2006
Mixed Media
Status: Available artwork
Study Piece Nov 2006
Materials: Cardboard, Masking Tape
After a few frustrating weeks at trying to understand 'Space', I finally did my first successful piece. I activated the surface! As per my Assessment by tutor Peter Adsett, "It asks the viewer the question: what is line or what is shape and then asks the question when does one act as line and then shift to shape???..."
In this part of the course, we were working "...into the the investigation of real space through an exploration of the structural conventions on 2D surfaces, layering material to create a pictorially 'flat' plane".
"This is an exercise that is related closely to process, base materialism and horizontality...".
Pablo Picasso and Robert Rauschenberg held a common belief that collage was the most radical way to explore non-pictorial space. "...Picasso's methods of using pieces of pasted paper, text and drawing, created flatness that obliterated illusionism. Rauschenberg went further, and used objects that signified horizontality, the horizontal plane of the work-desk scattered with papers, photos, articles etc., and the flat-bed of the printing press".
SPACE - The aim of our Term 2 course (as well as a continuation from Term 1's 'relationship between the artist and their materials) was "the investigation of the non-mimetic aspects of the space that the art work and the viewer share. The focus travels from the surface of the art work, into the 'marked' site, and to the viewer".
