‘Raking the Leaves in the Wind‘ is an exhibition by Berlin-based Canadian artists Julien Valléè,
Eve Duhamel and Brent Wadden. The exhibition features playful graphics, drawings, paintings,
animations and paper installations. Julien Valée works in a wide range of fields such as motion graphics, print design, art installations as well as film and design for the music industry. His style is both bright and fun. Earlier this year he created a video pitch in collaboration with Dixon-Baxi for MTV One consisting of paper installations.
Here at HC2, we’ve featured some pretty cool paper artists before, but none so grandiose and colourful. Jenn Stark was featured some time last year, and although her vibrant paper-based sculptures were the talk of our town for some time, this new exhibit is definitely a breathe of fresh air in the paper game. Regardless, both of these acts put my Kindergarten creations to bed and party the night away. Although beautiful, I bet they have a blast tearing these things up after an exhibit or run is over. Can you can’t spell horribly painful paper cut without shirtless belly flop.
