Decided to bring in a yoga mat, interesting dimensions; the exact measurements of a body, had the walked mark of a person and showed its purpose and those that had touched it.
The space of thinking before anything is made.
mat is an invitation to lay down. art is the act f making the act of production - most valuable time is when you are not in action - what is a productive state? mat invites you lay down, invites you to ‘not do’ invites you to lie down - a different view on making.
purposes and practices -
practice is a labour, about putting in time and having an intention and completing that intention, often about having a goal and surpassing it.
purpose is a space of bringing into presence, the studio is like the mat, brings you into a tentative space - brings you to think and reflect on things before going into practice.
likes the fact that its almost not an object, thats its so close to the ground.
White mat leads him to think about monochrome; its brings up and particular question to painters of the death and end of painting. Monochrome is the first full stop of painting, nothing more to be said. - Rochenko
began to think a lot about architecture, looked at russian architecture. relationship of living, dwelling and sleeping. takes up the most redundant practice of painting cliche images - still life, portraits etc.
Kiaer made a piece to reflect this, large hanging ‘curtain’ of painted material - see through. Wrote a text to go with melnachofs studio and architectural interest. Laid over part of the painting on top of the printed text. Text talks about the artists and the relationship between living and the architecture of the building - working, living sleeping etc. made beds within the house out of concrete - almost like death bed - being laid on the slab.
In reaction to melnakofs hospital commission, made a metal chaise longe - connotations to the chair, hospital, talking, interesting conversation etc. sense of affliction and physical suffering. get the sense of sick patients laying down and talking about there personal issues and psychiatric issues.
Thinking about paintings and death, sense of how to continue thinking about something that has been declared redundant. you could paint a cake, yet get the sense that he's painting against something else through colour and tone. talking about in-depth subjects such as the holocaust, the idea of being able to cram all of this into a painting.
Michael Crebber - painting over a patterned cloth touching on the idea that painting is dead. like the idea that a painting is something that you can begin yet is never necessarily finished.
show in france - aldo rossi building. buidling designed by an architecture in the 1890’s thinking about what it is to make to and what it is to building. over determined space to display artwork in. thrust into the bookshop straight away, idea that books are of high importance and lead onto work. building is split up into several spaces; reading spaces, artwork spaces and resting spaces. Building was beyond its time - circular sections etc.
idea of pressure of what artwork should be. pressure of making work in the studio and bringing it out. agonises in nature - sometimes the artwork doesn't support in the space.
in the grand salon space, idea or the artwork raising to the space within the gallery. idea of reflection, took out all of the windows and the lights above so all of the focus was on the boat hull inspired ceiling.
did the opposite, displayed work in a small gallery in Paris, filled the space with a large inflatable become more of an obstruction.
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