Summer 2014: Femminilità Radicale – Museo Gucci

Today I attended the Femminilità Radicale exhibition at the Museo Gucci in Firenze. This exhibition was created from the work of Lee Lozano, Alina Szapocznikow, and Evelyne Axell.

“The real body, brought to life by the performances from Evelyne Axell or the conceptual projects from Lee Lozano which blur the line between art and life. The broken body, smashed to pieces in the sculptures by Alina Szapocznikow, whose work is on the fringes of both art and decorative art. The transposed body, in abstraction or confronting the triviality of the (masculine) universe of objects by Lee Lozano. The body at play in a critical look at the history of art from Evelyne Axell. The desiring body, dressed in the virtues of seduction, with Axell and Szapocznikow. The suffering body, threatened by exclusion, illness and death, with Szapocznikow and Lozano.”

Shown below is my favourite piece from each artist.

Evelyne Axell, La Clôture or la Cloison, 1967
Clartex, enamel, canvas, striped painted wooden pole, painted wood frame and stand

Alina Szapocznikow, Sculpture-lampe IX, 1970
Coloured polyester resin, electric wire and metal
127 x 42 x 33 cm

Lee Lozano, No Title, 1965
Oil on canvas, 2 parts
234.3 x 310.3 x 3.9 cm

Summer 2014: Warner Brother Studio

Yesterday I visited the Harry Potter tour in Watford and was amazed by the attention to detail that went into all of the props, outfits, etc. Below are a few of my favourite photographs taken (images 1 – 6). There were many maquettes and digital pieces on display.

Gallery Visits: Art14

At this exhibition I found pieces that were relevant to FGM:

  

Pieces that are inspirational in terms of sculpture and clothing items:

  

And pieces that the techniques used to create the pieces and the ending results were interesting:

Gallery Visit: Art14 London

Today I purchased 2 tickets for the Art14 London fair. 

 

 

Gallery Visits: Tate

Energy and Process – Gerhard Richter

“Gerhard Ricter’s panes of glass and mirrored works are literal reflections on the nature of pictorial representation.”

11 Panes 2004, Glass and Wood.

 

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/richter-11-panes-ar00026

Poetry and Dream – Mike Kelley

“In Channel One, Channel Two and Channel Three, Mike Kelley brings together the rational forms of minimalist sculpture with a more mystical psychedelic sensibility.”

http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/supernatural-powers-plywood

Clare Goodwin, Critical Collaborative Meeting, and Planning Gallery Visits

Today I attended the talk held by Clare Goodwin, a visiting artist:

• Bowe Art Trust
• Triangle Workshop – Takes artists out of studio and mixes them
• Maureen Paley – Making contacts in foreign country
• K3 Space – Zurich was in need of spaces
• Working with other artists can be frustrating
• Use of set studio space, pop-up spaces
• Hard-edge painter – figurative, line, and colour, acrylic paint
• Collect ties and scarfs for inspiration, use of charity shops
• Portraits, named materials for paintings, titles are important
• Get your own website
• Different ways of marking out spaces in galleries, etc.
• Additions to paintings: scarves draped across gallery floor space.
• Use of language of shape, colour, and tone to suggest interaction
• Get to know writers. Who you know and who can do it for you.
• Networking from galleries is changing to digital communication
• Supernormal Festival
• Internships are useful.

After the talk, my Critical Collaborative Methods group met up and planned a schedule for us to complete our project successfully in time.

• Modified our idea to address the night scene dress code by changing the location and medium to inside a club and film to present in the seminar on 27th Jan.
• Use of mobile phones and video camera to record footage to recreate technological use in clubs.
• Dress in a conservative manner (bland, boring, not provocative) but acting as ourselves, seeing what effect clothes have on how we act.
• Create a mock-umentary through film and photography.
• Use of signs and questionnaires to highlight contrast and involve the public.

I have planned to start the year off with a selection of gallery visits this weekend.

• Tate Modern: Andrea Fraser, and Hirschhorn and Richier
• Tate Britain: Alison Wilding, and John Akomfrah
• Whitechapel Gallery: Elizabeth Price