Maria
2010
Dorothee Golz
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My work is split up into two parts, firstly the setup for the picture and secondly, the ‘retouch work’ on the photography. The face on the image of the original painting is replaced with photographic details, in turn taking on the character of a photo. The photo-realistic faces are then inserted into a contemporary photographic scene. The consciously positioned composition, the lighting and the semantic meaning of the picture’s elements give the end photograph the character of a painting.
• 29 January 2012
Void Mastery / Blank Control, Petra Cortright
DD: What was the inspiration for Void Mastery / Blank Control?
Petra Cortright: For the series, a big inspiration was Photoshop CS5 in combination with me buying a Wacom tablet. I got some extra “art” pens for the tablet too. I was really into the new technology they had in CS5 for the realistic brushes that mimic real paintbrushes with bristles and strokes, so was making a lot of images that were really painterly. The videos that go along with the images are nice. I guess they illustrate the mood well.
DD: How is the exhibition different from your previous shows?
Petra Cortright: I’m showing prints and, in general, producing physical work is still pretty new to me. The prints will be on canvas, which is something I never have printed on before. Last spring I had a show in Mexico City where I had shown some prints on satin. Those were very ethereal and delicate and draped. These prints are super pigmented and really… heavy.
- excerpt via Dazed Digital
Exhibition now on view at The Composing Rooms in London.
• 29 January 2012
Extended Dots
2011
Mike Ruiz
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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.
• 12 January 2012
Angioletta Giolli
2009
Antonio Bonora
3ds max, mental ray, Photoshop, ZBrush
• 11 January 2012
Detail views of recent PE type work by Urs Fischer as shown in recent issue of TAR Magazine.
• 9 January 2012
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.
• 8 January 2012
Small Protractor Painting Via Stella
2011
Phillip Faulkner
• 8 January 2012
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
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Image: Andrew Chapman, 2011. Oil & Acrylic on Panel.
• 6 January 2012
