Snapshots from the studio of where I left things

Do you suppose I could call this a piece?

Full or is it fool of good intentions

Planned to do so much before I went to Berlin and I haven't even packed! Above are a few photos of how I have left the corner in Studio 19....

Off to Berlin...

I am off to Berlin for a few days so I have a gap in producing my site place and context piece. Today I filled a corner with a baby installation looking at representing things that have interested me and tomorrow will revisit before I go away. What I have tried to do is to show a part of the route I have undertaken with this project. I'll call it my clubfoot to tulips in quite a few degrees of separation! Trying to show that there is a transparency of image in the Mackintosh building as the building has its own impact on work. Latterly, I have been interested in swaping in juxtaposition the floor with ceiling using walls and corners and some images of such I have put on fabric. In the end the only photographic image i put in my installation corner was of my hand ( I took a detour to look at Jean Cocteau and the DaDa movement). This followed on from an initial interest in Art Povera I especially liked a quote that ".... art is long dead one might as well chant qua qua...thinking what is art just gets in the way. " I looked at Mario Mertz and Janis Kounellis and Carl Andre with his " ...men climb mountains because they exist and men make art because it doesn't exist" statement. En route i considered Mark Wallinger and his poster displayed on the wall of the Ingleby gallery in Edinburgh: MARK WALLINGER IS INNOCENT. I posed the question IS CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH INNOCENT? So above are some photos that helped me.

Pedro Cabrita Reis - obrigado

Last year I came across Pedro Cabrito Reis a portugese Sculptor and on google today i translated a bit of his biography...google told me to search for a better translation :
Pedro Cabrita Reis was born in Lisbon in 1956. Having received wide international recognition, his work is crucial for the understanding of the new paradigm in sculpture that has come about since the middle of the 1980s. Having received wide international recognition, his work is crucial for the understanding of the new paradigm in sculpture that has come about since the middle of the 1980s.
I think you can see why!
Now I need to search for the new paradigm in sculpture!
Bit like the meaning of life.
Anyway reminded me of a holiday in Portugal where it was impossible to learn the language and I had to try and buy some batteries so I speant the whole holiday asking for quattro piege si tu parie not sure about the spelling but i did get the batteries by learning this parrot fashion...difficult language!
So yer man Padro Cabrito Reis check out the link and I attach a photo to whet your appetite whatever the new paradigm is I like it!

Alex Hartley

Working primarily with photography

often incorporating it into sculpture and installation Hartley's work addresses complicated and sometimes contradictory attitudes toward the built and natural environments. Encounters with buildings are grounded by conventions and expectations but Hartley shows us new ways of physically experiencing and thinking about our constructed surroundings – through surface and line,scale and materials,locations and contexts. His practice is wide ranging,comprising wall-based sculptural photographic compositions,room-sized architectural installations and, more recently,unique photographic works with sculptural elements inserted as low-relief into the surfaces of large-scale colour prints. Uniting these works is an investigation of modern architecture and the ways in which it is conceived and presented. Often destabilising ideas of 'iconic' architecture, Hartley's practice allows room for multiple perceptions of and uses for architecture.

Looking at art and artists....

I saw a wooden sculpture made by Conrad Shawcross but I know nothing about him so I looked him up on google where I found quite a lot. I am interested in his working with engineering science and art.

Location Location Location

I have been interested while researching about Charles Rennie Mackintosh looking at the man reflected against the backdrop of his work and looking at the Glasgow Art School Building in particular. Especially when I read he had a club foot and some believe he may have had Asperger's Syndrome which is an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) Don't know why this interested me just does.

I was intrigued that due to financial hardship, the Mackintoshes moved in 1923 to the south of France, at Port Vendres. Something to bare in mind in this time of credit crunch. During this peaceful phase of his life, Charles Rennie Mackintosh created a large portfolio of architecture and landscape watercolour paintings.

This has taken me to consider his watercolours and those of flowers. I took a brief wander through the Hunterian Museum to look at these.

Furry is good but colour can be better....

I love David Batchelor's work ever since I saw his exhibition in 2007 at the Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh and today I was revisiting it to be inspired by his use of colour.
He is concerned above all things with colour, a sheer delight in the use of many brilliant tones and hues using a variety of fluorescent plastic objects - clothes pegs, fly-swatters, buckets, spades, children's toys, empty bottles of household products - found in pound shops and markets in cities the world over. He combines these everyday items with a range of light-industrial materials: steel shelving, commercial lightboxes, neon tubing, warehouse dollies, acrylics, plastics and so on to produce extraordinary installations which exalt the ordinary and celebrate the lurid and trashy. I like them and he writes a mean book too check out Chromophobia publisherd by Reaktion.

Furry

Day One...a new blog has just begun...why?

Site and Place and Context... |I saw this on my way home the other evening so it felt like a good place to start a new blog researching into the current project about site - place - context
So somewhere over the rainbow is where I begin