Experimenting with Space
I am becoming more and more interested in the work of Katharina Grosse. I have mentioned her work before in a previous post, but as the piece I am working on at the moment was directly inspired by her practice I thought it would be a good idea to mention her again.
Katharina Grosse’s work looks at exploring the relationship between paint and space. The main driving point behind her work is that paint should not be confined to the restrictions of the architecture that surrounds it. Consequently her work is comprised mainly of installations that are spray painted with bright abstract colours.
This gave me the idea of looking at space in a different way within my own work. As of now I have been exploring the relationship between space and colour on a two dimensional surface.
What would happen if I if I took that surface and made it three dimensional?
It was very important for me that in this experiment I took a two dimensional surface and made it three dimensional instead of taking an already three dimensional object and painting onto that. This is because I was curious to see what spatial effects I could create upon a surface that was acting like a two dimensional surface (ie it would be hung on a wall like a canvas) but is actually three dimensional.
I am curious to see what can be achieved in terms of space with this surface, particularly to see how the colours react as a whole on three dimensional surface as opposed to a two.
I started to construct my ‘three dimensional canvas’ by assembling eight 10 × 8inch boards in top of a larger one- giving me the base I need to produce a variety of gradients between the boards. I eventually found a layout I thought work, and began to construct and prime my “canvas”.
