Dasha by Urs Fischer

Urs Fischer’s art reflects underlying inner conflicts and contradictions through the shifting of material, the coexistence of beauty and ugliness, modesty and clumsiness, grace and load

Dasha 2018  is Dasha Zhukova life-size candle. During the exhibition, specially placed candle wicks are lit, and human figures slowly collapse into pools of wax oil — a visceral reminder of the ephemeral nature of life, beauty and art.

(Before lit)

Fischer’s candle sculptures are captivating in their materiality and haunting in their implications; they serve as both portraits and meditations on time and gravity, life and death.

“A wick at the top of her head will be lit, and the candle will slowly melt over the course of the exhibition. Additional wicks strategically placed on the figure will be lit until the sculpture is reduced to a pile of wax drippings.”

The time each visitor visited was different, and the state of the work was different.

Into ashes…

Idea: The passage of time, Life and death, Beauty is changing over time

Reference:

https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2018/urs-fischer-dasha/

PRINT SALES

Planes, Trains & Automobiles

“Print Sales presents a group show exploring our enduring fascination with man-made transportation and the journeys they evoke: metaphoric, philosophical and literal.”

“From the raw insouciance of a teenage couple kissing in the back seat of a car to the more random brief encounter of pedestrians captured through a taxi window, he presents his subjects with a unique autonomy and agency and offers viewers rare access to hidden lives”

Idea : To capture the inside from outside the bus

Bruce Dvidson, Brooklyn Gang, 1959

Bruce Dvidson, England/ Scotland, 1960

Sebastiao Salgado, Churchgate Station, Bombay, 1995

Elliott Erwitt, Steam Train Press, Wyoming, 1954

Elliott Erwitt, Santa Monica, California, 1955

Louis Stettner, Six Windows, Penn Station, 1958

“Penn Station was a pause, where people could get in touch with themselves, and a way that I could get in touch with them.”

Six Windows is my favorites. The six windows are like six different stories, six different lives.

Image merged within an installation.

“Rooted in research surrounding the anxiety disorders Derealisation (the condition wherein a person feels the reality surrounding them is unreal) and Depersonalisation (a feeling of detachment from oneself, or that oneself is unreal) the precarious nature of perception is performed through a series of works that accumulate to create a subtly unsettling experience.”

I can see many elements through these images Consider Falling, such as an empty space with mirrors, colour board, wood blocks, photographs and geometric shapes, the presence of mirrors allows me to see other images reflected.

The subtly unsettling experience  is also evident in the chipped nail varnish, a few stray hairs, and the reddish tint of the eyes.

Sarah Howe, from the series, Consider Falling, 2017

I’m not really sure why I took this picture, I didn’t understand what she was trying to say,  like the name of the picture, “she did things not simply”. Why did the photographer put a note paper on her head? But we can still barely see the part of the face that is blocked by the photographer, the short hair, from the way she dresses to the way she looks like an Asian woman. Anyway, I was thinking, wouldn’t it be fun to put this idea into my shoot? Label my picture differently and write down what I feel about it.

Stephanie Talber, She Did Things Not Simply, from the series Resonance, 2016

She was eating the same breakfast every day, coffee or tea, bread and strawberry jam.  It looked as if she was alone for breakfast, and there was only one plate and cup on the table, and the other chairs had not been drawn away. The flowers on the table, the floral patterned tablecloth, and the floral skirt, all of these gives  the image more lively colour. The first thing I see is all this colourful, warm stuff, but what’s wrong with her face? The lower half of her face was like wear a mask, serious and taciturn.

Lisa Caeletta, Everyday the same breakfast, from the series, The ordinary life of Alison,

2017

The feather on the image like razor-sharp Blades, same feather, same position, different light.

Idea: moving light around body or object.

Thom Bridge, Pied, 2018

The photographer retake the photo when the photo is still slightly curled. It gives a feeling of touch.This artwork inspired me to scan my body and face, see what it look likes, and what kind of texture’s gonna appear.
Victoria Fonieles, Touched and Seen with Body and Snow, 2018

When you cover your face with a towel, do you see anything? Can you breathe in?It makes me feel hard to breathe, but the color makes me feel clean and simple, extremely comfortable. Just like I don’t need to think anything, stop doing anything, just take a good rest.
Amelia Shepherd, Self-Portrait: Untitled 1, from the series While You Were Sleeping,2018

THE EDGE OF THE CITY by Rob MacDonald

It is interesting that I saw these work not from a formal place like museum or gallary, but from a comfy and casual cafe Trading Post Coffee in Brighton. That’s why it gives people a different feeling. The different environment  also gives me a different mood to appreciate the works, no longer serious and stiff, but comfortable natural.

These works, as its name implies, blend into the Coffee Shop.

I love the colour contrast in his photographs, so bright and vivacious, as bright as the city itself.

Be honestly, this photo shoot didn’t surprise me, but it’s warm enough to savoured, and each photograph is a detail of life in the city, details that are easily overlooked. Maybe it’s just the color and pattern of a wall, a visitor or some other person’s moment against the background, a lovely colored door, a emptied wine bottle, or a view from a window.

I went to Nick Ford Photography few days ago, the exhibition See Me Hide by Caroline Burrows, it’s about the relationship and interactions, at first I didn’t know that the model in the photo was herself. Her works are so sad and strong, we can feel the sad story behind photos, and how she’s been hurt in her life.

When I first saw these works, I felt depressed and it was difficult to breathe in. I was even more aware that every photo is faceless or blurred, like she was running away from herself.

But I found that these works were more like relieve of her sad feeling, let all past and made her stronger, because I saw some other work hanging on the wall, it’s all text.

His work really inspired me a lot, ten pictures have ten inspirations. 

He explore different material like foam, shards of wood, balloons, paper clip and everyting we can use in the daily life to reshaping human profile.

 Whether it’s creating a clothing concept or being used as creative photography material, it’s a must have Inspiration.

The human body is made of a paper Shell, the geometry is very specific. Gauze with air bubble feeling, it is another different creative texture

Bart Hess was dedicated to exploring the effects of different exotic materials with body, the effect of two things coming together.

Hess’s body works use a variety of different materials to reshape humans

“Grow on you”

https://vimeo.com/40286131

“Echo is the working title of an ongoing material research into creation of shape by repetition. The base of the project is a physical material which Hess alters into sculptural timelapses in his digital world. The project is named after a common software filter which uses the history of movement to visualize its journey through time.

Reference:

http://lucyandbart.blogspot.com

http://barthess.nl/index.html

In his artwork Digital Artifacts, models are suspended from cables and slowly lowered into a pool of melted wax, which is then lifted and solidified to form a sculptural costume.

The hardened shells retain a rough humanoid shape, a pastel white color, and a coral shape reminiscent of aliens.

The models in Digital Artifacts are strapped into White Bikini straps and slowly dip their toes into a pool of melted wax until they are submerged out in the water. The whole process seems bizarre and even torturous, but for Bart Hess, it was just the birth of another of his “living” sculptures

Reference:

http://barthess.nl/digitalartifacts.html

http://www.designindaba.com/articles/creative-work/future-couture

Lucy McRae is a science-fiction artist, director and self-proclaimed “body architect” who explores human adaptation and the frontiers of the body, emphasizing the connection between technology and imagination.

Most of her works are fantastic, grotesque, unexpected or surprising, and can take the audience out of their comfort zone and experience the visual experience of “Lucy” .

Blush Dress is a Dress that shines by sensing the emotions of its owner. The discovery team also won a design award from Time magazine for “Blush Dress” .

At the meantime, she collaborated with biologist and Harvard Professor Sharef Mansy to develop a perfume capsule called “swalable parapfum” in Muncie. The user swallows the capsule like a drug, and soon the body releases a scent as if it had been perfumed.

However, it doesn’t matter to Lucy McRae what perfume smells like. What matters is that she has redefined people’s skin and, in a way, transformed the human body with technology.

Astronaut Aerobics

Her recent work Prep Your Body FOR SPACE, was inspired by meeting a NASA economist on a bus.

“I’m keen on exploring how the body could start changing in order to withstand long periods of time and space. That’s what this project is looking at – it’s prepping the body to go to space.”

-Lucy McRae

This deep pressure device can be used to treat autism, depression, and reduce physical tension and anxiety.

Reference:

https://www.lucymcrae.net/astronaut-aerobics/

Philips Design Probe – Bubbelle Dress

Bold ideas about the human body

LUCYandBART is a collaboration between Dutch artists Lucy McRae and Bart Hess, who dabble in fashion, architecture and performance, often using their bodies as part of their creative process in a raw and unbridled way Show the wonderful relationship between the body and the various materials.

Exploded View

March 2008

Germination Day Eight

May 2008

Grow on you

December 2007

Hook and Eyes

November 2007

Evolution

January 2008

From so many creative works, I have a feeling that these two artists is not for the creation of works to create, more is like a kind of inner voice roar and outburst, transfer this emotion into the works.

“We work from instinct with no idea of the outcome.we don’t have to explain or give reason to a concept we want to create.”

-Lucy and Bart

Reference:

http://lucyandbart.blogspot.com

This will be the final poster.

The main motive of the poster was to show the concept to people through visual aids. The reason for using visual aids is that people hardly have time to read huge texts to understand the concept or product.

The three nude women in the poster have taken from the poster of a shoes brand, ‘Stuart Weitzman.’ There are many reasons for choosing this; first, it shows closeness and love, which is the prime aim of the campaign is to pass on the love and to help those are in need. Second, the relevance of taking this part is to show that we are targeting women and the product is for women only. Thirds, women are nude wearing the scarves only, which means scarves will be the only focus where the people will easily able to identify that we are trying to sell scarves. Now, the background of the poser has taken from the painting (The coming storm) of an American artist, Will Cotton. I wanted to use background related to love goddess, but choosing this painting has its relevance. The colors used in the painting are fluorescent and light, which usually depicts summer.

So, this further shows that the scarves we are selling, women can wear them in summer season as well, which also revealed from the nude women wearing only scarves.  Now, Famous brand Vogue has a similar poster, where a half nude female is wearing a scarf. However, it is not the viable poster because the women also wear sunglasses, which can confuse consumers about the product that the company wants to sell.