Untitled
2011
Ongoing collection to chart the passage for painting in the continuous current, with writing for work informed by or informing painted practice. Images, modelled and actual paint all twisted like a vine, etc.
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Extended Dots
2011
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A dot painting by Damien Hirst with 200% area added to the sides then put through Photoshop Content-Aware Fill to predict the expansion.
Detail views of recent PE type work by Urs Fischer as shown in recent issue of TAR Magazine.
It’s no secret that the movie theater is the contemporary successor to the mythical and moralizing social tale once dominated by European painting - the cinema as cathedral and all that jazz… anyway here the love affair between the cinema screen and it’s canvas origins make a cute couple in this recent venture, where the great Leonardo is resurrected for a global rockstar style tour… Leonardo Live. Not sure how it’s live seeing as he passed away in 1519, but yep it’s paint on the big screen like never before in HD no less. Forget going to museums, the epitomy of high culture is coming to a cathedral, I mean a cinema near you in some kind of Re-Renaissance conundrum. Maybe Herzog could explain.
NEW DOCUMENT
There is a new rectangular viewbox into understanding what it means to be human. Johansson Projects presents New Document, where our expanding visual literacy provides a schematic history of the materials and methods employed by artists Andrew Chapman, Matthew Draving, Hunter Longe and Hugh Zeigler. Temporal interpretations are generated and informed by our relationship to a computerized environment. Age-old descriptive terms such as layering, cropping and rendering take on new connotations when properties from the world of screens are engaged within the work. Windows, gridded matrices, split-screens and drop-shadows append idiosyncratic cues to our visual vocabulary and become an inherent aspect of making and viewing objects. Gesture extends from the brushstroke to encompass video compression, 3-d rendering, and a multitude of printing methods as the artists excavate through non-linear layers of medium and mediation.
- Johansson Projects
Image: Andrew Chapman, 2011. Oil & Acrylic on Panel.
