Thursday 15 November 2012

Research And Media

Research and Media 


The Limits of an Object: Roger Hiorns from Vera List Center on Vimeo.

He continues to re-assess his work as he creates it. He links his work with the benign and his work becomes a disinterest of industrialisation. When he shows his work he never wants to be part of the display (or be 'present' in the work), leaving it up to the gallery to put their own hand to it; this makes the piece different every time. On 'Seizure' he is interested in making a synthetic environment which he tries to induce an uncomfortable anxiety into this space. He is also interested in making a spiritual environment (as a child he was very familiar with the church because he was a choir boy) that doesn't exactly exist. Through crystallisation it becomes something else. 'Seizure' began as a proposal which was a product of a mental crisis which amplifies through the work. This space he created becomes a depressing dark mass (dangerous chemical substance) and by this making it as inhospitable as he could. While the artwork was closed-off from the world for a few months, it became the perfect ambiguous space.
 - Making an object useless. (Burring an airplane underground).
 - Taking apart an object and reassembling it in some way. (engines and brain turned to dust).
  - Making a work immortal and or ritualistic. (a piece of silver laid into a church wall owned by the 'Oxbridge ' College).
  - Claiming an environment which has been claimed by an invisible higher being. (Churches).
  - Life can change. Acting as an artist. (You can continue to live and become something else, you just act and you just live. Absorb = Make, who are you making it for? The public or yourself?)
  Foam works exuding a substance - Objects in a space exuding substance as a reflection of us, humans. Sculpt with membrane contemporary metaphor for skin.


Artist on site: Roger Hiorns on Seizure from Artangel on Vimeo.

David Bolinsky: Visualising the Wonder of a Living Cell

David Bolinsky - Medical Artist and Illustrator. Truth and beauty in the biological sense. Molecular and cellular biology. Nano Biology.

This was a leaflet found with the sample floor tiles. It its in the same style and  font of the Liverpool Biannual Art Festival 'The Unexpected Guest' 


How Gems, Fashion and Luxury Have Changed Our Tastes


This is a clipping from ELLE magazine which shows our fascination with gems. A solid piece of Amethyst carved into a clutch bag.
The Crystal Caves of Bermuda
An enormous cavern surrounding an underwater lake of clear water. Two of the stalagmites are over 1 million years old, while other rock formations are reflected in the water. This place has now been turned into a cocktail bar for the tourists of Bermuda. 

Richard Weston, 'Blue Elestical Quartz' silk scarf. Sold at Liberty London.


Cube Houses - Rotterdam.

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