i’ve also seen a couple of art works in Vyner street lately that have stuck in my mind. I discovered Richard Moon at Madder gallery. He makes work which appears narrative but explains nothing (his words not mine). i loved the etching head under heals very much. There was another painting in another gallery of two people entwined by their hair which was really compelling and linked in with my feelings about my work. I’ll have to go back to vyner street to remember the name of the gallery. I’ve been thinking about people or objects linked in a poetic way.
GALLERY VISITS
It was nice to get out and about today & explore some lesser known galleries, quite by chance a came across a couple of good shows.
TinType Gallery was showing kaye Anobile ‘Simulacra’ She had made the most amazing pencil drawings on birch panel, exploring the found photograph and doppelgangers she is interested in provoking questions about identity and the other.
Aubin Gallery was next with the show smoke on the water…..“…we are reduced to an atomized pseudo-community of consumers, our sensibilities dulled by spectacle and repetition.” Grant Kester ‘Conversation Pieces: Community and Community in Modern Art (2004)’
It appears everybody is watching, or being watched, or wants to be watched. Whether it is reality TV, CCTV, YouTube, there is a sense that life, however banal, is increasingly out there, somewhere else, deferred. As Guy Debord states in Society of the Spectacle; ‘this society which eliminates geographical distance reproduces distance internally as spectacular separation.’ Domestically, as this form of escapism becomes increasingly ocular, pleasure has become voyeuristic, while escapism itself is now an aspiration to a state of being, further increasing our sense of displacement and separation.
http://www.aubingallery.com/Exhibition/11
Martin Arnold
In our lecture today by Franis Summers, which by the way was really interesting but so full of new ideas to me that it made my head spin. He showed us martin Arnold’s ‘piece touchee’. I loved it, it is one of those rare, clever art films that captivates you and sticks in your mind, up there with Christian Marclay ‘The clock’ and Guy Sherwin’s ‘Paper Landscape’. He then presented a paper he had written, which I must read again once its published, on the film. The film is an 18 sec appropriation of a love moment where a man walks into a room to a waiting woman and gives her a kiss. The artist has manipulated the footage forwards and backwards for 16 minutes to produce the most amaizing ‘between’ moments of a man and a woman, there is a build up to a frenzied pattered action, at once hysterical and ordered, a pull between man and woman, first this way, then that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9JJc7TEsZI&feature…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6RZi_Nzyho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8svkK7d7sY
Emily Allchurch
I went to the Artist Talk by Emily Allchurch and Laura Noble at the Daiwa anglo-japanese Foundation 17 th feb.
Emily Allchurch makes digital photographic paintings using hundreds of photographs to recreate masterpieces for modern times. The talk was fascinating discovering how she’d painstakingly worked on each piece for a month and hearing of the little references that she inserted into the work. Thinking about a lecture we had at college today and the notion from George Agambo of the untimliness of history, i.e. things from the past that can be used contemporarily today. I see this remodeling and juxtaposition of history and present in Emily’s work, she is bowing to the past and exposing the present, there is no nostalgia in her work.
http://www.emilyallchurch.com/emily-allchurch.html
LATEST EXPERIMENT
thinking about colour too……
This work has been chosen by the curator Juan Bolivar for our interim show at the Nunnery. I have developed it slightly and used pure coulour sections for the ‘pie chart’ effect and i’m thinking of the way we are considered as just a demographic by government and other organisations when working out policy and law change and implication etc. (when googling demographic pie chart I found this funny statistic ‘Pie chart of supermarket express line demographic’ for people with less than 10 items, where by far the largest pie section was people with 11 items.
http://www.inquisitr.com/43079/pie-chart-of-supermarket-express-line-demographic/)
