Visit to Manchester...

Manchester City Art Gallery
http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/

Anthony gormley this is defornately a way of working which I am going to tryout, its very sturdy and unusual, and a new aspect of viewing creative and imaginative art. I enjoy looking at art that had a resembleance to everyday life.

 

My trousers (Prototype)

Made by Assa Ashuach 2003

Levi’s 501 jeans with plywood and rubber frame.

The deceptively ordinary looking My trousers are much more than an ordinary pair of jeans; when wearer bends in to a sitting position an internal frame locks the trousers into place, making the sitter seem to float magically in mid air.

  Ashuach developed the trousers as a student project, pursuing his interest in designing products that solve everyday problems and situations.

This was a new way working which I may not be able to experiment with at college as these arent materials which are aloud to use aswell as being safe. So im going to adapt around that problem any may be make expand on how else I cann make an object like that with different mediums so I can use this artist in  my work.

 

The Theatre of life

Made by Andy Hazell 2004

Wardrobes with printed tin plate scenes

Andy Hazell is renowned for his animated sculptures. In these witty domestic scenes of everyday life, he makes ordinary lives appear extraordinary. Every day we choose props to play out our lives; selecting a variety of objects ton set the scene, and assist us in delivering our daily scripts. Many museum pieces were in peoples’ homes.

 

Pulse index 2010

Rafeal Lozno-Hemmer

Plasma screen, computer, usb microscope, metal exclosure, custom software

Pulse index is part of a series of electric works by the Mexican-Canadian artist, Rafeal Lozano-Hemmer, which are created through the interaction of the audience. This piece relates to the use of photography for security and identification; from passport photos to modern iris scans. The user inserts their index finger in to the scanning device which records the image of their fingerprint whilst simultaneously taking a pulse reading which briefly appears on screen as the visitor interacts with the work. A collage of 509 images of the prints of each user is created as each succeeding image is added and all the information is compiled in to a database. The work explores themes of identity, surveillance and mortality in ways which strongly relate to other more conventional photographic works in this display.

Navel 1994

Helen Robertson b.1959

Black and white photography mounted on aluminium.

Robertson work started with the phrase contemplating one’s own navel’. She writes, ‘ I was interested in the fluidity and instability of this image, its lightness and weight and how, without the overt feature of the navel the piece was almost imageless’. Robertson, like John Coplans, play with how enlargement to over life size and the use of overexposure can alter how we perceive the body, rendering it abstract and sculptural.

I found this work thought proviking but effective, an simple. I can use with along with other artists work to make my own work take the same effect.

  In the house of my father 1997
Donald Rodney 1961-1998
Photographic print on aluminium, Photography taken by Andra Nelki.

In Rodney’s outstretched hand is a tiny model house pieced together from sections of his own skin removed from his body during treatment for sickle cell anaemia. The house is a metaphor for the place where we feel safe  and ‘at home’ but for the artist his fatal illness made him feel vulnerable in his own skin. It was one of the last works he made.

 Rodney’s work usually dealt with larger social and political subjects relating to the position of a black man in white British Society but this work is more intimate and personal. It is a poignant image of the fragility of existence.


Manchester Museum (The University of Manchester)
http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/

HUMANS

Humans aren’t separate from nature, we are connected to other animals through our shared ancestors.  This makes us like one huge family. Our closest living relatives- like distant cousins- are chimpanzees and other apes. Fossils have been discovered that show how people developed from other animals over millions of years, how they evolved. We have the most complicated brains known to exist, making us uniquely able to understand and appreciate the world around us.

 

This work is very different to the way I would work, but I still like the idea od how they show from the inside the way we came to the way we are. its very interesting to look at but I could use the message through history in my work and that the human figure isnt just about how it looks from the inside that keeps you going.