This is the closest I've ever come to being able to explain how I work !!

Just because

by Ernesto Neto.

Bruce Nauman's Good Boy Bad Boy

Bruce Nauman’s performances, films and video works often use language games and repetition to explore the nature of language and perception. In this work two monitors are placed at head height, so that the performers stare out directly at the viewer. Two professional actors recite the same series of one hundred phrases, beginning in a flat tone but becoming more emotional. Because they are talking at different speeds, the actors fall out of step with each other, and the continuously looped videos become out of sequence. Many of the statements imply moral judgements which, through repetition, seem increasingly threatening.


Good Boy Bad Boy  1985

Colour video and monitors
duration: 60 min., 52 sec.
installation

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=20960

Imogen Stidworthy

Imogen Stidworthy was suggested to me as an artist to look at by Graham during seminar for themes in contemporary art.


"Imogen Stidworthy’s work explores how language, perception and the act of listening underpin the creation of inter-human relationships and a sense of self, whilst questioning our complex interactions with the world through our use of language." http://www.fvu.co.uk/artists/details/imogen-stidworthy/


(Above) Imogen Stidworthy,I Hate, 2007, Mixed Media installation, Commissioned by Documenta 12, Kassel; Courtesy MuHKA (Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp

Exhibition: Imogen Stidworthy, Arnolfini, Bristol, until April 25

"In some ways the work of Imogen Stidworthy goes beyond the limits of visual art, because her main area of interest is speech.
Accent, slang and speech therapy are all explored in her new show at Arnolfini. It is the first UK survey of the Liverpool-based artist.
But despite her concern with language, Stidworthy translates well. She has built up an international reputation, and one piece in her current show was commissioned by Documenta XII, the serious-minded exhibition in Germany that only comes round every five years.
The result is called I Hate and studies the rehabilitation of a photographer who lost his voice in a cycling accident. Sessions with the therapist are filmed along with his own shots of a major scene of demolition and reconstruction, the Eurostar Terminal at St Pancras prior to November 2007."
http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/sculpture%20%26%20installation/art76807

'Scream in copper'

Scream in copper is a series of painting that I am working on the first image is a test piece and the second is a finished piece, Scream in copper untitled 1.

Studio practice up date

Today I have taken over my plans and measurements to the workshops to have my wood for my installation piece "Does this make sense" cut and rolled and set into a cylinder. This will be ready to collect next Monday afternoon. so then I just need to do some cutting out on some of the wood discs and sand and paint it up to create a metallic finish and I will be half way home on this piece.

This is a simple cardboard miniature mock up of what i intend the final pieces to look like pre-painted e.t.c

Group meeting for exhibiting and curating

Mondays meeting went well we have shared out all the roles and decided on a possible theme around colour and movement and have also chosen to us the Cadman Gallery as the space is perfect for our ideas and also lets in lots of natural light. we have spoken to one of the level 5! students who's work we all think will work well in our theme and chosen two other that Dom knows and is going to talk to. as the theme is around colour we have decided to only use a few pieces, this is also so  if the space does look overly bear then Sarah and Dom have both said they would happily have a piece of there work displayed an they both use a loot of colour in there works. I have suggested a quote by Claude Monet "Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment." "which i think we could use as the exhibition title, Colour - Obsession,Joy & Torment. I mentioned this is our last meeting but will put it forward more clearly in our next meeting.

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Aubrey Williams

I'm posting this simply because its been a long time since I've properly looked at the works of Aubrey Williams even tho he is one off my favorite painters which I still to this day find strange as I'm not usually drawn to bright works. and even tho one of my favorite pieces Atlantic Fire wouldn't be described as bright many of his other works that I love are, like Hymn to the sun IV and V.

Mary Kelly- possible inspiration

I've been looking at Mary Kelly as a possible artist for my themes in contemporary art essay but also as possible inspiration. I have looked at her work and used her as inspiration before, but I think she may be a good artist to look at with the work I'm doing know as her work often has autobiographical factors to it. I have also seen the exhibition of her works at the Whitworth gallery in Manchester.



Mary-Kelly-Projects-1973-2010-Whitworth-Art-Gallery-Manchester

This is another good website to look at for exhibiting and curating module.http://moussemagazine.it/

"SculptureCenter presents “Scene, Hold, Ballast” a two person exhibition with David Maljkovic and Lucy Skaer, artists whose work shares an engagement with sculpture, film, and distinct approaches to exhibition design. “Scene, Hold, Ballast” conceived as a dialog, will feature new works by Maljkovic and Skaer commissioned through SculptureCenter’s Artist in Residence program. The exhibition is guest curated by Fionn Meade."(From http://moussemagazine.it/)

Institut d’Art Contemporain

This is a great website for contemporary art http://www.i-ac.eu/ the current exhibition is,

JOACHIM KOESTER

OF SPIRITS AND EMPTY SPACES

EXHIBITION FROM 10 DECEMBER 2011 TO 19 FEBRUARY 2012

thought this would be a good website for all who are doing the exhibiting and curating to check out .

"The exhibition at the Institute assembles a large set of existing works, most of which were made since 2005, and new works, consisting mainly of films and photographs.

Joachim Koester has designed the exhibition like a pathway in half-light through a maze that fills all the space available. This exhibition is for him a matrix whose components (ideas, characters, subjects and emotions) weave links from one room to another."

Henri Matisse

“An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success.” 

             ~ Henri Matisse

Bill Viola - Studio Practice research

www.billviola.com


He is one of the most impressive and talented artists I've come across in a long time. I highly recommend that you get his DVDs out of the library if you are interested in video art and even if your not as they are beautifully made and very moving and emotional.

 The Crossing

 Transfiguration series

Ocean without a shore

Exhibiting and curating (1)

After Thursdays intro into exhibiting and curating I feel a bit more confident about the how thing, was happy with the group I've been put in and hopefully we will all work well together I emailed every one to suggest that it might be a good idea if we do a thematic/group show of selected works by other BA students rather then use our own work. my reasoning being that most of my group will be going to Poland and i think we would be able to create a a better exhibition with out the pressure of those going on the trip to get work finished but also it will make it easier for the two of us that isn't going to work on the exhibition while they are away. I have arranged for use to meet up on Monday at 11:30 so hopefully all will agree that this is the best way to go

Bruce Nauman

   

Happy 100th Birthday Jackson Pollock (born January 28, 1912)

Number 1, Also known as Lavender mist My Favorite Pollack painting.

Just because i thought they were really interesting

Matteo Pugliese




 

  

Christian de Vietri, Zero, 2009, powdered marble, 71” x 43” x 32”; X, 2009, bronze, 24” x 24” x 19”;LightYears, 2009, light absorbent plastic with high yield phosphorescence, 12” x 71” x 26”.

More artists I've been looking at.

Installation artist Cristina Lei Rodriguez.

 http://cristinaleirodriguez.com

Hotel Paradise, Heaven, 2nd Athens Biennale 2009, Athens, Greece




 Installation view of The Possibility of an Island


 Exhibitions at Hollywood Art and Culture Center & The Frost Art Museum at FIU 

Eathen Greenbaum

http://ethangreenbaum.com/

An autobiographical painting that I've been working on.

 Untitled 2012

Progression; Acrylic paint, acrylic medium, liquid light gel and acrylic flow improver.

May look a bit, for the lack of a better word, naff, but it is far from finished. So hopefully will improve over time.

Studio practice feedback

Over all I was very happy with the feedback I got from Steve and Anna, and agreed with all the feedback comments that i was given.

I have also been looking at instillation art/artists, these are some of the ones I've been looking at recently.

Cal Crawford a Los Angeles based video, sound and installation artist





Hilary Lloyd 
Lloyd makes images using video, slides and photography. She includes the equipment used to show these still and moving images as part of the work, which consequently inhabits space like sculpture.

Philippe Parreno

The first piece of Parrenos work i am putting on is actual colaboration between 

Philippe Parreno, Carsten Holler, Rirkrit Tiravanija.

Vicinato1995
film 16 mm noir et blanc, 16 minutes
Vicinato is a film divided into several chapters. It is based on a conversation between friends, between artists. As time goes on, the actors become older, and the directors film a different movie.







Philippe ParrenoThe Boy From Mars 2003
Installation view, Serpentine Gallery, London
© 2010 Gautier Deblonde

http://designersheirs.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/philippe-parreno-alone-together/




El sueno de una cosa, 2001
You need to click on the link and visit this page to get the full effect of this piece simply follow the link then move the cursor off and on the image.
http://www.airdeparis.com/parreno/sueno/sueno.htm

Pierre Huyghe

Huyghe is another artist i have been looking at manly due to the shear mixture of mediums he uses. some of my favourite pieces are,

I do not own Tate Modern or the Death Star, 2006 Signage



tate.org.uk




L’expedition scitillante, 2002, Act 1, Untitled (ice boat), ice, offshore radio



http://bombsite.com/issues/89/articles/2669

Les Grandes Ensembles, 1994/2001, Vitavision transferred to Digi Beta and DVD, ink on transparency, lightbox. 8 minutes.