Appropriation

In my book I studied appropriation in art, focussing mostly on artists such as a Sherrie Levine and Jeff Koons. My opnion of much of the art in particular Levine's work was negative as I found that the interest mostly surrounded how she changed the meaning and not the art itself.

I have, hovever, been intrigued by many artists appropriations in art such as artists who appropriate everyday materials such a Tony Cragg and Marcel Duchamp. I also liked Picasso's appropriation of Velazquez's 17th century figure of a girl as it does not exactly copy the figure but references it instead.

(left) Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez in 1656 

(right) Las Meninas (after Velazquez) by Pablo Picasso in 1957

Similarly, I think that Jeff Koons appropriation of Art Rogers 'puppies' takes the image into a new perspective. The materials and use of colour achieve a new image entirely, though of course it is inspired by Roger's work.

Development Photographs

Mike Nelson

This later photograph of a sitting figure that could referenced for drawing studies, I realised had a striking resemblance with a detail of Mike Nelson's structure at the Camden Arts Centre. The figure is made of delicate and hollow paper and material which connects with the drawing studies I did of the figure which was left blank and hollow.

Gabriel Orozco

Gabriel Orozco

Cornelia Parker

 After looking at Gordon Matta Clark and Cornelia Parker I found that Gabriel Orozco's fragmentation and deconstruction of a car had a clear similarity with the theme of splitting and separating.

John Stezaker

At the Whitechapel Gallery.
Stezaker's iconic collages of film stills and portraits met with landscapes or large spaces tends to reflect on the great incommunable distant betweeen people. The cut out spaces signifies a loss and opens up a great space where the eye must piece together what has been lost.

Simon Starling - shed boat shed

After watching Andrew Graham Dixon's progamme on the bbc, I was really interested in Simon Starling's work 'shed boat shed' which was fascinated by the process of construction and deconstruction. I found it interesting that Starling had curated the Camden Arts Centre exhibition as his work, i found, really related to Mike Nelson's work in the exhibition. 

John Piper

Piper's works are dark and emotive studies of derelict and worn buildings. I found the strong hues and harsh lines give a more dynamic atmosphere to the dereliction and deconstructive subjects I have been studying.

Camden Arts Centre - Never the same river (possible futures, probable pasts)

Ximena Garrido-Lecca - The Followers

This installation was my main inspiration for looking at death and mermorials as well as spaces that have an absence. The fact that these small memorials do exist in many other countries gives the piece a more poignant reality.

Newspeak - Saatchi gallery

Henrijs Preiss - Resembles the oriental artworks found in Mike Nelson's work at the Camden Arts Centre.

Camille - Reflecting on the past and recreating scenes captured and remaining in the memory. Her work reminded me of the pictures i took of my grandad which had an unmistakable air of memories and the act of reminiscing. 

I found the method of painting very interesting here as the artist used minimal paint, diluted and creates a fragment of a picture. the marks appears like shadows of a memory and leave much of the canvas blank.

Tessa Farmer - Her art appears to give life to these stiff, dead creatures creating a sense of movement and grotesque animation through their hanging in space which possibly allows for a slight sway. Essentially she recontructs what has already decontucted. In my project I have begun looking at derelict structures and this takes this idea into living materials and organic structures.