Zoe's artists search

Jeff Koonshttp://www.jeffkoons.com/

Sculpture with reflective surface
<-- Balloon Flower

Matthew Booth

PhotographerHang black photos in his own studio, then record the reflection on themblack, then image emerges as viewers getting closer

http://www.matthewboothphotography.com/artfolio/artportfolio.htm

Lynda Cornwell
http://www.lyndacornwell.co.uk/index.htm
contact http://www.lyndacornwell.blogspot.com/

These are two of her collections that may fit our theme

Light and Reflection http://www.lyndacornwell.co.uk/portfolio-light-reflection.html
Kaledioscopic images http://www.lyndacornwell.co.uk/portfolio-kaledioscopic.html

Peter Doig

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Doig

A painter works on reflection in water

Reflection - What does your soul look like
oil on canvas, 1996
Victoria Miro Gallery

a review of his retrospective show at Tate Britain

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/reviews/peter-doig-tate-britain-london-780339.html

Artists

Miru Kim
Photographer who take pictures of herself
(see previous post http://mycuratingcoursework.blogspot.com/2010/01/asdfsd.html)

Las Meninas

VELASQUEZ

Not a current artists, but sometimes curators borrow art works from institutions. In the 'Turner& Masters' exhibition, they borrow and transport works from everywhere!

We're just curationg a show on papers..
so,
guess this can work?

Brainstorming: Exhibition Name

PS: Please feel free to update this post with any exhibition name you come out. :)

Thanks!

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Reflection

Observe/Observed

Eye to Eye

Mirror& Man

On the Other Side

Through

Refraction/Reflection

See you , See me

Is it you or is it me?

Artists

Michelangelo Pistoletto

http://www.pistoletto.it/eng/home.htm

Mirror Paintings http://www.pistoletto.it/eng/crono04.htm#

Seated Man, 1962painted tissue paper on polished stainless steel mounted on canvas(in the picture: Michelangelo Pistoletto sitting in front of the work, Torino, 1962)

Biography http://www.pistoletto.it/eng/bio_breve.htm

Yue Minjun

http://www.yueminjun.com/en/index.html

A Chinese artist who paint self-portrait. He paints himself as a man with a hysterical( even creepy?) laughing face in all of his works.

Theme& Title

Theme
Reflection
Observe/ Observed

The artist is shown in his/ her own work
The recorder/ observer is also the one being recorded/ observed
When you look into a reflective surface such as a mirror, your image is looking back at you. Thus, you are taking both roles at the same time: the subject and the object, being active and passive


Title
undecided yet.
Let's raise more options and try to find an attractive enough title this week!

Possible titles currently:
reflection
observe/ observed

Pei’s Presentation

Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor, sculptor, was born on 12 March 1954 in Mumbai, India. He has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s where he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey Colleage of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design.

Kapoor's pieces are frequently simple, curved forms, usually monochromatic and brightly coloured. Most often, the intention is to engage the viewer, producing awe through their size and simple beauty, evoking mystery through the works' dark cavities, tactility through their inviting surfaces, and fascination through their reflective facades.

Cloud Gate, 2004, Millennium Park, Chicago

When asked if engagement with people and places is the key to successful public art, Kapoor said,

‘I’m thinking about the mythical wonders of the world, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Tower of Babel. It’s as if the collective will comes up with something that has resonance on an individual level and so becomes mythic. I can claim to take that as a model for a way of thinking. Art can do it, and I’m going to have a damn good go. I want to occupy the territory, but the territory is an idea and a way of thinking as much as a context that generates objects.’

Related Links:

http://www.anishkapoor.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anish_Kapoor

http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/anish-kapoor/about/

Zhang Xiaogang

Zhang Xiaogang (張曉剛 / 张晓刚), a contemporary Chinese symbolist and surrealist painter, was born in the city of Kunming in China's Yunnan province in 1958. He came of age during the 1960s and 70s political upheavals known as the Cultural Revolution, which exerted a certain influence on his painting.

He has made a Bloodline series of paintings, which are often monochromatic, stylized portraits of Chinese people, usually with large, dark-pupiled eyes, posed in a stiff manner deliberately reminiscent of family portraits from the 1950s and 60s.

A Big Family, 1995, Oil on canvas 179 x 229 cm

Referring to the Bloodline paintings, Zhang noted that old photographs "are a particular visual language" and says: "I am seeking to create an effect of 'false photographs' — to re-embellish already 'embellished' histories and lives." He said: "On the surface the faces in these portraits appear as calm as still water, but underneath there is great emotional turbulence. Within this state of conflict the propagation of obscure and ambiguous destinies is carried on from generation to generation."

Related Links:

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/zhang_xiaogang.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Xiaogang

Angie's Presentation - part 2

Miru Kim (1981, Korea)

She is an artist, photographer, illustrator, and arts events coordinator, who has explored, documented, and photographed various urban settings such as abandoned subway stations, tunnels, catacombs, factories, hospitals, and shipyards. Kim's "Naked City Spleen" is series of photographs that include images of herself nude in these settings.

About her project

The title of her multi-media project takes inspiration from the nickname of New York City (Naked City) and poetry of Baudelaire (Paris Spleen). There is a performance aspect to this project that blurs the conventional notions of photographer and model, since the artist does both, setting up the camera on tripod and self-timer after searching and infiltrating these man-made structures forgotten or ignored by most.

Kim's Sample Photographs










Useful Links

http://www/mirukim.com/

Angie's Presentation - part 1

Tom Friedman (1965,USA)

He is an american conceptual sculptor known for his work employing everyday material, such as toothpicks or sugarcubes in intricate geometric arrangements. His first solo exhibits were held in 1991 at Feature in New York City, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and the Rezac Gallery in Chicago. He has since exhibited in Uk, Italy, Switzerland and Japan among other countries.

About his work

• he uses everyday materials
• visual intriguing artwork, as well as rich with underlying commentary
• he transforms mundane materials into crafted work of art
• his artwork has simple humour and beauty
• obsessive with details

Friedman's Sample Artwork

Video

http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/britannia-street-2008-05-tom-friedman/#/videos/1/


Useful Links

http://www.designboom.com/portrait/friedman.html
http://www.gagosian.com/artists/tom-friedman/
http://www.bernardceysson.com/fiche_artiste.php?lieu=paris&art=art_1234121158#menu