For my further artistic practice I would like research the accelerating effect the implementation of digital technology and algorithms has on an individual.
For my further artistic practice I would like research the accelerating effect the implementation of digital technology and algorithms has on an individual.
Artworks and Processes
Artworks and Processes
Artworks and Processes
Artworks and Processes
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Contexts that inform my research
a list of artists, writers and thinkers relevant to my practice
Unit 2 – Events and Exhibitions
Chisenhale Gallery – Rindon Johnson
Chisenhale Gallery presents Law of Large Numbers: Our Selves, a new commission and first solo exhibition in a UK institution by Berlin-based artist Rindon Johnson.
The immersive projection shows the site called North Atlantic ‘cold blob’, or the ‘North Atlantic warming hole’,which is the area where the mass of water is a stubborn cool patch that, despite the surrounding water’s rising temperature, stays cold. A direct result of the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet due to climate change, the cooler waters in this area interfere with the Gulf Stream current’s regulation of oceanic and land temperatures from the east coast of North America to the west coast of Europe.
I was very fascinated by the pull that this large projection radiated. At first I thought it was a huge screen because the resolution was so sharp. It was very exciting to be between the sky and the water and to let the water ebb towards me or away from me. This exhibition gave me a new perspective on how digital works can be brought into real space in order to expand it.
05.02.22
Ginny on Frederick – Tom Worsfold
Tom Worsfold makes pictures of everyday life, whether in memory or imagined and embraces painting’s ability to accommodate disparate forms, styles and references – seeing the medium as a model for interdisciplinary thinking and cultural dialogue.
I visited this exhibition with some of my classmates and we were very intrigued by Tom's sophisticated and delicate techniques of handling color in so many layers. The small works we saw were exhibited in a very tiny and clinical looking gallery space which enhanced their technical look. We were very lucky that the gallery owner himself was present and we asked him about the artists processes and his experiences running a gallery space and working for the white cube gallery.
12.02.22
Goldsmiths – Testament
Up to 50 entries were presented in a publication alongside the exhibition, Testament. This exhibition showed proposals for monuments by 50 international artists who were all exploring questions around history, memory and identity.
Inspired by the previous exhibition at Ginny on Frederick we decided visited this group show at Goldsmiths University. The works I was fascinated the most by were the digital pieces that were being shown on large monitors on the upper floor. One was taking the viewer on a walk through a digital and posthuman environment that was held completely in blue colours and depicted a kind of dreamscape to hide away from the real world. The other one was showing a camera perspective flying in and out of collaged environments. I think the artist was using photogrammetry to scan places and to later enlarge them to build this unseen spaces for the humans to sit and walk in.
12.02.22
Gallery tour with Katie, Ruohan and Perry
I've included a few photos here giving an overview of the many galleries we visited near Greenwich park. These photos are a selection of my favorites. I like how textures and shading have been experimented with and fantastical beings take shape.
12.02.22
Studiovisit – Mark Fairnington + galleries
Visiting Mark's studio and talking to him was very enriching and insightful. What I definitely want to adopt in my studio in the future is its variable construction of the hand rest when painting details. His tips on painting materials and the insights into his experiences with gallery owners, collectors and collections have enabled a deeper insight into his working methods as a painter. I think we were all able to take a lot away from his structured and organized studio setup and think about future studio structures.
The galleries that we subsequently visited showed again the different forms painting can take and how different installations have a direct influence on the way the works are viewed and read.
24.03
No Rules – An Abstract Art Symposium
"A really good image looks as if its happened all at one. It´s an immediate image"
– Helen Frankenthaler
printmaking and painting / immersive works / woodcuts / fluid shapes of voids / overcoming the rules of medium / playing with what is hidden and revealed / capture the essence of a thing / creative control and the workshop team / (Suzanne Boorsch) / (Katie Pratt) the bureaucracy of freedom / intuition and recognising the magic in the process / Pratt: "I use rules to give me a structure in which I can be free." / the use of a system / (Rachel Jones) oil pastels / abstraction of the figure and isolating parts of the body / the interior landscape / (Crystal Fischetti) talk about the gesture and application of paint / (Melissa Gordon) liquidity / the notion of liquidity in abstract art in connection to the history of women in art / "a refusal to become solid" / Amy Sillman and the gestures of the in-between.
26.03
UAL Chelsea – xhibit
This was an event where the basics of a sustainable creative practice were being discussed and practicing artists and curator were invited to given an insight into their individual approach. They talked about their struggles of keeping a balance between their working hours and their rest and about being brave and just putting yourself out there to pitch for ne clients or open up a studio space in an empty office building.
30.03.22
Tate Britain
After the xhibit event I went to see Tate Britains permanent collection together with Katie.
I was completely unprepared to see Hew Lockes huge installation of "The Procession" that had been commissioned by the Tate itself. Locke says about his motifs behind this installation that he wanted to try mix ideas of attraction and discomfort.
He uses vivid colours to attract the viewer but lets his sculptures pose in strange poses that scare the viewer through their surreality. The procession feels like a movement frozen in time and if you get closer to one specific figure you notice that you are being watched by another from the distance. It really had a significant impact on me and I am still fascinated by the way he uses body language and masks to radiate and evoke feelings in the viewer.
We continued our visit and found that we could participate in a small workshop the museum had set up, providing easels papers and pencils. We sat down for the last 30 minutes to sketch quickly before the museum closed.
30.03
Hayward – Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child
When I visited this exhibition I was very impressed by the way Luoise suggests the body and turns it into material. Her objects made of fabric, wire and wood show the body in its mutation. What I found visually very exciting, among other things, was a sculpture that formed the upper body of a woman from networked wires. This work made me feel as I would be able to see through the skin into the body because she had skillfully covered the wires with some kind of pantyhose-like material.
I also really liked her subtle series of embroideries that were placed on the first floor next to the female figure in the cage. After visiting the exhibition, I thought a lot about how to turn the body into a material and how to break up its surface in different ways.
01.04.22
RA – Francis Bacon: Man and Beast
When I visited the exhibition about Francis Bacon, I was very surprised at how different his works affected me in person. I had seen many online before but standing in front of them was a different experience altogether. The thick layering of some brushstrokes really surprised me. Many areas looked very rough and impulsive and the paint was smudged in crumbling layers. I was very impressed by the three-dimensional effect of the colours. In conversations with my fellow students, we realised how much Bacon's application of paint had changed over the course of his active years. For us it seemed as if his works were becoming more and more graphic and minimal and the application of paint was transforming from impasto to powdery. The visual volume of the images was very taxing and the rooms were painted in sombre colours making the images seem very heavy and menacing.
01.04.22
White Cube Gallery and other galleries nearby
After seeing the Louise Bourgeois and Francis Bacon exhibitions we had a look at the permanent collection of the RA, the white cube gallery nearby and several other galleries in the area. It was interesting to experience the differences between those gallery in style, architecture and selling prices.
01.04.22
Tate Modern – Surrealism Beyond Borders
"Surrealism is not a style – but a state of mind. It aims to subvert reality. To find the uncanny in the everyday. To tap into our unconscious desires and bring dreams to life. And for many artists around the world, it has been a way to challenge authority and imagine a new world." (Tate) This exhibition has taken a different focus on telling the stories of surrealism. It showed the positions of surrealist across the world over a span of 50 years. It celebrated Surrealism as a movement that united artists from centres as diverse as Buenos Aires, Cairo, Lisbon, Mexico City, Prague, Seoul, and Tokyo.
What I really enjoyed about this new way of showing surrealist works was that they were not focusing on the works that were rated as the most popular but really tried to show the diversity within the movement. Showing sculptures and video works next to photographies and surreal objects of the time. I think it made me think about the boundlessness of art and the freedom to depict whatever you feel like depicting.
02.04.22
London Art Fair
The London Art Fair was very useful in giving me a brief overview of the interests and subject areas of different galleries. I went the last day and I could see the red dots everywhere showing what had and hadn't sold. Visually, this fair was very enriching and exciting for me. I was happy to see many figurative works and was able to add a lot to my list of interesting artists and the galleries that represent them.
22.04.22
Affordable Art Fair
Many works had noticeable thick layers of paint and the texture caught the viewer's eye as they walked by. For me it looks more like a cake icing or dough, but maybe it also appeals because people today want something haptic.
Selected pictures:
Preston Paperboy (Tap Galleries), prints by BATIK (Galerie Art), Robbert Fortgens (Ronen Art Gallery) thick layers of paint, Jeff Gwegan (Galerie Claderone), Sally Minns (The Bakery) I talked to the artist about merging the figure and abstraction;
my favourite work of the fair: Mar Turquesa (20 abril), 2022, 4.100 GBP, Acrylic and Pigment on board, 170 x 170 cm, unique piece by Jaime Sicilia (Alcontardelarte)
Jackson´s Painting Prize 2022 winners: Lorena Levi, Zuzanna Pieczynska, Robert Senior, Robbie Bushe, Aidan Crotty, Haeeun Lee, Julie Karpodini, Ki Yoong, Junwei Dai, Idrak Amirli, Angelo Murphy / Portrait / Figure Category Award Winner: KI YOONG → kiyoong.com
Cass Art Prize 2022
08.05.22
London Gallery Weekend
1. Pilar Corrias - Vivien Zhang (undo, undo, undo)
2. Skarstedt exhibition
3. Thaddaeus Ropac
4. Massimodeclaro - Transferred Memories (work no day)
5. Almine Rech
6. Maximilian William
7. Alice Black
8. Edel Assanti - Underfoot
9. Sadie Coles - HQ - (Art is not human) Seth Price / Kingly Street
14.05.22
