Mere days before Game of Thrones‘ season 6 premiere, HBO is launching Art the Throne, an artistic celebration of some of the show’s most memorable moments and character.
HBO asked five artists to create a piece of art reinterpreting some aspect of the show that they love. The art installations will debut at a launch party in New York City on April 20. In the meantime, the artists have released video diaries introducing themselves and their exhibition pieces and discussing their thought process behind their creations.
For Art the Throne, Cyrcle co-founders, Davey Detail and David “Rabi” Torres, are constructing a giant upside crown with the poem, “Rise, claim, peace, reign, fear, wall, war fall” written inside. Their piece is titled, “Over Throne” and is intended to reflect the show’s unpredictable power shifts. “That relates a lot to the game of thrones, the way you’ve seen so much change,” Rabi explained.
Muralist, Triston Eaton, is combining his love for nerd fantasy and “radical juxtapositions of styles and elements of inspirations” in his homage to Daenerys Targaryen. “I’m really rooting for her. She could be the one. She could be the righteous later,” he said.
Illustrator, Marcus Chin, is creating a drawing of the “unconventional,” “vulnerable” Brienne of Tarth that utilizes “patterns, and motifs and prints that [are] unexpected.” I think that in the drawings that I create I can manifest this part of the individual that sort of exists inside of the person,” Chin said.
Jeff Nishinaka is working on a two-dimensional paper statue of the Night King’s “Come at me, bro” moment from “Hardhome.” “The reason why I chose this particular scene is it really does have a huge emotional impact … it’s kind of one of those, ‘Oh my God’ moments,” he said.
Ben Gibson, Ashley Walker and Becky Joy of Pop Chart Lab are fans of Game of Thrones because it epitomizes the marriage of “rich content” and “visual, emotional content” that they value in art. They’re working on a 12-foot tall glowing red glass manuscript featuring an engraved Direwolf head to commemorate the Red Wedding. “The writers of Game of Thrones are fearless and surprising and we want to have some of that emotional impact with our art too,” Gibson said.
Hodor
What the fuck is this bullshit? Give me my mixtapes already!
Is this the first year they didn’t do Catch the Throne?
All i see is WALL FALL!
James Hibberd mentions in this podcast that GoT filmed in Canada (at 9 minutes):
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/04/15/game-thrones-ew-podcast
Totally off topic but Jimmy Kimmel seems to have some GOT day or something on 4/19 – Alfie Allen, Iwan Rheon, Michael McElhatton
in his homage to Daenerys Targaryen. “I’m really rooting for her. She could be the one. She could be the righteous later,” he said.
LOL, OK.
http://www.ign.com/videos/2016/04/15/game-of-thrones-daniel-portman-season-6-interview
What’s Pod and Brienne’s next move?
Stumbled upon these Red carpet gems
1. A shoddy attempt by the cast to convince us of Jon’s fate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JEV1bNOU0A
2. Game of butts 😀 Finn’s reaction to Daario’s rear nearly choked me on my water & failed attempts to identify Nikolai’s assets are just beautifully hilarious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH4HYVhw0mk
One more. At 0:36 mark…. Oh Nikolai! So close! 😀 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liPx1Lke8z0
Totally off topic but the innanet synopsis of 601 changed to:
The fate of Jon Snow is revealed; Daenerys meets a strong man; Cersei sees her daughter again.
First sentence previously read “john snow is dead” am I right?
I will be amazed at the day a post doesn’t contain like five different “OT” things within the first ten posts.
They did some direwolf stuff in Canada, yes.
Watchers of no Trailers,
That’s the description they’ve had all along for On Demand or some other areas so I think they’re just making things line up now. Or trying to pretend there’s some mystery. Jon is dead…for now.
Has anyone been watching or taking note of the GoT Power Play episodes? I haven’t been able to watch most, but the bits I caught were quite interesting. Almost every scene seems to relate to my hopes and dreams about S6. Lots of Gendry, Hound, etc, etc, etc.
Rich Stark,
They are really bad liars … specially the actress that plays Gilly … and Emilia and Nikolaj … They must be tired of it…
Sue the Fury,
Thanks Sue. Love this site btw…
Two dimensional?
I want to punch Cyrcle in their faces. I literally hate everything about them.
Didn’t think much of the first video but the others look interesting. Thanks for putting them up.
Barely OT-
Is anyone else worried that S6 trailer nights king doesn’t look remotely as badass as hardhome/craster’s kid nights king?
It’s weird that he looks different in the same trailer even. In Trailer #2 he looks good when he’s on horseback with his Horsemen, but then just a few scenes kater2 he looks totally different when they’re approaching the fire. His face looks like a completely different person.
The Night’s King’s face and body is heavily modified by CG. Some of his scenes in the trailer already have the CG, others don’t. As simple as that.
Hey, Pop Chart Lab the “whole Stark family” wasn’t killed at the Red Wedding. Four of them are still alive.
Dany FTW!
By the way I think that guy is misquoted in the OP. Pretty sure he says “She could be the one. She could be the righteous Leader.”
In art, 2D refers to works that aren’t part of 3D (sculptural and installation)- painting, drawing, and as mentioned, certain styles of relief work.
It irks me when people over exaggerate that. In fact, the Starks have main characters alive then any other House.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEQ_XLLQdvb/
8 days HYPE!!!!!!
Yep, a couple of prize dickheads who think they are so ‘cool and hip’. I fucking hate people like that. Their artwork is a pile of shit also which is not surprising seeing they’re a couple of assholes 😀
I’m really looking forward to seeing the paper art complete.
I had a similar reaction, though it falls short of wanting to hurt them! Their idea of what constitutes ‘art’ just seems sort of like a glorified kindergarten project. And using neon signs to convey the flavor of a medieval fantasy saga? Really?
Firannion,
I’m from Detroit. Our default reaction to everything short of falling in love is “punch someone.”
A bit out of contex, but is the countdown to season 6 broken?
It looks like your site is broken. Did someone forget to pay the web hosting company?
1. The site hasn’t been updated in several days.
2. The countdown banner, as I write, says 8 days 11 hours 6 minutes until the premiere, but today is April 21 and the time is 8:53 a.m., so 3 days 12 hours 7 minutes until the premiere.
Anyone home? Been checking for some new stuff but haven’t had anything posted in awhile
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