DIRECTED RANDOMNESS PROJECT
This dream like series of about 50 intimate and mysterious drawings explores the relationship between chaos and order, highlighting a process of “Directed randomness” that uses randomness and the subconscious as a creative tool, echoing an interior process of control and letting go.
Following meditation, randomness is the formal starting point for experimenting with color, pigment and water. This intuitive action is followed by influencing the drying rate of water with an experimental drying technique that becomes a drawing tool in the final composition.
The drawing consists of both unpredictable subconscious actions and controlled activities, proposing a new relationship with no hierarchy between these two life forces.
Inspired by the spiritual dimension of determinism, kinesthetic calligraphy and stochastic art, the boundaries between the sacred and the profane are explored using intuitive and symbolic language. The use of gold refers to the sacred arts of enlightenment and my past studies of miniature painting in India.
Here are 2 interviews with Paula Marvelly from the Culturium and Samantha Deman from Art he’d medias regarding this project.
Press on the project:
Webinar (11 Mai 2021) -teaser
One question and one answer about the art project “Directed Randomness”, from a webinar with the artist Tal Waldman. Interviewed about her work by the journalist Elèonore Blanc from the ‘L’officiel des galeries et musées” and organized by Residence galerie Biarritz , where an exhibition is held in mai 2021. For the full interview https://youtu.be/JqV9g54jVcA
L’officiel des galeries et musées (5 Mai 2021) – interview by Eléonore Blanc
“Les-coulisses de la creation de Tal Waldman”
L’officiel des galeries et musées by Eléonore Blanc (16 April 2021)
“La quête intérieure de Tal Waldman “
Artsixmic (28 April 2021) by Jean Marc Lebeaupin
“Hasard Dirigé -interview Tal Waldman”
Culturium (3 Mai 2020) – by Paula Marvelly
‘Tal Waldman Directed Randomness – Such stuff as dreams are made on’
https://www.theculturium.com/tal-waldman-directed-randomness/
Art Hebdo Media (11 October 2019) by Samantha Daman
‘between control and letting go with Tal Waldman’
https://www.artshebdomedias.com/article/entre-controle-et-lacher-prise-avec-tal-waldman/
Civilisation Remains I -Paris 2019-Ink, pigments on Wenzhou paper- 78x63cm encadré
Dream I -Paris 2018-Ink, pigments on Wenzhou paper- 63x53cm encadré
Hèrmes -Paris 2017-Ink, pigments on Wenzhou paper- 63x53cm encadré
Power -Paris 2018-Ink, pigments on Wenzhou paper- 63x53cm encadré
Interconnectivity -Paris 2017-Ink, pigments on Wenzhou paper- 63x53cm encadré, (collection privée)
Milk&Honey -Paris 2017-Ink, pigments on Wenzhou paper- 63x53cm encadré
As above so below -Paris 2017-Ink, pigments on Wenzhou paper- 63x78cm encadré
Exposition, Gallery ‘L’entrée des artistes’, Paris, November 2019
Exhibition, Gallery Mio, Paris, September 2019
Exhibition, Gallery MDA, Paris, December 2018
Exhibition, Gallery Louchard, Paris, December 2017
PRESS
Culturium (3 Mai 2020) – by Paula Marvelly – ‘Tal Waldman Directed Randomness – Such stuff as dreams are made on’
https://www.theculturium.com/tal-waldman-directed-randomness/
“…. Tal showcases her visually stunning series, Directed Randomness (Hasard Dirigé), which explores the relationship between control and chaos, whereby transformation is an integral element of her work. In the face of worldwide dread and anxiety for the future, the beauty, sophistication and elegance of her eudaemonic designs are a much-needed panacea for us all.…..”
Interview translated Arts Hebdo Medias (11 October 2019) by Samantha Daman – ‘Between control and letting go with Tal Waldman’
https://www.artshebdomedias.com/article/entre-controle-et-lacher-prise-avec-tal-waldman/
“……After having carried out several experimental and collaborative projects alongside artisans – one of them, Mémoires brodées (2012-2016), also included the participation of a journalist and a photographer, the artist has been developing for some time a more intimate research, refocused on drawing and questioning in particular the place of hasard and the subconscious as creative tools. The result of this new exploratory work, her Hasard Directed series will be exhibited from November 6 to 30 at the gallery L’Entrée des Artistes, in Paris…”
Arts Hebdo Medias (September 2019) – ‘Tal Waldman- Directed Randomness’
https://www.artshebdomedias.com/agenda/tal-waldman-hasards-diriges/
