Visiting the Tate.
As one of our Art history lectures we visited the Liverpool Tate and had a guided tour which included a tour of the Biennial exhibit in the Tate.
Haegue Yang's created an environment using sculptures, multi media and many traditional arts and crafts. Haegue made figures and things from folk tales woven with artificial straw. The environment was also made by a display of wallpaper which seemed to show imagery of pagen traditions, a surround sound of wildlife and ribbons which draped from the ceilings. I found this work of Yang's extremely interesting due to the multi-sensory experience from walking around this exhibit, there is so much going on in the work, it would be almost impossible to become bored of observing it as every time you go into the environment you see more. This is an idea i find really interesting and might even look into this further and consider using similar techniques with my own work.
Secondly there was Dale Harding's work which involved the use of a powerful blue and tan chalk like material known as Reckitt's Blue which is an ultramarine pigment and whitener that was once used in Liverpool's public wash houses which then traveled to places like Australia, where Harding's mother used it in a job at a laundry. The drawing was displayed on a wall of the gallery showing expressive images using a technique practiced by the artist's ancestors. Part of the piece looked like a skyline of Liverpool seen from the Gallery's window, yet still showing the technique of Queensland's rock art sites.
Lastly Brian Jungen's work in the Biennial was a series of sculptures resembling cheyenrie-style war bonnets, made out of feathers. The artist made these sculptures using Nike trainers. My interest for this piece came from the contrast of the sculptures resemblance and the sculptures material, being the fact that the sculpture is of headdresses from history yet they are made out of Nike trainers a modern material, this contrast of new and old is interesting and I may consider using this in my own work.
Other then just the Biennial exhibit at the Tate I also observed some of the more long-term work shown at the gallery. Many of the pieces where interesting and inspiring. Just one of them pieces was a work by Jim Lambie, who made a psychedelic pattern that covers the floor of the exhibit Op Art. The floor features a range of bright colours typically featured in pop art. The floor design had an illusion of dips and falls, which cause many reactions from the viewers, it was this element of the work that interests me as this is something iv been working with in my own work.
Some of the displays at the Tate Biennial that I found interesting included the works of Haegue Yang, Dale Harding and Brain Jungen.
Haegue Yang's created an environment using sculptures, multi media and many traditional arts and crafts. Haegue made figures and things from folk tales woven with artificial straw. The environment was also made by a display of wallpaper which seemed to show imagery of pagen traditions, a surround sound of wildlife and ribbons which draped from the ceilings. I found this work of Yang's extremely interesting due to the multi-sensory experience from walking around this exhibit, there is so much going on in the work, it would be almost impossible to become bored of observing it as every time you go into the environment you see more. This is an idea i find really interesting and might even look into this further and consider using similar techniques with my own work.
Secondly there was Dale Harding's work which involved the use of a powerful blue and tan chalk like material known as Reckitt's Blue which is an ultramarine pigment and whitener that was once used in Liverpool's public wash houses which then traveled to places like Australia, where Harding's mother used it in a job at a laundry. The drawing was displayed on a wall of the gallery showing expressive images using a technique practiced by the artist's ancestors. Part of the piece looked like a skyline of Liverpool seen from the Gallery's window, yet still showing the technique of Queensland's rock art sites.
Lastly Brian Jungen's work in the Biennial was a series of sculptures resembling cheyenrie-style war bonnets, made out of feathers. The artist made these sculptures using Nike trainers. My interest for this piece came from the contrast of the sculptures resemblance and the sculptures material, being the fact that the sculpture is of headdresses from history yet they are made out of Nike trainers a modern material, this contrast of new and old is interesting and I may consider using this in my own work.
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