smithkn13203159: May 2014

Film stills

All underneath :

"Untitled"

Film stills from Baddesley Clinton, 2014.

Luc Tuymans

Luc Tuyman's made figurative paintings.

1980s
"Made his first mark, when he began to explore Europe's memories of World War II. With harsh, elegant paintings like gas chamber like:

Gas chamber (1986)

Which depicts the Dachau concentration camp. "

"Displaying the gap between represented image and historical event, Luc Tuyman's paintings delve into the inner workings of how mythology is created. "

Still Life, 2002, Oil on Canvas, 347 x 500 cm

2002

"Luc Tuyman's focused on works of art with political or social commentary , many expiated Tuyman's to make new works in response to the New York attacks on September 2001. Instead he presented a simple still-life executed on a massive scale , deliberately ignoring all reference to world events leading to negative critiques."

Maypole

2000, Oil on Canvas, 224x116 cm

Within

2001, Oil on Canvas, 223 x 243 cm

"Luc Tuyman's paints the indescribable. His dark muted scenes seem vaguely familiar."

Tuyman's work will help influence my own work as the atmosphere he creates is captivating and I want to bring that into my drawings / paintings to create much more depth and atmosphere.

Giving my drawings almost a story like Tuyman's so that the places I paint have a history and a meaning like my film work.

Tony Hill

" Tony Hill has an interest in space, place, viewpoint and orientation to his practice as an artist and film-maker.
He creates bizarre and sometimes humorous vantage points that make us re think our assumptions about perspective, gravity , scale and movement.

Developing his own camera rigs and ingeniously using mirrors and unusual lenses he exploits the great potential for film to see in different ways to show us the world afresh. "

100 heads

The doors

and Striking images.

Nadia Kisseleva Mac Birmingham

Artist statement based on the paintings in the exhibition I saw:

"Document" is a very personal work for Nadia, in which the history of the country where she was born and brought up is closely intertwined with history of her own family. These paintings reveal the condition of people in the last days and hours of their lives. The images of people in''Document'' are based on the mug shots of ordinary people who were living during the period of Stalinist repression. They show workers, students, teachers, members of army and the communist party. The broad range of ages and nationalities shows the scale of the prosecution at the time.

The artist’s work does this with considerable compassion, at the same time examining the unfolding events that would soon change for ever these peoples’ lives. Nadia undertakes the daring task of limiting her usually colourful palette to shades of black and white only, in order to achieve this powerful imagery. She has said: "Painting in black and white helps me to get closer to the image and to the time when these mug shots were taken."

Although the influence of the original images, the mug shot photographs of 30s and 40s, are obvious, the aim of this series of works is different: it is to re-create the visual history of every person within the limitation of the primal material. This she does with a lot of dedication.

It is a compassionate study of human tragedy, in which the artist aims to examine the role of the individual within the framework of historic events and to question the relationship between the state and the individual."

from http://www.oneoffart.net/nadia/

(To show what interested me the most in her statement I highlighted the key points. What has influenced me is the way she creates her brush marks, and the choice to use a very minimal colour palette, which is what I find to be more successful and powerful in my drawings of places. Even though it is a different subject matter, I can take away from her work the way she layers up the paint to create dimension.

I really enjoyed her exhibition).