CRIT, Thurs 21/3/13

NOTES

• Body as object
• Body as performance
• Common thread at this stage = PROVISIONALITY
• Can you apply this to performance?
• Provisional Painting article - re read
• ARTIST - John Reynolds
• Failure - of the practical elements. All work stands on the brink of failure
• Colour - relation to surrounding architecture outside. Texture, colour, concrete
• Orange - monochromatic plane that screams painting! Doesn't distract though, touches in and out
• Relationship between formal elements of materials - sharp edges of wood v's softness of clay
• Stick - measuring hight - body relationship
• Line on floor - conscious decision? = SITE RESPONSIVE/ SITE SPECIFIC
• Drawings - not big connecting between work and drawings
• Light - how it interacts with my work

Things to take and work through next.....

I flit in and out of using paint with a painting context. Last year I wanted to pull my practice back a little closer to painting, through monochromatic colour fields. So this year I want to figure out wether or not I want a conversation about painting as a trajectory in my practice.

Think through different ways to think about provisionality and failure.

Site specific and site responsive work.

Three Drawings, (21/03/2013), found wood, rubber bands.

Staying Orange, (21/03/2013), found wood, blue rope, acrylic paint, plaster.

Standing post, (21/03/2013), found wood, clay.

Gedi Sibony

        

Known for his sculptures and installations, which incorporate discarded materials and thrift store finds, turning them into poetic and harmonized assemblages. 'The works are fastidiously crafted, and not without humor; a 2008 sculpture in wood and colored light bears the title Its Origins Justify its Oranges.
When A.i.A. asked him about the exhibition's title, assuming there was a literary source, Sibony hesitated. "The source? The amazing . . . mind . . . word . . . jumbling . . . process," he said, breaking into a high-pitched laugh.'
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/news/2012-04-10/gedi-sibony-pulitzer/

I watched Sibony talk about his work in youtube video 'Framing Sculpture: Gedi Sibony' (where key contemporary artists are asked what sculpture is to them) and 'Chief Curator talks about the work of Gedi Sibony' (Curator talks about Sibonys' work).
I have struggles trying to pin down how I think about my practice and why I see myself as a painter when I very rearly will pick up paint and a brush. I found the way Sibony talks about his wasy of thinking about sculpture and his practice very helpful to my own thinking.
There is a gentlness and an awareness surrounding his objects and he talks about how he 'catches them as they come through and just gently turning them over. Placing them.' By going with what is there with the object already and not trying to force anything, lessening the pressure to produce.
He reuses and re-sieves objects, breathing them a new way to be in the world without covering up what they were.
Sibony also talked about details that function to absorb attention, to keep people moving around the room/space.

Saving cast away objects and pulling them back to life; said objects keep their marks which hold their testiments to their previous uses.
Humor serves as an element to Sibonys work, while being gracefully mundane, the viewer could be being asked to take a piece of carpet very seriously, so viewers need to remember to laugh.

"It is tempting at first glance to consider the work in terms of Minimalism. Industrial materials and a reductive appearance aside, however, Sibony’s work isn’t cold or monotonous. His materials have been lived with. The surfaces are not fussy, but worn. Because there is a distinctly narrative, romantic quality to these objects, a more apt comparison that suggests itself is with the artists of the Arte Povera movement, who employed everyday materials in a humble condition. And yet, Sibony’s show manages to feel simultaneously anachronistic and extremely contemporary making us less inclined to question the artists’ placement in art history, and more free to enjoy the simplicity and poetry in his arrangements." http://www.artcritical.com/2010/12/15/gedi-sibony/

Link to interview between Zak Kitnick and Gedi Sibony on IDIOM called 'the truest that i have: Interview with Gedi Sibony', October 20 2010.