The V&A and The Serpentine

The V&A and The Serpentine

3rd September

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http://www.serpentinegallery.org/

At the V&A...

Memory Palace

Francesco Franchi: Digital print

Mario Wagner: Paper, acrylic on canvas, tv, magnet

Stefanie Posavec: Giclee prints

Abake: Mixed media

Nemo Tral: Acrylic print on uv light box

Isabel Greenberg: Digital prints 

Frank Laws: Ink and acrylic on paper, plastic, hessian scrim

Sam Winston: 16g zinc letter press plates, ink, wood

Luke Pearson: Digital prints, pen and ink

Alexis deacon: Pencil, watercolour and acrylic ink on paper

Jim Kay: Wood, watercolour, gold and silver leaf, paper, steel, fabric, glass, wire, feathers

Le Gun: MDF, plywood, steel, acrylic, ink, paint, glass, found object

Stuart Kolakovic: Digital 

Hansje Van Halem: Painted ceramic tiles

Henning Wagenbreth: Wood, acrylic, canvas

Odes Ezer: Looped films

Erick Kessels: Recycled paper, mixed media

Na Kim: Acrylic print on uv light box

Peter Bil'ak: Steel

Johnny Kelly: Digital tables, LED TV monitor, computers, steel, MDF, Perspex, screen prints on paper jointly commissioned with Sky Arts.

Making it up: Photographic Fictions:

Hannah Starkey (Born in 1968)

May 1997 (Couch)

Starkey uses female actors to create a carefully large scale staged tableaux. The photography depicts plausible, even familiar, incidents from everyday life.

Gregory Crewdson (Born in 1962)- From the series Beneath the roses

Crewdson worked with a. Huge scale with actors and a large crew. He used a normal suburb into a stage-set for his 'frozen moments' uncountable and often disturbing events usually taken place at twilight. Crewdson also draws on the mythology of small town America to explore the tension between the everyday and the unreasonable.

Tom Hunter (Born in 1965) - The Vale Of Rest and After the Party From the series life and Death in Hackney 2000

The compositions of these stages tableaux are based on pre-Raphaelite paintings by J.E. Millais and Henry Wallis, The photographs were taken in the Lea Vallery, East London, and features travellers, who used the area for open-air parties. Using dramatic natural lighting and rich colours, hunter presents a surprisingly beautiful version of an overgrown urban landscape.

Kearney Frances - Five people thinking the same thing

Kearney Frances - Five people thinking the same thing 2

Kearney Frances - Five people thinking the same thing 3

Xing Danwen (Born in 1967)- Urban Fiction nu, 23, 2005

The building in the photograph. The artist 'Xing Danwen' digitally inserts herself into the image to express her feelings about urban life in China today, which in her experices or (memories) felt lonely, psychologically isolating and unreal.

Illustration Awards:

Minho Kwon

Minho Kwon

Minho Kwon

Student Runner-Up – Minho Kwon for The Neo Arts and Crafts Movement

'Minho Kwon's elegantly crafted series of drawings show objects from different eras - a Baroque organ and a Ferrari 360 engine, Victorian architecture and the Apollo 13 module ship - melded together to create curious new hybrids.'

Pietari Posti

Pietari Posti

Pietari Posti

Best Book Cover Illustration – Pietari Posti for Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome, published by Vintage

'This book cover was one of a series created by Posti about which he says, ‘I wanted to keep the vintage spirit of the 1930s on the covers but without feeling old or outdated. I think the limited colour palette of bright orange and fresh blues were a good choice, keeping all the covers united but still giving enough room for variation. The water is obviously an important element in the series too, so I gave it a strong graphic treatment to bring it to the fore.’

Best Book Illustration – Anna and Elena Balbusso for Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, published by the Folio Society

'The Balbusso sisters are identical twins who work together to create lush, sumptuously coloured illustrations. Their work compliments the rich imagery of Pushkin’s writing and draws on carefully researched period detail whilst using modern techniques – the hand-drawn work is digitised, then coloured in Photoshop.'

George Butler

 

George Butler (Born in 1985)

'Life carries on relatively normally despite everything. Here Ismail, with the help of a little boy, waters his  goat a tap'

Best Editorial Illustration – George Butler for Syria: the point of no return by Martin Chulov, published on 30 August 2012 in Guardian G2

'In June 2012, George Butler travelled to Azaz in Syria where he made a series of watercolour illustrations that show a community coping with the aftermath of shelling by government forces. For this powerful piece of reportage, Butler was chosen as 2013’s Overall Winner of the Awards for which he receives an additional £2,000.'

The Art of Remembering:

At the Serpentine...

I looked at all the relevant exhibitions e.g. Making it up, Photographic Fictions, illustation Awards, The Art of Remembering and the Memory Palace.

I learned that memories are very important and experiences, as we can use them to express our emotions through an art work or photography e.g. Xing Danwen Urban Fiction nu, 23.

I liked the work of johnny Kelly as it relates back to the time captural I created as both use a device (johnny Kelly) or plastic wallet (time captural) to digitally and physically store memories from the past.

 In Kelly's case digitally storing the memories from indival people marking e,g their name to symbolise they visited the Memory Palace.

Nemo Tral's work also caught my eye as it showed different sections or London, memories of what it could be?