Foundry Artists
I have been enjoying watching some of the work going through the foundry, and have started getting to know the different artists works.
One in particular I really like is the work of Dana – in fact, Yves Dana, a swiss sculptor:
Today as I was in the metal workshop he game in to work on one of his pieces, and I was brave enough to introduce myself. My piece was nearly finished, so he looked at it and said he thought it was really interesting. It was very exciting. Tonight I googled him, and saw some even more interesting work on his website, and I’m even more excited to see he has a show in Pietrasanta opening on Saturday. I wonder how done it is here to just turn up to a private view…
Another one that has some interesting work is Vangi – there is currently an amazingly exciting piece of a motobiker, in which he has stretched, enlarged and doubled up the right hand to show it moving – something which could be crass maybe – but which has been amazingly executed.
I haven’t found a good site of Vangi’s work but here is one in Italian that has a few interesting ones: Guiliano Vangi
http://www.scultura-italiana.com/Biografie/Vangi%20Giuliano.htm
Maria was telling me that there is a Vangi museum in Japan as he has a fan there who has set up a wonderful sculpture park dedicated just to Vangi.
So if you can read japanese:
Dinner
I just had a nice dinner with Julia the american artist. Unfortunately her other 2 artist friends cancelled on her, but we had a nice pizza at a very quiet Il Vatican, and had long discussions about art, transformation of consciousness, states of flow, craft vs concept, material and others.
She told me her art bible (that she re-reads regularly) is Henri – the Art Spirit.
We also agreed to swap art books, she is reading Ansel Adams and Judy Chicago (a feminist artists who I’ve never heard of…) – and I have Raymond Mason to lend. I also found some other books I had brought with me to read, including Bouriault’s Relational Aesthetics which I’d forgotten about – might have to read that…
New Studio
Tomorrow I’m off to Marcello Giorgi’s studio to start my enlargement and learn how to use a Pantograph, so must go to bed so I’m fresh for it… I’m very excited. Will be very exciting understanding my little maquette as well. This afternoon I tidied up my place in the wax room as I’m probably not going to be at the foundry for about a week, was a bit sad. A slight foretaster of the fact that I’ll have to go for good in about 6 weeks
Yes – I’m already half way through! :(
