Tutorial on monday

hi everyone hope you all had a great Easter break! time to get back to work, you prob all got the email from Ben for our tutorial time for monday but just to let you know, we're first again at 2.00pm, would be great if we could all bring in our samples/ some materials to show him :)

samples

Hi everyone, just thought i'd post some pis of a sample i've made from stips of wool, lace and cotton, I've realised i keep on using black and red on white in my work reminds me of old propaganda posters, would love to make a giant version of this. I have recently been looking at the work of Barbara Kruger, and although she may not be obviously linked as someone like boltanski her work reminded me a bit of what we want to do, she creates collages of photographs and text, creating new meaning and a narrative to found photos from mainstream magazines.

Collaborative work is like a collage, we take the best from all of us to create a new picture.

Louise de Bourgeois & Christian Boltanski

Louise de Bourgeois, "Cell XXV(The vies of the world of the Jealous Wife)."

Christian Boltanski, "Monumenta 2010"

"Louise Bourgeois and Christian Boltanski are both artists rooted in the 20th century , and their installations of 'used' clothes are indebted to the great narratives in existential, political, personal and social terms." - Textile Forum, p.30-

Second Hand - Second Life / Guerra de la Paz

One thing that I am interested in their work , they use second hand clothing to create their sculptures. Taking second hand clothes from different countries to make one sculpture which has individual life stories.

Their work is quite similar to our work. We use second hand clothes and wasting ropes that we take from our home...and make one piece of work.

Christian Boltanski

Christian Boltanski has used textiles in the form of clothing in his work.

The Artist explores space, and the memories attatched to clothing creating a monument- like pile of clothing, makes me think of worn clothing, death, something collected, the grid combined with the pile is interesting.

In our work we could incorporate shreads of old clothing, creating something new from something that is no longer needed or has worn out.

magazines in the library

and also Textile Forum is great for textile art!

Fiber art

Look at this magazine in the library: www.fiberarts.com

Eva Hesse - Rope Piece

I have just found Eva's Rope Piece on the internet. :b

Man Ray, Enough Rope, 1944

Sketch (Paint software) of idea...

This is what it might look like:

OutsideGallery

Rough final ideas

From our Gallery and museum visit we we're inspired to explore the concept of bringing the 'outside' into the gallery space further, we have thought about the 'tug of war' idea of using rope to travel into and out of the space and to include participation through creation of the rope structure.

We could use materials that have connotations of the 'outside' such as natural materials like leaves and branches or cloth that has sentimental value.

Also to allow the viewer to become a participant in making will be interesing to see, The final product will be made by the participants as well as ourselves and the act of making part of what we will show as our piece.

Some pictures from The Natural History Museum...

Mixed media artwork, Floral/Pattern/Fabric

Just another idea going back to the pattern/floral art idea. I was thinking because my preference is painting, you lot like flowers/patterns we could combine the too a mixed media artwork of painting and textured surfaces.

Something like this... but with fabrics etc... what you think?

The image is from www.minimalmagic.co.uk

Modern Contemporary Art.

Hey guys, we got to meet up and just go over our presentation :s its on Monday and were first.

Exploring space

To add on to Khuyens post, I find the idea of exploring the space very interesting. To explore the meaning attatched to the inside space v the outside has connotations of restriction, boundaries to freedoom. Yesterday we were talking about boundaries like gates and walls, Khuyen came up with the idea of the 'Tug of War' to symbolise a war between the inside and outside space. I think this will be great for our piece, it has a child-like quality as a game but the serious issue of war, It is open to participation from the inside and the outside,
we will need to start making some examples:),


Will be uploading our V&A/ Natural history museum trip pics soon once I figure out how to :S

Also it would be nice to organise another gallery trip, any sugesstions of where to go/ meet?

Final Piece.

Hey guys,

We have a new addition to our group, Daniel. Welcome!

These are just a few ideas me and Jasmine thought about:

• Making it a performance piece,
• Hanging it somewhere on the building and bringing it into the gallery
• Having the piece outside,
• etc...

These are just a few suggestions that we think may engage the audience more, also the idea of opposites because we are displaying are work outside rather than inside?

I was thinking maybe shadows? Black vs White.

Or, using are body to create a flower?

Dressing all black (leotard) even our faces, and let us be the shadows... so when someone is walking pass, we become their shadow either on the wall or the floor.

The idea of a performance piece may benefit us because it is much more simple and does not require us to make a final piece, because i know all of us may have a lot of other work to do.

Our lecture tutor Ben suggested that whatever we choose to do, we need to make samples/try outs and keeping it simple would be best.

Jasmine, if i missed anything out you can add it on =)

Check it out...

http://www.cmybacon.com/2010/09/page/2/

When shall we go on a trip to Hauser and Wirth gallery?

There is an exhibition of Louise Bourgeois and Tracey emin (fabric works)!

It would be great to see their works.

When will you be free??!

HORSES RUNNING ENDLESSLY-Gabriel Orozco

As Marta said it would be great if we offer a different perspective to people and it reminded me of above work. The original chess has one king &queen and others but his work has only knights. With no capture king so the conventional goal of the game has disappeared. This is just an example of negative...I think we are interested in fabric art and pattern stuff..? It would be cool if we make our work by using fabric. What you think? :D

Oh, have you guys been to his exhibition where is at Tate Modern? You should visit there, it is so cooool!

Negative meanings...

I found this picture on the internet,


'These flowers look so real from a distance that you probably can’t tell that they are hand-felted from wool. They are beautifully hand-crafted by Netherlands based artist Reya Veltman.'
It made me think more conceptually about what we want to achieve and when Khuyen shared those photos and their negatives and it made me wonder about how we could incorporate the issue of something being a 'negative' of something else. Like this flowers in the picture are facing downward, not growing in the direction we assume them to be.
If we could surprise people like this with our own final work I think that would be great, to offer a different perspective to what they see on a daily basis.
If this sounds good to everyone I think it would work in our favor to have a multi-layer of meanings/theories/concepts. But obviously not so much that we don't even remember what they are =P

Fabric + Flowers

A small conclusion from me from this point,
The final work seems to be going in the direction of 3d-flower-negatives-print.
I think if we can put this altogether and create something that incorporates that it would look really nice.
But obviously it is going to change along the way and hopefully we can further narrow it down and find something that we can do in the time and have any materials we need to do it.
I think if we go to the gallery it seems like a great chance for us to take photos of what we like and dislike.
I also am excited at the use of material that includes fabric.
This handmade fabric looks really great
I can't help thinking of what it would look like much bigger, maybe as tall as up to the knees. Might look a bit like a flower armchair =p
Just throwing out another option here, although we would have to end up doing a lot of physical folding etc and it might cost a lot for anything too big.

Our groups name....

Any ideas to what you want our group to be called???

Flower/ Pattern Based Theme?

It seems like we are going into a pattern/flower based theme??

I came across this and thought it was quiet cool =D

Reach for Light: a Skateboard Flower Sculpture

  

Reach for Light is a Skateboard Flower Sculpture made by Ted Hunter form Roarockit Skateboard Co. The flower petal designs are actually printed using photo’s of real tulip petals. It was shown on 2005 at the Wood Turning Center in Philadelphia.

The flower

William Morris

These ideas are great! To link back to flowers, I'm almost obsessed with flowers and nature, some artists you may be interested to look at are Georgia o keefe, william morris, cy twombly, Bougeois...

I was thinking of going on a trip to Hauser and Wirth gallery to see a collaboration of Louise Bourgeois and Tracey emin. Their work is quite simmilar, you can tell Emin is inspired by Bourgeois and it would be interesting to see a collaboration and its outcome.

Guess which is which, one is Emin one is Bourgeois :)

Louise Bourgeois 'The Fabric Works' is also a great book, I find bourgeois' use of fabric and drawing very interesting and her use of the flower form. I think theres a book on her flower drawings at the whitechappel gallery, i'll try to find out.

Louise Bourgeois

I like the form of the flower because it symbolises so much, love, loss, life... and each flower has its own connotations and a story attatched.

Simple yet Detailed

Thinking more about flowers/plants.
I think this print by Isabella Hessel called White Baroque Flower is really interesting.
It is simple because of it's monochrome nature but it is still quite detailed. I don't know how everyone else feels about print making/graphic work but I think just this piece is simple yet elegant and although it is 2D I think it can inform us quite a lot about the delicate and complicated nature of a flower yet we can still make it look simple.

Cast vs Imprint?

I really like the 'cast' ideas.
This is my favourite from Whiteread's work above, where the cast of a bookshelf is made.
I think a cast of something natural like a flower could work really well since with limited time we should stick to simple and small scale.
I think this artwork of a flower imprint is quite simple yet effective, it reminds me of shells on the beach you find in stone.
Maybe some 'pressing' into clay/plaster with natural plants?

Just some ideas...

I took a few random pictures and wanted to show the negative side to it, since am doing sculpture and installation it reminded me of the opposites of a cast? And I like the negatives more than the original picture.

NEGATIVES:                                   ORIGINAL:

 

 

 

So I was thinking maybe make casts? By dipping the original into plaster so everything is covered and crack small parts to show a bit of the inside piece? 

I like Rachel Whiteread's work: Embankment.

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/unileverseries/interactives/index2.html

We do however have to keep in mind that we don't have a lot of time to make something as a group, so keeping it simple may be better, so this idea might be time consuming?

Hope to see some of your ideas =]