Showing posts with label constructivism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label constructivism. Show all posts
Wednesday, 9 July 2014
DOUGLAS COUPLAND EXHIBITION, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY MAY 31 - SEPT 1, 2014
A friend of Future-Rocker's drew our attention to this exhibition. I've even read books by Douglas Coupland, yet had absolutely no idea that he was also an artist. Paintings, Lego, QR codes, graphics...this show is everything I want to see in an art exhibition. Totally beautiful - check out this clip!
Tuesday, 10 June 2014
OLIVIA PEAKE: FUTURGARDE
Olivia is a UK artist, and here she talks to FUTURE-ROCKER about her unique brand of Neo-Futurism.
I first started to get back into painting, having investigated different mediums in drawing, photo-editing, collage and textiles. I had gained a great interest in technology, having worked my ideas through photoshop and had a love for high intensive colours, manipulating hues, saturations and contrasts.
I wanted to investigate how I could make my paintings interact with the ideas of new technology, and the modern lifestyle we see today. This is where the urban architectural structures and utopian virtual spaces began, and I started to produce my large-scale abstract paintings with fluorescent vibrant paint.
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I first started to get back into painting, having investigated different mediums in drawing, photo-editing, collage and textiles. I had gained a great interest in technology, having worked my ideas through photoshop and had a love for high intensive colours, manipulating hues, saturations and contrasts.
I wanted to investigate how I could make my paintings interact with the ideas of new technology, and the modern lifestyle we see today. This is where the urban architectural structures and utopian virtual spaces began, and I started to produce my large-scale abstract paintings with fluorescent vibrant paint.
Olivia Peake: Futurgarde ( Painting One ), 2013
I am influenced by Greenberg, Fried and Douglas
Fogle’s The Trouble with Painting, and the manipulation of painting to reform
the canvas into a new hybrid form. Melting the edges of the restrictive canvas
into three-dimensional form, light and installation and intervening within the
architecture of the gallery space, to depict a metaphor for the collapse and
re-development of painting itself.
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Olivia Peake: Futurgarde ( Painting Two ), 2013
Further influences of mine were from movements within
futurism and modernist abstraction: Utopian spaces that present a state of re-development and movement, reminiscent
of the work of Julie Mehretu, Ian Monroe and Constant Nieuwenhuis' New Babylon. As intricate and
complex as my paintings are, my work also follows minimalistic structures,
taking inspiration for the work of Mondrian in the use of geometric forms and
technological pixilation, and creating stark building structures with
contrasting subtle reflections.
Olivia Peake: Futurgarde Installation, 2013
Olivia Peake: Futurgarde Installation, 2013
I develop my paintings by constantly editing, erasing,
re-doing, and working through levels of improvisation and intuitive responses, combined with precision and decisiveness of
perspective and forms. In a way my work is in a constant battle with itself,
being manipulated from a wall based canvas to a sculpture, then to an
installation. Conflicting responses between the virtual vs. actual, abstract
vs. representational, from the plastic
aesthetics of Perspex to the glossy reflective surfaces of paint.
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Olivia Peake: Urban Dynamics, 2012
My work is always shifting and
developing and has began to take influences in ideas of alter-modernism and the
interventionist work of Katharina Grosse, and I am excited to know where it
will lead next.
Olivia is currently living and working in Derby, UK, and further developing her paintings at a smaller scale and continuing to involve the use of installation and sculpture.
Olivia is currently living and working in Derby, UK, and further developing her paintings at a smaller scale and continuing to involve the use of installation and sculpture.
With thanks to Charlie Levine and Artfetch
ALEXI K: KONSTRUCTIVISM - A NEW LEVEL
I am an artist based in Birmingham UK, inspired by Futurism, Cubism and Constructivism, as well as Bauhaus, and the Dutch Avant-Garde. I'm a founding member of The Cobalt Blue art collective, where we make a point of seeking out great artists to join us on projects. We are not dictated to in any way, either by institutions, or the strictures of funding programs.
About the current series of paintings: I've been working on some canvases recently, that ideally need to be 'read' in sharp lighting, because of the level of accumulated detail ( in the relief patterns on the surface ). These allow you to see the 'history' of the piece - a bit like viewing a tract of land from an aeroplane.
Ultimately, you're seeing structures within structures, paintings inside paintings.
These close-ups work as finished pieces in themselves, and have inspired the next phase of my art.
About the current series of paintings: I've been working on some canvases recently, that ideally need to be 'read' in sharp lighting, because of the level of accumulated detail ( in the relief patterns on the surface ). These allow you to see the 'history' of the piece - a bit like viewing a tract of land from an aeroplane.
Ultimately, you're seeing structures within structures, paintings inside paintings.
These close-ups work as finished pieces in themselves, and have inspired the next phase of my art.
Alexi K: HYPERION - Acrylic on canvas, 2012
Alexi K: QUARTERLY PROJECTION - Acrylic on canvas, 2014
Alexi K: SUPERHIGHWAY - Acrylic on canvas, 2014
Below: The finished version? Maybe.
All artwork, copyright Alexi K, 2012 & 2014
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