Slinkachu Livres

He's like Banksy -- but not as big...They're Not Pets, Susan,' says a stern father who has just shot a bumblebee, its wings sparkling in the evening sunlight; a lone office worker, less than an inch high, looks out over the river in his lunch break, 'Dreaming of Packing it all In'; and a tiny couple share a 'Last Kiss' against the soft neon lights of the city at midnight. Mixing sharp humour with a delicious edge of melancholy, Little People in the City brings together the collected photographs of Slinkachu, a street-artist who for several years has been leaving little hand-painted people in the bustling city to fend for themselves, waiting to be discovered. . . 'Oddly enough, even when you know they are just hand-painted figurines, you can't help but feel that their plights convey something of our own fears about being lost and vulnerable in a big, bad city.' The Times

The sequel to the international bestseller 'Little People in the City'

My 'Little People Project' started in 2006. It involves the remodelling and painting of miniature model train set characters, which I then place and leave on the street. It is both a street art installation project and a photography project. The street-based side of my work plays with the notion of surprise and I aim to encourage city-dwellers to be more aware of their surroundings. The scenes I set up, more evident through the photography, and the titles I give these scenes aim to reflect the loneliness and melancholy of living in a big city, almost being lost and overwhelmed. But underneath this, there is always some humour. I want people to be able to empathise with the tiny people in my works.Special Dutch edition, bilingual, with brandnew afterword, contains some photographs from the Little People in the City book, but also plenty of new photgraphs and works made in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Enjoy.

Nach der Stadt erobern die kleinen Leute nun die weite Welt. Slinkachu nimmt uns mit auf eine unvergessliche Reise rund um den Globus. Die Faszination ist wie beim Vorgänger riesig, denn auf paradoxe Weise wird die Verkleinerung zur Vergrößerung. Das fesselnde Perspektivspiel Slinkachus schärft die Wahrnehmung unserer vielseitigen Welt und unserer Rolle darin. Nach dem durchschlagenden Erfolg von „Kleine Leute in der großen Stadt“ ist „Kleine Leute in der weiten Welt“ ein Muss für alle Fans. „Mag sein, die irritierend emotionale Wirkung von Slinkachus Kunst entsteht aus deren Genauigkeit. Der Mikrokosmos entspricht psychologisch so haargenau unserer Welt. Nur dass durch die veränderten Größenverhältnisse Neues entsteht: Chancen, Gefahren vor allem. Was da passiert, ist zuweilen reichlich bizarr, und nicht immer ist Slinkachu zimperlich - der Bursche ist schließlich Brite. (...) Slinkachu erzählt mit seinen Bildern wunderbar traurige Geschichten von Scheitern, Einsamkeit, vom Übersehenwerden.“