presentation/ representation (part 2)

presentation / representation
This exhibition showed "a cross-section of contemporary German photographic practice as photography evolves from an analogue to a digital medium." [AF2009] naturaly with any cross section exibition you find alot of the artists to be

Laurenz Berges took pictures of interiors of abandoned buildings. capturing muted colours, decay as detail the natural reclaiming the space.

My least favourite of the exibition was claus goedickie the photo that was a severe abomination of using photoshop to make what looked like a patterned rug with pictures inlaid.

Heedi Specker was fascinated by a Swede, and was inspired by her uniqueness. This was the most coherent and visually interesting of the exhibition. I was drawn in by the soft pastel palette depicted in the first image showing a light blue in the ice isolated by white with a small fissure running through the middle the next image kept the gaps with a hand made quilt full of reds yellows blues and texture with trees in the background. each image seemed to be connected by a feature or shape in the last picture

Wiebeke Loeper upon first look it looks like a series of photos starting with a town, it then moves onto buildings being built the sea and old people and decayed buildings
at the end of the row is a small a4 letter which basically depicts the photo essays content a story through pictures, there was somewhat of a cultural barrier to understanding the story with just the pictures the leaving of the young people was symbolised by a picture of the sea something I don't associate with leaving due to the close proximity of the ocean and the idea of sailing away off to another land via sea.

This was a 2 part exhibition and it would have been interesting to see the works from part one to contrast to this selection.

The bath street gallery was a adequately sized exhibition space stained concrete floors white walled, with a large glass window entrance and a set of stairs to the main area the layout was in a L which creates a very linear approach to moving through the space.

Pictures from Bath St Gallery & HEIDI SPECKER

Art crazy nation

Judit and I went along to the Little Artists show Art Crazy Nation.
It was a lego homage to famous works of art. Each peice was a legonised version of a work and had a minifig (a lego person figure for the unintiated) of the artist. which was cute, It was amusing seeing how they characatured the features of the artists within the limits of the lego parts catalougue. like warhol had the iconic white hair. each sculpture was intriguing you could see all the descisions the artists took in representing the works. and how you could recognise the works aswell as individual peices of lego.

A almost game like aspect that Judit pointed out was the difference between the pictures and how the figures were aranged in their current state, it added a futher degree of playfulness the the exibition. and made you question was it the playfull nature of the artists, or did they just get set up slightly different by the gallery staff? it also alludes to the imagination these small structures of moulded plastic in our childhood create elaborate sets, structures and plotlines.

my favourites leaned heavily to the works that I had knoledge about in their "real" non lego form

The SEED Gallery is a small gallery in newmarket it has the conventional white walls and varnised wooden floor, the works were displayed on shelves on the walls and pedatals in the center of the room, the photographic prints were suspended by bulldog clips.











glossy pictures from Auckland Festival & SEED gallery
artist website: http://www.littleartist.co.uk/

The Theraputic Hour: Art History Explained. and Mrkusich (draft this is currently a massive jumbelled mess to be tidyied)

showed the progressive ocsilation between different art historians about

context, modern relevance, asthetics

diference between female perspecive in art and male
adjusting your work to fit into a gallery

each object has a artistic value, tools had craftsmen individual forms, signatures

many had tried to rank art throught history, by tecnical skill and its perceved beatuy based upon this. others stresses the importance of the mood, feelings social situation, and intent of the artist

meaning and whether the ideas are independant of the historians take upon the peice,
its like mushroom spore structures a ever expanding where the historians take a new meaning from the work and then future historians take a new take on the older historians take

Art historians reject the previous movements ideas on art and rehash a version of the old. it travels along a few years and then someone descides to try and push the historical practice back in the other direction.

The preformace was a woman in scholarly robes on stilts with binders stacked high. the entire lecture was in the format of a school like class. refrences to homework, a multichoise quiz on the back of the information booklet. the whole presentation was in rhyme. which was juxtaposed with the fast flurry of ideas and beliefs and heavy laden with artistic jargon, the whole preformance ran at a trepid pace it was like someone had sat had sat on the remote and it was was running at two times speed, a slideshow played in the background with the artworks reflective of the periods being disscussed
there almost was a symbolisim with the stilts with the historian teetering back and fowards, side to side, much like the retrospective views as the timeline traveled along.

The preformance happened in the Gus Fisher Gallery quite a interesting building the outside has no windows at the front facade a detailed brickstructure a large wall of orange. inside it was a intricate white entrance way wide open with a large stained glass window in the ceiling. the space the preformance happened in was a room full of Milan Mrkusich much to the squeamish excitement of Judit.

mostly consists of geometric shapes a and painted texture
of the ones that I found interesting was a red painting with a grey border it had little variations in the thickness of the red and the combonation of these made it appear to bulge out like a pin cushion.

There was one that looked like it was a reflection the left side had intricate brush strokes with semi random placement and a semi textured strong blue line down the right side, where the second canvas starts a almost reflection the blue line is thinner in width and has faded to a light blue the black has faded to almost grey. I likend it to a photgraph of a scene it only captures a fraction of the detail and beauty present in the original scene.

the last one was called blue square it had blue along the base orange triangle in the bottom right corner a blue sky and a blue square suspended at the top of the picture it didn't feel like it would be able to stay suspended after the moment depicted in the painting
reminded me of a old 8bit game like mario.