Over the past week its been quite hectic trying to get some work done. It was my birthday on the 4th and that caused no end of problems with work flow, especially considering how close we are to the deadline. Anyway because I just wanted to work on my drawing and not worry about my blog I have decided to upload the four latest pieces in the Many faces of masculinity series all at once. The self portrait representations of myself are not accurate they are made up using photographic adaption software, exaggeration of existing lines and photographs of family, friends and others for reference. All of which are mix together with my imagination.
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Presentation for the symposium and it documented the entire process of Inner Absence from its birth as working title to taking the exhibition down.
Although I appeared to have no nerves and by all accounts I gave a very good speech I was absolutely petrified I put in some jokes on the slides to try and take the edge off the talk but I also tried to make the speech using no notes as the piece of paper could have been distracting and due to my dyslexia it would have probably be harder to read it anyway. In the end our group got excellent feedback from the guest speaker Lesley Guy and the buffet had no left overs. Job well done I think.
The beginning of the crit began with the group talking about the children & drug abuse pieces. Although, the actually references to drug abuse were rarely spotted leading me to believe that maybe they are just a little to ambiguous. The
The invisible art of Lana Newstrom is in fact a hoax, perpetrated by professional radio parodists Pat Kelly and Peter Oldring. But I can see why so many people fell for it – especially having just covered the Turner prize.
27-year-old artist Lana Newstrom says she is the first artist in the world to create invisible “art.” In a documentary, CBC Radio traveled to her empty studio to learn more about Lana and her unusual artistic process.
According to Newstrom, “Just because you can’t see anything, doesn’t mean I didn’t put hours of work into creating a particular piece”. “Art is about imagination and that is what my work demands of the people interacting with it. You have to imagine a painting or sculpture is in front of you,” says Newstrom. Paul Rooney, Lana’s agent, believes she might be the greatest artist alive working today: “When she describes what you can’t see, you begin to realize why one of her invisible works can fetch upwards of a million dollars.” said Rooney. Published on 28 Sep 2014 Is art invisible to the naked eye any less potent than that which we are able to see, asks Richard Dorment.
In his 1962 essay ‘After Abstract Expressionism’ Clement Greenberg argued that ‘(u)nder the testing of Modernism more and more of the conventions of the art of painting have shown themselves to be dispensable, unessential (...) thus a stretched or tacked-up canvas already exists as a picture – though not necessarily as a successful one’. The Modernist critic could hardly have guessed that this ‘tacked-up canvas’, for him merely a rhetorical possibility, would become an important touchstone for subsequent art practice, much as the monochrome had been for a previous generation of artists. The missing object and empty room have become Conceptual art’s degree zero, gesturing towards the conventions that ‘frame’ raw material as art and making room for the forms of openness, contradiction, paradox and irresolution that are contemporary art’s essential condition.
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