Object
What makes an object? External to the thinking mind.
How does our perception change objects?
Containers/vessels/receptacles
Primo Levi
A Bottle of Sunshine, Other People’s Trades (book)
The Periodic Table (book) – each chapter relates to an element
Giorgio Morandi, Still Life, 1951 – 53, Oil on canvas, 30 X 50cm
Blanked out labelling
Space between objects – tension
Line of pots left bleeding into each other
Argument for slowness, engaging with the objects
Repeated compositions
Series revolved around same 5 objects with slight differences
Francis Ponge
The Nature of Things, 1942 (book)
Takes different objects/ materials and uses the thinking through the poem as a way of looking at the object.
Draws attention to the strangeness. Juice doesn’t go back into an orange, it is just squeezed out.
“The object is always more important… “
Elad Lassry
Sterling Silver Cups, 2012, c-print, aluminium fran, 29.2 X 36.7 X 3.8cm
Installation View, White Cube, Hong Kong 2012
Gourds B, 2011, 36.5 x 29 x 4cm, C-print, painted frame
Cub, Raccoon, 2011 36.5 x 29 x 4cm, C-print, brass frame
Pink forks, 2011, 36.5 x 29 x 4cm, C-print, painted frame
Coy Fish, 2011, 36.5 x 29 x 4cm, C-print, painted frame
Untitled (Blue bar, Mural), 2011, 25.7 x 19.1 x 3.8cm, Foil on C-print, painted frame
Go into a gallery and see the lines of the frames. Objects on the wall. Turn into photographs when you move closer.
Inside and outside
Jean Chardin, The Tobacco Box, 1737, Oil on canvas, 32 x 42cm
Balanced so the pipe cuts into the inside lid of the box
Interested in painting what he saw
Looser brushstrokes as he got older
Florian Roithmayr, Installation view, Like Plugging In, MOT International, 2012
Grotto, 2012, bespoke canvas awning, 500 x 300 x 240cm
Suspension and Air
Juan Cotán
Quine, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber, c.1602
Oil on Canvas, 68.9 x 84.5cm
Highly constructed, high contrast
Michelangelo Antonioni, Zabriskie Point, 1970
Intense explosions
Air being made physical
Objects affecting us/ Affecting Objects
George Perec
Species of Spaces and Other Places (book)
Aware of habits and the manipulation of them
Writing becomes a record of movements
Elizabeth Price
AT THE HOUSE OF MR X, 2007, HD video installation
Home of a businessman who became an art collector
Narrative walks you through the house
Use of language to pique interest
Directions
Ben Cage
A Stage Before, Installation View, Supplement Gallery
Who might the objects be engaged by?
4 tables, original gallery table and 3 duplicates created
Inviting the viewer to imagine and complete the event
Ben Cain,
Tool Circle, donated hand-held tools, and found in ex-factory and Tetley archive
Installed on a former site of the Tetley Brewing company, Leeds.
Repetition and Time
Picasso, The Architect’s Table, 1912, Oil on Canvas mounted on panel, 72.6 x 59.7cm
Representation of objects from many sides. Opening up of objects.
Gertrude Stein, Pictures, Lectures in America
Just interested by something that is an oil painting in some way
A Piece of Coffee
Did not like nouns in her poetry. “A noun is a name of anything”
Splice together sentences. A lot of repetition.
“The settling of stationing, cleaning is one way not to shatter…”
William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow, 1923
Slowness
Waiting to understand what is depending upon the wheelbarrow
Holis Frampton, Lemon, 1969, silent
Film even in it’s physical attributes have become a metaphor
How We Felt/ At What We Saw
William Nicholson, The Glass Bowl, 1920, Oil on canvas, 58.5cm x 53.4cm
Transparency of glass and the constant reflections
Wallace Stevens, Someone Puts a Pineapple Together
Sizes are exchanged.
Objectum – The thing presented to the mind
Cezanne, Still life with Glass, Fruit and Knife, c.1977- 89, Oil on canvas, 46 x 55cm
Placing off centre of bowl and glass
Tied together instead of separate entities
My Fine Art Practice (W101) 