Jeremy Geddes And The Cosmonauts
Jeremy Geddes, an accomplished artist from Australia, is working on a series of cosmonauts that has me wishing for a modern, minimally-decorated living space so that I may grace my walls with his work.
The White Cosmonaut
Whether they’re suspended in monochrome space, seemingly ascending with flocks of doves, or floating across barren cityscapes, these cosmonauts’ head-to-toe space armor makes them into blank representations of ourselves. Almost any emotion can be projected into these paintings: is the cosmonaut doing a happy air dance, or is he dead in his suit? Or maybe they’re just awesome space people, placed into aesthetically-pleasing, universally-appealing settings.
Heat Death
OK, the title of the piece above leaves less to the imagination, but I prefer to think of him merrily romping through the empty, radioactive streets, enjoying the lack of gravity. Geddes has consistently said that he wants these pieces to raise questions, rather than answer them, which is precisely what makes me love them more each time I look. Whatever the case may be, this series is gorgeous beyond belief.
The Red Cosmonaut
There are more, bigger cosmonauts on Geddes’ website. Click the jump for two more images here.
April 28th, 2010 at 7:48 am
Hearttttttt.
April 28th, 2010 at 7:57 am
lovely, only wish I had the cash to buy some prints.
April 28th, 2010 at 9:40 am
Me too, Andy. Very worth saving up for, I think!
April 28th, 2010 at 11:41 am
Beautiful, thank you for sharing.
April 28th, 2010 at 6:34 pm
Reminds me of the opening for Enki Bilal’s Nikopol.
April 29th, 2010 at 1:04 am
Wow. Wish I could afford the large version of White Cosmonaut. It’d look incredible above my desk… sigh.
April 29th, 2010 at 4:30 am
Oh dear gwad ! They’re all so gorgeous, I start saving right now! And his other painting are as beautiful. Thanks for charing
April 29th, 2010 at 10:26 pm
I keep thinking of the Astronaut intro to Heavy Metal when I see these. That’s a good thing for me. These capture a much different mood but a similar sense of putting these explorers into a different element. The Red Cosmonaut is the most arresting though and it looks like it should be an album cover to a 70’s prog-rock band.
On a technical level I LOVE the fact he got the cosmonaut to look like he’s part of the environment. Sometimes in work like this it feels like the subject is only part of the environment in spirit. That takes a lot more work to pull off than some give credit for. Heat Death is particularly impressive with that.
April 29th, 2010 at 11:27 pm
” he wants these pieces to raise questions, rather than answer them”
That is the way to go. Love hes work!
April 30th, 2010 at 10:39 am
Similar to the psychedelic space traveller from the cover of the second Kula Shaker album. Maybe the album cover is the same cosmonaut after a weekend at a rave!
http://musikarma.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/album-peasants-pigs-astronauts.jpg
May 7th, 2010 at 6:57 am
Hacked an ish of Hi Fructose to biuts in order to hang some of his pics. The full version of the first pic there, in particular.
July 3rd, 2010 at 3:10 pm
If anyone wantingto sell a print of Heat Death, or knows anyone would you please, please have them email me? I know its a long shot but I gotta try. [email protected]