Friday, September 24, 2010

Transformation Project Research- 5 Artists





Name: Rebecca Horn

            Examples - 

1. River of the Moon: Room of Lovers
In this piece, she uses Violins, Motor and a Bed. She took the everyday objects and transformed them into a meaning. The violin sounds in the hotel room play a part of the images of romance. There are multiple violins because it allows your mind dance with the sounds of romance.

2.  Madame Guermantes: Ping Pong
This is piece is made out of book, old tennis racket, ping pong ball, electrical machinery in glass box and metal with traces

The Little Painting School Performs a Waterfall
A "waterfall" of rectangular, cobalt blue, paintings floating close to the gallery wall -- with an "ejaculation" of the same cobalt blue, shot up the wall, behind the floating rectangles. It is made out of metal rods, aluminum, sable brushes, electric motor, acrylic on canvas

about the artist
Rebecca uses violins, suitcases, batons, hammers, vessels. She designs and makes instruments used for presentation of the human body.  Her artwork is connected to culture and technology Issues, they often employ mythological allusions emotionality, obsessions and fears. 
Name: Cornelia Parker

Examples - 
1. Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View
In piece is a garden shed that was blown up by the British Army. It was suspended fragments as if the garden was exploding in the process of time. In the museum, there was a centre light that allowed the piece to cast shadows of the wood drawn on the wall. 

2. Installation view
The form of shelter made from nets suspended from the gallery ceiling. The installation evokes a temporary encampment, the nets drape and overlap, the moiré of black meshes resembling minimalist drawings in three dimensions.

3. Hanging Fire, Suspected Arson
In this piece it is made out of charcoal, wire, pins and nails. She has created a new suspended work, which resurrect in sculptural  to form edifices which have crumbled in dramatic circumstances. Through the microscopic magnification in Einstein’s Abstracts transform the gestures of Einstein’s equations into images which evoke all its associations of time and space.

about the artist
Cornelia Transforms familiar everyday objects to investigate the nature of matter, test physical properties and the public meaning of life. Her work is all about the potential of the materials even when it looks like they have lost their own meaning.
Name: Brian Jungen

Examples - 

1. Cetology
Is made out of Nike footwear. make visible Jungen’s own obsession with the basketball superstar, and reminds the viewer how persuasive marketing techniques can contribute to the fetishization of goods for sale.

2. Variant I
This piece is a skeleton of a dinosaur and is made out of plastic chairs. Cetology questions the conventions of museum display in general, and specifically focuses on those elements that reflect the artist’s own experience

3. Study for the Evening Redness in the West.
This piece is made out of softballs and seems to be mask to fit to perfectly fit over the whole head of a person. Mask subjects participate in the global economy, a fact in direct contradiction to their idealized identity.

about the artist
Artist Brian Jungen says that one of the best ways to get people to look at artwork is to create it out of materials that they recognize. He uses everything from basketball sneakers to plastic chairs to baseball gloves. He says that much of his work is a response to the hostility and stereotypes that he faced as a person of First Nations ancestry. Much of Jungen's work is created out of sports paraphernalia — a suit of armor made of catcher mitts, a skull crafted from baseball skins, blankets woven from jerseys, and totem poles of stacked golf bags.
Name: Roy Lichtenstein 

Examples - 
1. Whaam!
This piece is based upon an image from “All American Men of War.” It was presented as an acrylic and oil piece on a canvas back. This image is attracted by the high emotional subject matter through war. In 'Whaam!', he adapted and developed the original composition to produce an intensely stylized painting.

2. Forms in Space
Can be seen as a political or social 'critique' upon 80's america. The representation of the flag is purposefully imperfect and is placed close together for a contrasting effect. Instead of the normal horizontal red lines, Liechtenstein drew backward diagonal lines, these lines are ragged and not straight. Instead of stars we have circles that bleed out of their own space, due to the iconic nature and political significance of this piece.

3. Composition I
This print is a beautiful example of Liechtenstein's musical imagery series. The series was executed for charitable causes, composition I has a specific nature flow and many consider this to be the most aesthetically arranged print. Liechtenstein also combined a hint of his previous technique of light, depth and shadow by use of his trademark diagonal lines and blue dots, this helps to give the work an extra dimension.

about the artist
Roy’s worked with paintings and modified actual comic stripes, and advertisements. His work procedure is where he would lay the comic stripe of advertisement in an enlarger and unification of source material. His works purpose was either to tell a story to sell a consumer product, he wanted to freeze the emotions in the action. Lichtenstein could present powerfully charged scenes in an impersonal manner, leaving the viewer to figure out meanings for themselves. Although he was careful to retain the character of his source, Lichtenstein also explored the formal qualities of commercial imagery and techniques.


Name: Alex Andromeda

Examples - 
1.Galactica
It is made out of materials such as a computer board, wire and spray paint. His physical source of inspiration is one piece of the universe, solar and planetary system. 

2. Recycled Motorcycle.
Andromeda used mostly discarded electronics like VCRs and old computer parts for his creation. The most stunning part of this piece is that it actually features a DC Motor as engine with a belt driven rear wheel which can also be powered when the bike is placed on dedicated standoffs, but that feature is reserved only for occasional purposes.

3. Spaceship Sirius
Here is just one of his amazing creations, a ceiling lamp made from old hard drive cases. It is a further enhancement in the design in the area of the futuristic design. It is assembled just using available holes on the computer parts

about the artist
Alex’s works are electronic art that is assembled into robotic sculptures using recycled electronics. He transforms old computer parts and electronics to form a new existence. He does this to show that there are signs left by energy of ancient and hyper civilization. Alex Andromeda calls himself a science fiction artist who wants to connect the far future with the mystical past.

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