Innovation and interference - Artist Studies

A while ago I was browsing the internet not really purposely searching, I came across some interesting videos or art pieces that I thought looked really cool. When thinking about what to do for this project I came across these pieces again, which in turn sparked my interest in wanted to base this project on weather in some way. 

Daniel Wurtzel (main inspiration)

Using air as the main focus of his work Daniel Wurtzel does very simple and calm pieces of art that float or fly around in the center of the room. He creates these works as a way to make you look at the beauty of things that would originally gone unseen, like a plastic bag blowing in the wind. He tries to entrance his audience through having them watch his pieces, not making them question what it is but to relax the viewer.

The piece Magic carpet inspired me to make a piece that had some fitting music to it. So I looked further into his work finding that he has also done some work with smoke machines and projectors. 

Magic Carpet

Feather Fountain

Snow

Fog and Fire Tornadoes

His work with the fire tornadoes got me thinking about natural disasters, but of course doing a piece that consists of hazards won't be very good let alone allowed, bet then he did a piece which he uses fog from a smoke machine to create a harmless tornado and then projects colours onto that fog to give it a fire effect.

Dustin Yellin

Dustin's piece called Psychogeographies gave me the idea to some sort of human based piece or sculpture. He also gave me the idea to create the sculptures faceless or with very undefined features this way people or audiences can relate to the pieces easier. 

His pieces also give this effect that the person the sculpture is representing is being effected by what they're made of. 

Ben young

And referring back to Ben for another artist study but the way his uses the glass for his pieces, making them look like water, from a material that's quite the opposite is very clever, giving me the idea to try and recreate disasters in physical form to apply to the sculptures.

Lotte Geeven

I picked Lotte as she has done some quite adventuress sound pieces and found her when looking for sound ideas to go with my piece. 

One of her outstanding pieces that I've taken a lot of inspiration from is The Sound of the Earth as no one, not that I know of, has recorded the sound of the Earth so far underground. More information about the piece.

Another piece of hers that I briefly looked at shows her sending two sensory robots either side of the Atlantic Ocean to see if they might in the middle. Letting nature control the outcome of her art piece.

Tony Oursler 

After a tutorial with my tutor she said that the artist Tony Oursler related to my idea. As his work consists of projecting images onto objects I'll look into is work to see if it can help me with projections and making objects to project on too. The same as Daniel Wurtzel he had projected onto fog or smoke which started off my inspiration.

Luke Jerram

When looking at this artist for another part of this blog I didn't realize that he did a piece on the Tohoku Japanese earthquake, the most devastating earthquake that caused 2 or 3 large tsunami waves to hit the coast of Japan and wash away most of it's coastal towns.

Artist studies 2

Cornelia parker

The construction of scrap metal suspended in air, in an empty room with light in the centre, causing what looks like an explosion. The destruction of something captured beautifully in mid air almost like a freeze frame from a film.

Artist Studies

This post contains some of the artists that help inspire my project development and ideas. Looking into artists who relate to the project topic and then use their work to for development.

Chris Welsby

Using nature as a main feature of his work really drew me into his art. Nature being one of my interests I looked to his art as an inspiration for my idea.

Richard Long

A lot like Chris, Richard uses nature as a theme. Forming angled rocks and other forms of land, in certain patterns and shapes, making strangely satisfying shapes out of jagged rocks. 

Mariele Neudecker

Enclosing landscapes in glass boxes full of liquid, jagged mountains with fog covered bases, lit brightly with cold blue lights. Loving the colours and lighting theme of her art work as well as the interest of how she made them made me come to love her work. Leah also showed us a few pieces of her work, one being a Winterreise (2003) where she feels a boat journey round a specific latitude in the north sea, played along side an opera telling a story. I loved this piece as it's relaxing to look at and hear, the gentle music and steady motion of the boat made it feel like meditating. I wanted to take some of those aspects, being relaxing and soothing to enjoy, as sort of calming zone. 

Tacita Dean

The distortion of this image is simple but intriguing, unable to see the background and location it's in and then the look of the tree itself, black and white, withered, dying. Yet I think it looks beautiful and mysterious, making me want to know where this is. 

Jane and Louise Wilson 

These artist take some stunning photos of abandoned places such as the waste land that used to be Chernobyl and many other places that our run down and falling apart. Capturing the difference in how things look even after not being interacted with for so long. 

Susan Hiller

The lights she uses in her works are surprisingly hypnotic and warm too me. Also another one of her pieces, Witness, features a room filled with hundreds of hanging speakers in a low lit room. The speakers retelling stories of peoples extraterrestrial encounters.

Boyle Family

Recreating a small plot of land using a cast and then using a type of the material to remodel that piece of land so they can hang it on the wall.

Pippiloti Rist

After seeing her work (shown in image above) I got the inspiration of how to present my maps and journeys work as an installation piece. But instead of using only 2 walls I'd try to use all walls if possible.

Ben Young

Using slivers of glass glued next together in an intricate design that forms a landscape or object. I personally love this art as the craftsmanship and attention to detail is amazing, and then to create such beautiful pieces of work in that soft turquoise.