mardi 24 novembre 2009
mercredi 18 novembre 2009
mardi 13 octobre 2009
ROCKMAGAZINE - 2005 - about 25000 copies in France.
ROCK MAGAZINE – 2005 – about 25 000 copies.
Mark Maggiori the sound and the image.
Singer of Pleymo band, Mark Maggiori is also a graphic designer and a video clip producer who is more and more requested. Face to face avec the most rocky student from the Penninghen 2000 year.
ROCK MAG : How old were you when you started drawing and how did you succeed to follow graphic classes?
I was drawing randomly, for me, on notebooks edges in middle school. It was not really elaborated but it happened that I had some vague desires seeing that the drawing teacher used to say to my mom “he should do drawing”. Actually I did not care a lot. Then, after I graduated from High School, I was more into music, but I did not want to study musicology because I thought it was useless … I wanted to do Rock’n’roll! My uncle, who is a graphic designer, told me then to go to the graphics arts graduate school (the ESAG, also known under the name of Penninghen, Ed), he said that it was a good school. So, I went there and it occurred that it really got me into it. I discovered my abilities in drawing, painting, etc. Which is good, it is that it is a general-interest school, you don’t have any specialization nor option, so you cover a little of everything, such as photography, web design but also illustration or typography. It is really well-rounded and it is especially on this point that it is difficult.
Penninghen is known for being a demanding school. How did you do to combine classes with music?
I organized myself pretty well … When I was in 8th grade, which is the hardest because you have a thesis to present; I was on tour on “Keçkispasse”? At that time, we usually performed on Friday and Saturday. As I did not have class on Friday afternoon, I left to meet the others by train, everywhere in France, and after the concert I took a night train back to school to be in class on Saturday morning; then I was meeting them again at night. Finally, I spent 3-4 crazy months like that, dealing with classes and the tour at the same time. Actually, when I started school I had more or less quit music, I was telling myself that it would never work out. At that time, I was with Tangerine. Then, it happened that we set up Pleymo band the summer following my first year of school and it worked out better than we thought … So I kept on with Pleymo.
And your thesis’ topic, what was it about?
It was the trailer of a movie I had written. As I could not entirely do it within 3 months, I wrote the story, I worked on the concept, the storyboard, the film sets, and I did the trailer where you see a two-minute coloured animation. It was a kind of mix between Disney’s style things and manga …
And after school, what was your first professional experience as a graphic designer?
It was for a studio which is called Attitude. They came to see me at my thesis’ presentation and they offered me a job right away. At that time, they were about to set up realistic 3D characters systems. I had to create the feature design of a virtual test girl who was called Eve. And then, just after that, I worked for them again on NTM band’s video clip called the clash, with a friend from school whose name is Bertrand Gatignol ( he drew the CD cover of “Keçkispasse”, Ed). They offered us to do the designs, we did pencil drawings and we modelled the characters with a team. At some point, It was even about us to produce it, but it did not happen because we were too young … It had been only 2 months that I had left school! Finally, they put a guy on it with whom we fist fought a little because we had created the concept, we had a specific idea about it and he interpreted it in his way, and it was not really like we wanted. Anyway, I think NTM was very happy and every time I see Kool Shen again, he always talks to me about it … So maybe they liked it! (Laughter)
Thereafter, you worked on Watcha’s CD cover or on Noisy Fate but also for Patricia kaas or Louis Chedid’s video clip. How do you consider your work when you deal with people who stand away from your universe?
It is the same thing. If they ask for me, it is because they liked something I did. So, every time it is an opportunity to test things, bring his own style. It is also interesting to succeed to melt into something. We used to do that all the time at school: to try to change style for each different subject, to try to be different and especially not get always stuck in the same things.
Between Pleymo and your director and graphic designer’s plans, do you still have the time to stir your curiosity, to go to see exhibitions, that kind of stuff?
I try my best to watch movies that must be seen. All the things that I like, a lot of American stuff because there are often beautiful pictures. I also watch everything that is about manga, things which come from Asia, I remain pretty well informed about all of that.
Then, regarding exhibitions, I often go at the Orsay Museum. I go there occasionally, I pass quiet, to look at one or two paintings in details; I stick myself on it to see how it is painted. Recently, I also went to the advertisement museum to see an exhibition about psychedelic posters that was not bad at all. There were short movies where you could see Jimi Hendrix in the recording studio, etc. It was cool. I felt like doing a psychedelic imagery for Pleymo. But well, at the same time, I do not know if I would really go away on that, for now, I am craving too much, I am going into too many things! Now, I am really into Buddhism and all of that...
Yesterday, at the Fnac store, I also saw a book with an old American dream imagery, like in Betty d’Helmet’s CD cover atmosphere. A book full of the American society photographies from the 60’s and technicolor stuff that advocates “American happiness”! So, it is swarming everywhere. Now, we are already working with the band and before everything we are trying to compose songs …
I think that once I will start to put words together, I will begin to brainstorm myself on the concept of the new album.
To conclude, what are your influences, the artists that you fancy?
Actually, I like things really varied and diverse. Regarding guys who do manga, I am a total fan of Koji Morimoto, who directed Beyond On Animatrix. There is also another guy that rocks, a Japanese guy that I discovered a while ago, it is Tanaka Tatsuyuki, who actually works at the studio 4°C with Morimoto. And as for him, the drawings that he does, it is completely insane. For me, in that kind of stuff, he is really the best of all! By far! After, in relation to painting, there is Singer Sergeant and Joaquin Sorolla …
There is a painting of him at the Orsay Museum, which is not the most beautiful by the way, but it is the only one that we have in France.
Pleymo news.
Still as active, Mark works among others on a new movie plan with Benoit Poher from Kyo band and should soon get down to the direction of Mélatonine’s first video clip, which the shooting will be in Bulgaria with a hospital set. At the same time, Pleymo works on the next album expected in January 2006 : “We already have songs, so now we did team works. We all move forward on the titles. Right now, I am even working with Davy and Fred, Benoit and Erik are together and Franck is patching up in his corner. We all set up an appointment on March 15th to listen to everything we worked on and from there, we are going to rehearse all together on what we recorded on the computer. It is going to be quiet open because, on one hand we want something really harsh, and on the other hand we want a symphony orchestra ! So, the only solution, it is maybe to record two albums ! We will see …”
By then, the live DVD recorded at the “Zénith de Paris” should be out around April-May, laced with archives from the band going back to they beginnings until today.
vendredi 25 septembre 2009
CV - NOVEMBER 2009
Music video
. Charlie Winston. I love your smile, 2009, featuring famous actress Audrey Tautou.
. Pascal Obispo. Idéaliste, 2009
. Pascal Obispo. Drapeau, 2009
. Pierre Guimard. Les beaux souvenirs ne meurent jamais,2009
. Adam Vadel. Laisse aller, 2009
. Charlie Winston. Like a Hobo, 2009
. Tunisiano. Je porte plainte. 2008
. Tunisiano. Le regard des gens. 2008
. Empyr. New day. 2008
. Soha. Programmes courts France2. 2008
. Soha. Tourbillon. 2007
. Thierry Amiel. De la haut. 2007
. Live aids. L'or de nos vies. 2007
. Pleymo. L'instinct et l'envie. 2007
. Vegastar. Maître de ma vie. 2006
. Minimum Serious. Goodbye California. 2006
. Mayane. L'homme en noir. 2006
. Pierre Guimard. Stephanie. 2006
. Pleymo. Adrenaline. 2006
. Laurent Wolf. Another Brick. 2006
. Kyo. Ce soir. 2005
. Melatonine. Prozak. 2005
. Brett. Indochine cover. 2005
. Kyo. Qui je suis?. 2005
. Kyo. Contact. 2004
. Pleymo. On ne changera rien. 2004
. Pleymo. Modaddiction. 2004
. Kyo. Je saigne. 2003
. Pleymo. Divine Excuse. 2003
. Kyo. Je cours. 2003
. Kyo. Tout envoyer en l'air. 2003
. Patricia Kaas. Où sont les hommes. 2003
. Louis Chedid. Au jour le jour. 2003
. Mayane. Comme ci comme ça. 2002
. Pleymo. New Wave. 2002
. NTM. Le clash (D.A). 2000
Feature Film
In writing :
. Johnny Christ / Shooting May 2010
TV programm
In production :
Art director and concept designer :
. Anatane and the children of Okura. (Animation 26X26) France 2. 2009
Short film
. Thelma. USA. 2007 (award "best film 2008" at Paristoutcourt film festival)
. Sad day. 2004
. Pascal Obsipo. Pop. 2001 (animation)
Book
. In writing : Soleils Mauves. Release 2010
. Helmet Boy.
Release march 2007. HugoRoman/ France.
Commercial
. L'Oreal. Eau jeune (2005)
. Côte d'or. (2005)
Album cover
. Anahy. 2008
. Sinclair. Morphologique . 2006
. Pleymo. Alphabet Prison . 2006
. Pierre Guimard. Stéphanie. 2006
. Kyo. 300 lésions 2005
. Pleymo. Rock. 2004
. Kyo. Le chemin. 2003
. Mayane. Ce monde ailleurs. 2002
. Funky Collector. Serie. 2000
. Hubert Felix Thiéfaine. Best of
. Watcha. Veliki Circus
. Pleymo. Keçkispasse?
Diplôme
Ecole superieur d’Arts Graphiques. Juin 2000
. Pascal Obispo. Idéaliste, 2009
. Pascal Obispo. Drapeau, 2009
. Pierre Guimard. Les beaux souvenirs ne meurent jamais,2009
. Adam Vadel. Laisse aller, 2009
. Charlie Winston. Like a Hobo, 2009
. Tunisiano. Je porte plainte. 2008
. Tunisiano. Le regard des gens. 2008
. Empyr. New day. 2008
. Soha. Programmes courts France2. 2008
. Soha. Tourbillon. 2007
. Thierry Amiel. De la haut. 2007
. Live aids. L'or de nos vies. 2007
. Pleymo. L'instinct et l'envie. 2007
. Vegastar. Maître de ma vie. 2006
. Minimum Serious. Goodbye California. 2006
. Mayane. L'homme en noir. 2006
. Pierre Guimard. Stephanie. 2006
. Pleymo. Adrenaline. 2006
. Laurent Wolf. Another Brick. 2006
. Kyo. Ce soir. 2005
. Melatonine. Prozak. 2005
. Brett. Indochine cover. 2005
. Kyo. Qui je suis?. 2005
. Kyo. Contact. 2004
. Pleymo. On ne changera rien. 2004
. Pleymo. Modaddiction. 2004
. Kyo. Je saigne. 2003
. Pleymo. Divine Excuse. 2003
. Kyo. Je cours. 2003
. Kyo. Tout envoyer en l'air. 2003
. Patricia Kaas. Où sont les hommes. 2003
. Louis Chedid. Au jour le jour. 2003
. Mayane. Comme ci comme ça. 2002
. Pleymo. New Wave. 2002
. NTM. Le clash (D.A). 2000
Feature Film
In writing :
. Johnny Christ / Shooting May 2010
TV programm
In production :
Art director and concept designer :
. Anatane and the children of Okura. (Animation 26X26) France 2. 2009
Short film
. Thelma. USA. 2007 (award "best film 2008" at Paristoutcourt film festival)
. Sad day. 2004
. Pascal Obsipo. Pop. 2001 (animation)
Book
. In writing : Soleils Mauves. Release 2010
. Helmet Boy.
Release march 2007. HugoRoman/ France.
Commercial
. L'Oreal. Eau jeune (2005)
. Côte d'or. (2005)
Album cover
. Anahy. 2008
. Sinclair. Morphologique . 2006
. Pleymo. Alphabet Prison . 2006
. Pierre Guimard. Stéphanie. 2006
. Kyo. 300 lésions 2005
. Pleymo. Rock. 2004
. Kyo. Le chemin. 2003
. Mayane. Ce monde ailleurs. 2002
. Funky Collector. Serie. 2000
. Hubert Felix Thiéfaine. Best of
. Watcha. Veliki Circus
. Pleymo. Keçkispasse?
Diplôme
Ecole superieur d’Arts Graphiques. Juin 2000
jeudi 24 septembre 2009
BIOGRAPHY
MARK MAGGIORI
Mark Maggiori was born on June 16th 1977 in the town of Fontainebleau, about an hour south of Paris, in the middle of the forest.
He is an artist with many skills. He is a photographer, painter, writer, and also a film-maker with his own recognizable and unique style. He makes you plunge in his universe wich is both dream-like and realistic.
Also a musician, he was the lead singer of the rock-metal band « Pleymo » (1998-2007), with which he recorded 5 albums on the music label Epic. From that musical experience, he’ll manage to shift the energy he had on stage into a lively creativity.
Mark has bred his own style throughout the years, using his time and his environment an its colors to perfect his art.
In 1996, he decides to enter an art school, without much of a knowledge about the artistic world. Through a hard-working discipline, he manages to come up to his teachers’ expectations . It is by passion that he’s going to throw his whole body and soul in the learning of the History of art. He makes his hand on making copies of famous paintings, as part of the formation he follows.
After graduating in 2000, he begins to work on numerous music videos, and on an anime TV show called « the children of Okura ». It is after the broadcast of that TV show’s presentation file on the web, that he finds himself being the object of plagiarism reproaches and accusations made on the internet and within the french animation environment.
Fact is, he used a Miyazaki backdrop to illustrate one of his pictures. That scandal really struck Mark, and it has been a switch to him. From that day on, he decided to become his own and only reference, despite his lack of confidence, and his artistic youth.
In 2004, he starts painting with oilpaint, portraying friends, and faces his inner self and his potential that is still yet to come. Step by step, drowned in his studio’s shade, he learns to form his own eye and perception.
In 2005, he spreads his search to image and photography, through his band’s tours and the music videos he directs. That quest leads him through the U.S.A, Cuba, Russia, Japan. Back home, he transcribes his pictures in paintings in his parisian studio.
So it’s on the field that he eventually finds the themes that really fit his mind and really resemble him, such as american suburbs’/projects’ culture, drenched in the skateboard atmosphere which he practiced his whole youth. It’s like a rebirth to him, when he sets his eyes on the U.S. for real, the one he dreamed about, staring pictures and videos of it, when he was a kid. It is that universe that he sets on paper through his first novel « Helmet boy », published in 2007 by « Hugo and Cie». That novel won the prestigious Bourgogne’s litterary price the next year. That same year he also directs a short movie « Thelma », the sad story of a fat girl in the Los Angeles suburb, acruel and sensuel portrait of a bored youth, which will be rewarded by the 2008 best movie award during the « Paris Tout Court » festival.
Deeply inspired by the subcultures, and attracted to social minorities and the notion of « community », he leads his artistic stand towards themes often linked to some form of marginalization, a marginalization which he persist to sublimate , giving these unconventional peoples a rough beauty.
He has the will to show and underline the inner personality of men and women he runs into by chance during his wanderings. Through the potography, he isolates these characters out their context, and pull out of it an image fitting the emblematic characters that are scattered across his universe.
Pictures or paintings are tools that allow him to memorialize strangers and to raise them to an iconoclast stage. « I bring people home with me. They are features I meet for 10 minutes, only for the time of a picture, and whom will never leave me again ».
Mark Maggiori’s universe becomes more and more refined. He tries to make his artistic approach more and more unique, even if he agrees being eternally unsatisfied… which is maybe what drives him and makes him never to stop working.
Mark Maggiori was born on June 16th 1977 in the town of Fontainebleau, about an hour south of Paris, in the middle of the forest.
He is an artist with many skills. He is a photographer, painter, writer, and also a film-maker with his own recognizable and unique style. He makes you plunge in his universe wich is both dream-like and realistic.
Also a musician, he was the lead singer of the rock-metal band « Pleymo » (1998-2007), with which he recorded 5 albums on the music label Epic. From that musical experience, he’ll manage to shift the energy he had on stage into a lively creativity.
Mark has bred his own style throughout the years, using his time and his environment an its colors to perfect his art.
In 1996, he decides to enter an art school, without much of a knowledge about the artistic world. Through a hard-working discipline, he manages to come up to his teachers’ expectations . It is by passion that he’s going to throw his whole body and soul in the learning of the History of art. He makes his hand on making copies of famous paintings, as part of the formation he follows.
After graduating in 2000, he begins to work on numerous music videos, and on an anime TV show called « the children of Okura ». It is after the broadcast of that TV show’s presentation file on the web, that he finds himself being the object of plagiarism reproaches and accusations made on the internet and within the french animation environment.
Fact is, he used a Miyazaki backdrop to illustrate one of his pictures. That scandal really struck Mark, and it has been a switch to him. From that day on, he decided to become his own and only reference, despite his lack of confidence, and his artistic youth.
In 2004, he starts painting with oilpaint, portraying friends, and faces his inner self and his potential that is still yet to come. Step by step, drowned in his studio’s shade, he learns to form his own eye and perception.
In 2005, he spreads his search to image and photography, through his band’s tours and the music videos he directs. That quest leads him through the U.S.A, Cuba, Russia, Japan. Back home, he transcribes his pictures in paintings in his parisian studio.
So it’s on the field that he eventually finds the themes that really fit his mind and really resemble him, such as american suburbs’/projects’ culture, drenched in the skateboard atmosphere which he practiced his whole youth. It’s like a rebirth to him, when he sets his eyes on the U.S. for real, the one he dreamed about, staring pictures and videos of it, when he was a kid. It is that universe that he sets on paper through his first novel « Helmet boy », published in 2007 by « Hugo and Cie». That novel won the prestigious Bourgogne’s litterary price the next year. That same year he also directs a short movie « Thelma », the sad story of a fat girl in the Los Angeles suburb, acruel and sensuel portrait of a bored youth, which will be rewarded by the 2008 best movie award during the « Paris Tout Court » festival.
Deeply inspired by the subcultures, and attracted to social minorities and the notion of « community », he leads his artistic stand towards themes often linked to some form of marginalization, a marginalization which he persist to sublimate , giving these unconventional peoples a rough beauty.
He has the will to show and underline the inner personality of men and women he runs into by chance during his wanderings. Through the potography, he isolates these characters out their context, and pull out of it an image fitting the emblematic characters that are scattered across his universe.
Pictures or paintings are tools that allow him to memorialize strangers and to raise them to an iconoclast stage. « I bring people home with me. They are features I meet for 10 minutes, only for the time of a picture, and whom will never leave me again ».
Mark Maggiori’s universe becomes more and more refined. He tries to make his artistic approach more and more unique, even if he agrees being eternally unsatisfied… which is maybe what drives him and makes him never to stop working.
mercredi 23 septembre 2009
mercredi 16 septembre 2009
jeudi 10 septembre 2009
CINEMA - WEB - 2008
2008 Paris tout court festival.
The Paris tout court festival rewarded this year Mark Maggiori for his movie Thelma. Shot in Los Angeles’suburbs with a 35mm, the 12-minute short length film tells the story of an obese young girl and her confrontation with the young people of her neighbourhood. Cruel, sweet and sensitive at the same time, it is a rough portrait without any concession from an idle generation. Mark Maggiori, who was the past singer of Pleymo rock band, is from now on devoted body and soul to the image. Photography, painting, video, he also exhibits his photography works taken a little everywhere while the band was on tour.
Texas, Russia, Louisiana, Cuba, he describes with compassion a certain group of the impoverish population. Thelma reflects those shots, rough and magic.
The movie is in English. Must be seen.
PHOTO MAGAZINE WEB - 2008
Former singer of Pleymo band, Maggiori, nowadays, goes on the other side of the camera. He just won the jury’s prize at the 2008 Paris tout court festival.
JALOUSE MAGAZINE - 2008 - 20 000 copies in France
JALOUSE MAGAZINE – 2007 – 20 000 copies in France.
KIDS THAT KILL
Pleymo is a music band which is into skateboarding. His leader, Mark Maggiori, 30 years old, is also the author of a first novel which is rather rock’n’roll. Context :
Los angeles’outskirts, at the end of the 80’s.
A kid gang who are not even of age, saw terror there, hangs out with the underworld and touch the bottom.
The story is told in a flashback form, by two forty-year-olds who belonged to the gang.
Be careful, Tarentino atmosphere!
STUDIO MAGAZINE - 2009 - about 30 000 copies in France
STUDIO MAGAZINE – about 30 000 copies in France.
CHARLIE WINSTON AND MARK MAGGIORI
The director Mark Maggiori knows well the big American spaces and the pictures of across the Atlantic. It is in that state of mind that he took with him the English singer Charlie Winston for its first clip “Like a Hobo”.
The video clip shows Charlie as a hobo, kind of a roving beggar, who travels non-stop with a friend. They busk and sing in villages. The clip begins like a western worthy of the biggest ones and ends with a “hat tricker” show. It is actually in movie theaters …
PHOTO magazine.about 30 000 copies in France
ALLIGATORS BETWEEN TEXAS AND LOUISIANE – 2008
About
Former singer of Pleymo metal band, Mark Maggiori dedicates his actual time to video clip productions ( NTM, Obispo, Kaas), painting and photography. Provided with a medium format Pentacon camera, he recently travelled through the south of the United States looking for people who survived from hurricane Katrina. He met there happy and broken souls, exhausted faces and street kids. Those pictures will be exhibited in the trendy area of Paris called the “Marais”, from June 10th to September 1st.
“Alligators Riversides” Basia Embiricos gallery, 14, Jardins St Paul street, 75004, Paris. Until September 1st.
NUMERO - 2009 - about 50 000 copies in France.
NUMERO – 2009
CULTURE INC-
About 50 000 copies in France;
In February 1999, when “Numero” magazine was launched, Google was only a small browser lost among others. Since then, the development of communication tools has contributed to the exchange of ideas and to the media coverage all over the world. Especially, the one of cultures said contemporaries ( design, architecture, conceptual art …). Given media coverage but also radically overwhelmed and democratized, it is, nowadays, goods consumed in large numbers. This huge canvas allows everybody to have access to some artists and to give themselves a panoramic view of arts. For this issue, we shed lights on the work of Mark Maggiori, more known as the singer of Pleymo band. Mark Maggiori produced a large number of video clips and recently a short length film that attracted considerable attention, Thelma …
ELLE MAGAZINE FRANCE - 2006 - about 400 000 copies in France
IF YOU LIKE L.A
Elle magazine – 2006- 400 000 copies
A teenager, lost and charismatic, got into a gang of kids that kill.
It is hard to believe the author of this whodunit is the singer of a French rock band which has metal tendencies, called Pleymo; as he seems to know his topic from the inside. It is a gloomy and harrowing book, which marked the birth of a writer.
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