Invention, Experimentation, and Deconstruction:
From our description of the section, I will suggest a few artists/designers to search to get the idea of how one can reinvent through inspired investigation of the past.
Roxy Paine: through his reference to nature and natural forms, he allows one to not only believe in the beauty of the synthetic representation of the natural but to question the need for the natural at all...allowing a larger conversation into what is nature in a world overrun by humans that
are constantly designing ways to gain control and dominion over their environment.
Walton Ford: in his heroic recapitulation of naturalist studies and as a nod to John James Audubon, Walton Ford paints graphic realism into the habits of the animal kingdom choosing only to allow the application of the paint and palette choices to be made romantic and let the subject matter tell a wild animal story....this is in direct reaction and adverse to portraits of animals previously rendered in the traditional humanistic style.
Francis Alys: please read this interview:
http://www.postmedia.net/alys/interview.htm
and this blog:
http://allyrose. wordpress.com/2007/10/20/capturing-the-everyday/
Also, this week is our field trip to the Headlands Center for the Arts, please begin to talk about ridesharing as public transportation does not service Fort Barry. Above, you will see an image from the show by Francesca Pastine.
Other artists to reference or look into:
invention: Julie Mehretu, Olafur Eliasson, Mark Grotjahn, Chiho Aoshima, Franz Ackerman
deconstruction:Takashi Murakami, Douglas Gordon
experimentation:Andrea Zittel, Tom Friedman, Francis Alys
see you tomorrow for the last presentations and new project initiation...
