Fine Art Blog

Our first personal project we were given was ‘Object and Select’, Personally i feel i didn’t get involved as much as i should of and my final grade didn’t reflect my potential. The brief was to collect 20 objects of your choice and to develop and create different outcomes with them all. I looked at the idea of heat and the changing in form, i used sugar which i melted down and let cool down and looked at the how it changed just from a  little heat. From there it changed to a fragile state so i decided to use destruction then recreate this flat subject into a 3d shape. 

To Start of our First Year in Fine Art we were put into groups and informed that we need to explore manchester and record our journeys. As a group we just decided to get lost as we all were unfamiliar to the area and to see what happened. We ended up in Deansgate, from there we did a couple of drawings but what we were really interested was our remembering our journey mentally. When we got back to the studio we mapped out a our own personal journey we thought we took and what places we remembered the most. The series of pictures were from the final piece we made, we also made a video filming each one of us walking through the string making different journeys. Making a journey within a journey. 

Learning Journal – New York

The Museum of Modern Art otherwise called the Moma is a host to many contemporary art pieces. Based in New York City, this diverse and bright museums entices you in just by the sheer thought of the array for artwork.  Upon walking into the gallery you are faced with a busy yet energized atmosphere with so many eager people visiting from all over the world. This was Henrik Olesen’s first solo museum exhibition titled Project 94 was held in the United States.

Walking into a huge white room you become faced with large scales of deconstructed electrical devices. The disassembled pieces are then fixed on a large Plexiglas panels suspended from the high ceiling allowing the audience to walk around and explore the pieces from various angles. Amongst the large panels were cases of another set of printed works and found objects.

What is apparent with the work of Henrik Olesen is that removing the function of the device it become lifeless, slowly becoming detached as he removes more layers. Almost destroying the very thing that allows us to connect with others, being us back to appreciating the simplicity of the items that create such complexity.

Conceptual art can often be associated with a dematerialisation of the art object, it most certainly seems that’s what Henrik’s work may be referred too as. The layout of the pieces suggests that Henrik wanted to make the device 2d so it becomes this worthless yet very detailed piece. Throughout all of his work it seems he is trying to find a balance of machine and its body. Deconstructing the outer body to reveal the main components of the machine. Just like when a problem is

How Do I Make Myself a Body? (2011), highlights what Olesen’s main concern is how is the body understood and who controls it. About Thirty computer printed print are arranged through two glass display cases, all printed over the pages of disassembled user manuals. Removing the instructions of the user manual means that the audience are left lost, replacing that with an abstract perspective on the situation.

Alongside this room filled with his work a newspapers was available involving different laws against homosexuality, which seems like a consist theme in his work. He explores the relationships before the print and the printer about with the inside of the machine and the bodied structure.

I personally feel that the work left me feeling somewhat detached however, it was needless to say his work is atheistically pleasing. However, considerably difficult to see what his thoughts are behind all of his work.

Walking through the museum I stumbled upon Marisa merz who work was aesthetically pleasing. Looking at the geometric structure made with copper wire, gold leaf on clay and steel explored the ideas of fragile materials being manipulated and constructed. Maybe what merz was trying to achieve is a natural contrasting against the manmade items to create such a neutral feel to the piece. Although I believe that this is a strong piece I would question merz decision to make it such a flat construction. I believe it would have been a much stronger is maybe she would up hung the piece allowing the audience to become involved and get up close and explore.

alecshao:

Tony Orrico, Penwald Drawings, 2010

“A series of bilateral drawings in which the artist explores the use of his body as a tool of measurement to inscribe geometries through movement and course”

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