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elanya at 07:17pm on 02/04/2015 under art, photography, stak galleries, twitter crosspost, work
elanya at 07:17pm on 02/04/2015 under art, photography, stak galleries, twitter crosspost, workI don't have a lot of time to go into it right now, but I went to the opening of the College of Architecture Faculty Show opening at work. This is a show we do every two years, so this is the second time around for me. The last time we held it it had some neat stuff. This time there is some really stellar stuff I am very excited about!
Our director wanted us to grab the artists while we had a chance and ask them about their work in a little more depth, so I did some interviews with some of the artists, one because he was there and two others because they had pieces I really really liked.
The first was a child's canoe from a traditional Australian design, based on one that the artist, himself Australian, had as a child, he designed it, and it was built by several of his students as a class project, following his design.
The other two were photography! Which I am biased towards for Reasons. Long, piggy reasons >.>
The first (Marcel Erminy) was architectural stuff, very stark black and white images capturing very cool shadows on some old buildings, and then a series playing with perspectives in the same space in an area that the architect had been drawn to because of the lines and contrasts, They were printed on a very specific (and veeeeery nice) matte art paper that works really very well with the architectural textures. He also had a series of shots of tree branches in winter that were playing around with focus and depth of field as a way to experiment with ideas about photography and presentation and control versus natural perceptions.
The last guy (Anatol Bologan), man. I LOVED his stuff! It was pictures of reflective surfaces, like glass, that capture and colocate other aspects of the local built human environment and draw them into conversation with each other, with their environment, with the photographer and ultimately their viewer. Unlike the architectural photographs I discussed above, these were minimally processed. There was one, for exacmple, that was of a women's fashion store in London, that had a reflections from the building across the street with beautiful grafiti art of a woman who was being smothered by a rose, and then out of the window frame, on the wall beside this, someone had pasted a cut out of a woman in basically her underwear with her hands on her hips, staring defiantly. And all of these these are captured and revealed in a conversation about femininity/femnism, expectations of women, etc [and then I had to go because my ride is here so I couldn't expand further on this thought! that was inserted after I'd finished the rest;p]. Talking with him about it was really exciting, too! I was looking online, and he has a website for his paintings and drawings, but not his photos, alas! I liked them to start with, and then the more I talked to them the more my brain sparked on them. They really spoke to me a lot.
Our director wanted us to grab the artists while we had a chance and ask them about their work in a little more depth, so I did some interviews with some of the artists, one because he was there and two others because they had pieces I really really liked.
The first was a child's canoe from a traditional Australian design, based on one that the artist, himself Australian, had as a child, he designed it, and it was built by several of his students as a class project, following his design.
The other two were photography! Which I am biased towards for Reasons. Long, piggy reasons >.>
The first (Marcel Erminy) was architectural stuff, very stark black and white images capturing very cool shadows on some old buildings, and then a series playing with perspectives in the same space in an area that the architect had been drawn to because of the lines and contrasts, They were printed on a very specific (and veeeeery nice) matte art paper that works really very well with the architectural textures. He also had a series of shots of tree branches in winter that were playing around with focus and depth of field as a way to experiment with ideas about photography and presentation and control versus natural perceptions.
The last guy (Anatol Bologan), man. I LOVED his stuff! It was pictures of reflective surfaces, like glass, that capture and colocate other aspects of the local built human environment and draw them into conversation with each other, with their environment, with the photographer and ultimately their viewer. Unlike the architectural photographs I discussed above, these were minimally processed. There was one, for exacmple, that was of a women's fashion store in London, that had a reflections from the building across the street with beautiful grafiti art of a woman who was being smothered by a rose, and then out of the window frame, on the wall beside this, someone had pasted a cut out of a woman in basically her underwear with her hands on her hips, staring defiantly. And all of these these are captured and revealed in a conversation about femininity/femnism, expectations of women, etc [and then I had to go because my ride is here so I couldn't expand further on this thought! that was inserted after I'd finished the rest;p]. Talking with him about it was really exciting, too! I was looking online, and he has a website for his paintings and drawings, but not his photos, alas! I liked them to start with, and then the more I talked to them the more my brain sparked on them. They really spoke to me a lot.
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