Set Up Ideas
I have thought a lot recently about how I want to exhibit my work. In an ideal world I would have free reign of the studio and put up work however and wherever I wanted- but for obvious reasons this isn’t the case.
I wanted to talk a little bit about how I think I’ll layout my work (no doubt it will change when it comes time to hang) and what I hope to achieve by doing so.
Originally I wanted to have the largest back wall of my space (which is roughly 3 meters across) completely empty except for one very small painting placed in the center. I have never seen this sort of thing in a gallery environment especially when the wall in question is segregated from the other spaces due to it forming part of a cube. I think this would have been very interesting to see how the space around it would have effected how one “sees’ the painting and therefore ones reaction to it.
The cube space that I have been afforded is a perfect platform to showcase individual work- either very large or very small. Due to the viewer being segregated from every other point of the studio.
I was also toying with the idea of covering the entire cube in paint, As if it were a giant canvas. In a kind of similar way to Katharina Grosse. Except our painterly nuances would be different and as far as I am aware she has never painted all four walls of a cube.
To me the most interesting prospect for doing this would be the attack on the viewers senses. There would be nowhere to look (except for directly up) where you wouldn’t see a myriad of bright vibrant colour. I’m not sure exactly what affect this would have but all things considered I would imagine it would be very overwhelming and slightly confuse the senses.
