April – Art as Inquiry

 

Crit 1. TE, Kristina, Veronica, Winston, Kevin, Christina. in no particular order.

 

 

 

 

 

• what am I trying to achieve with showing so many works that are very similar, what is the logic?
• how are the works linked? are we looking at a sequence or is it operating as a pattern? or puzzle?
• is this one work or multiple single works? what is the potential for the works to stand on their own?
• standing back a grid emerges, the spaces between become interesting, how important is that grid or gap?
• composition of the works has connotations of a storyboard, an unfolding action that is happening.
• work has the qualities or potential to be a collage.
• there is a suggestion in the work that a kind of substitute stretcher is still visible, i.e. the stretcher has become the work? or in in the work as content not support?.
• the creasing of the paper (particularly the newspaper works) is interesting and the paper is more immediate!
• References to Malevich are inherently problematic.
• chronology, as in revealing of the studio process! 

1. consider less is more
2. titles may help the viewer to read the work or at least not fall into a cliche
3. consider rearranging the composition to groups of 4 x 3 or 3 x 3

 

Crit 2. AB, Hikaru, Paula, Mish, Olly, Alex. in no particular order.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• what is the intention or purpose of using newspaper? adds content?
• pursuit of purity or perfection?
• what do the gaps signify? the ones taken away NOW appear more interesting, is this because the were excluded therefore there must be something more to them or are they actually more interesting then the work shown???
• trace vs uniform.
• there is a revealing of the painterly hand in the imperfect technique.
• what is REAL? how to define it…
• what does the black do?
• the grid can be seen as a modernist.
• what parameters did I use? try time constraints as well as material parameters.

1. try not sticking to the parameters.
2. be careful of the statement vs the work.
3. have a look at Wade Guyton, someone who may interest you.

Summary:

First off, between crit 1 and 2 I made changes to the statement, in hindsight this was to the detriment of the work. However I had some good feedback from both crit sessions and which I am now reflecting and sifting through what is important and relevant to my work now and more importantly for the July seminar.

What became clear was the extent I live the studio drives research model, the studio is where it happens for me and I just need to catch up with the work by talking to it’s intentions and position in a contemporary context.

What now?

1. continue with the paper works but look backwards to the January work, what was working there, make individual works that talk to each other?
2. consider using colour, as well as black but return to a range of shades i.e. warm vs cool blacks.
3. what about the square? Research more geometry and the theory of quantum physics? something about the space between the actual and the potential, a transitional state…

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry#/media/File:Chinese_pythagoras.jpg

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hyperbolic_triangle.svg

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/6546462/The-10-weirdest-physics-facts-from-relativity-to-quantum-physics.html.

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