on the opening ceremony, brilliantly recreating his personal medal design utilizing a hockey stick and a ball coated in paint.
Throughout the first week of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024, Zakea hosted his ‘Hockey in Movement’ exhibition in central Paris. Utilizing a hockey stick and ball, he paints in digital actuality, utilizing the actions of discipline hockey to create unimaginable digital sculptures, with a hockey participant and the Eiffel Tower being simply two of many great examples.
The exhibition featured a stay VR efficiency portray wherein guests have been in a position to make use of digital actuality headsets to immerse themselves within the paintings instantly after Zakea had created it.
Accepting Zakea’s variety invitation to the one-day exhibition, we caught up with him to be taught extra about his work and his deep ardour for the beliefs of the Olympic Video games.
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Hello Zakea, thanks a lot for inviting us to your exhibition and taking the time to speak to us. Are you able to inform us all about your self, please?
Zakea Web page: “So my title is Zakea Web page. I’m an artist, filmmaker and designer. For the time being, I’m in Paris through the Olympic Video games for my solo exhibition known as ‘Hockey in Movement’, which is about utilising hockey and the actions of hockey to create paintings. So it’s about sports activities and humanities and the connection between sport and artwork, particularly throughout an Olympic Video games, the place the daddy of the Olympic Video games (Pierre de Coubertin, a Parisian) expressed the significance of getting each artwork and sport as a elementary a part of the Olympic Video games. It’s additionally about not simply sport, but additionally about France, because the host nation. So we’re additionally celebrating a bit bit about French tradition. And celebrating the host nation as nicely.”
And what’s your connection to hockey?
ZP: “So I’m a former discipline hockey participant. I performed for about eight years. I performed on the Vietnam Nationwide Workforce domestically and I performed in native golf equipment in New Zealand, equivalent to Harbour Metropolis Hockey Membership (in Wellington). It’s been an enormous ardour all through my entire life. And it’s introduced me many completely satisfied reminiscences and introduced me into some superb communities. So, it’s been a really particular a part of my life.”
And clearly, we’re right here in Paris for the Olympic Video games. You’ve bought an Olympic connection your self with the Youth Olympics. Are you able to inform us a bit bit extra about that, please?
ZP: “My dream was to play hockey for New Zealand to get Olympic medal, however steadily I began creating paintings and utilising discipline hockey in my efficiency work. My aim modified after I would begin to give attention to arts and I wished to carry out on the opening ceremony of the Olympic Video games, utilizing discipline hockey to create artwork. And I had the chance to carry out on the opening ceremony of the Youth Olympic Video games in Lausanne in 2020. And it was a portray of the medal I designed for the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Video games, as I gained a world design competitors. The medal was known as ‘Magnificence and Range’, which was impressed by a quote from American poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou. She spoke concerning the significance of range, bringing collectively nations and other people from all completely different locations, which is what the Olympic Video games and Youth Olympic Video games are all about.”
Lastly, you’re planning on going to the Yves-du-Manoir Hockey Stadium to see the Paris 2024 Olympic hockey within the coming days. Are you excited?
ZP: “I’m actually excited. I haven’t been to an Olympic discipline hockey occasion earlier than. I’ve been to the Youth Olympics, however not the massive stage so I’m actually wanting ahead to seeing it. Additionally, the truth that it’s in a historic stadium, the identical stadium that held the Olympic Video games opening ceremony final time, in 1924, so I’m actually wanting ahead to only being there, being a part of it and checking all of it out.”
To be taught extra concerning the artwork of Zakea Web page, click on right here.
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