As I will be invigilating at 126’s members show Restless I want to use this time to see the affect of prolonged exposure to the works. As a pa
Gremzde’s Small World is a collection of over 40 uniform plastic tops with oil painted landscapes inside. What’s fantastic about this piece is it beautiful encapsulates so many different discourses. It’s about the validity and commodification of painting in a consumerist era. The encapsulation of dwindling nature. Gremzde’s installation is about painting to me, it’s about the new and the old and how the sit together, it is at the same time analytical, organised, romantic, contemporary, environmental, and satirical.
Gremzde’s Artist Statement can be found at axisweb.org
Gallagher’s piece is similar in many ways, questioning the impenetrable preciousness of paintings. it is an interactive installation rather than a simple display of paintings. It calls to attention our interaction with paintings because of its display. Requiring you to don gloves and pick out the piece’s yourself, Gallagher gives a form control back to the viewer, while with her content reminding us of the ugliest forms of industrialisation Galwegians have had on their horizons using oil and phototranspher.
noellegallagher.com
Information on the show and the full list of participating artists can be found on the 126 website and Facebook.
inter my predictable favourites were Inguna Gremzde’s Small World and Noelle Gallagher’s Untitled.Gremzde’s Small World is a collection of over 40 uniform plastic tops with oil painted landscapes inside. What’s fantastic about this piece is it beautiful encapsulates so many different discourses. It’s about the validity and commodification of painting in a consumerist era. The encapsulation of dwindling nature. Gremzde’s installation is about painting to me, it’s about the new and the old and how the sit together, it is at the same time analytical, organised, romantic, contemporary, environmental, and satirical.
Gremzde’s Artist Statement can be found at axisweb.org
Gallagher’s piece is similar in many ways, questioning the impenetrable preciousness of paintings. it is an interactive installation rather than a simple display of paintings. It calls to attention our interaction with paintings because of its display. Requiring you to don gloves and pick out the piece’s yourself, Gallagher gives a form control back to the viewer, while with her content reminding us of the ugliest forms of industrialisation Galwegians have had on their horizons using oil and phototranspher.
noellegallagher.com
Information on the show and the full list of participating artists can be found on the 126 website and Facebook.
Inguna Gremzde, Small Worlds
Noelle Gallagher, Untitled