Tuesday, 19 April 2011

Recent Inspirations 05



Anish Kapoor    When I am pregnant, 1992


I cannot stop thinking about this work, since I saw it in Kappor's solo exhibition at Royal Academy. It is certainly less obvious that there is a bump coming out from the wall when you see the real work, and I thought there was some dirt on the wall, until I almost bumped my head into the work. I love it, when I almost crash into the work shown. It is like a swell that takes you to another zone, a loop.

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Tomoko Yoneda    http://www.tomokoyoneda.com/

Yoneda talks about how she manages to bring the events that happen in front of her to actually happen because of her interest in it, inspires me. So many things are happening all the time, and  our anthena just has to focus on it, I guess. I specially like this image. It stops the time, but never sufforcating.





         Pablo Wendel     http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/4ns/studentDetails/Pablo+Wendel/90569


Wendal's Terracota video is really funny, but more than funny. I like how he pushed the work beyond a student work, in a way that he actually just goes for it, although we do not know from the video if it was a set up or not. Enjoyed it a lot.






                Tatsumi Orimoto       http://www.assemblylanguage.com/reviews/orimoto.html


I am not sure why, but I did not like his work at all when I saw it first, but I quite like it now. It is very strong, and seems to work in different ways, when shown in different places. I liked it when I saw it in Brighton, on a billboard by the road, really big.






Justine Kurland         http://www.cepagallery.org/exhibitions/kurland/index.html


Not at all my favorites, but have been looking at Kurland's images for compositions, and texture. I specially like this image.

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The way Starkey manages to create these images that look like they are going to start moving if you pressed a button, fascinates me. It makes me keep looking at the images, and specially the co-existence of the moving and the still is a point that interests me, reminds me of the chapter, The long exposure and the snap shot, in Photography in Theory

Monday, 18 April 2011

Recent Inspirations 01



                                          
                                              Erwin Wurm               http://www.erwinwurm.at/


Some images are more funny than others, the point where the humor starts to become more than humor interests me. Specially the one with the soup dripping from the woman's mouth is somehow haunting, and that brings me to the next level of imagination, which gives me joy.