STUFT All Over Again- Red Gallery, Hull UK until July 13th, 2014

A belated entry to my blog.....Stuft all over Again is the second show at the Red Gallery of Contemporary Arts, Hull by ex-students and staff of the Fine Art course at the Hull School of Art (as apposed to the School of Art and Design) which closed in 2005 to become part of Hull College. The first show was in 2004 under the title of simply Stuft.

Contributers and punters outside of the Red Gallery on Osbourne Street, opening night June 13th 2014.

This show was curated by Louise Hazelwood an-ex fine art student (1991-1994) and Hull-based artist (pictured above in the Hull Daily Mail).

My three pieces.

Is the above piece Rosse Butler's work or Rob Gawthrop's?

One of Stuart Bradshaw's unstretched canvases: Lasker meets Reinhardt.

 

Many thanks to the curator, the contributors, the tutors and to the Red Gallery for such a great show.

Until July 13, 2014 

Red Gallery of Contemporary Art,

19 Osbourne Street

Hull,

HU1 2NL

UK 

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Tatlin

Many of the shapes that photography is forced into by Photosynthing recalls the abstraction of constructivism. Featured here is a  Tatlin, or at least a reconstruction by Martyn Chalk. The work is Corner Relief from 1915. The reconstruction was made in 1982 (there may be more than one reconstruction of this particular sculpture as I have seen one dated 1979 and another 1980). Is not the title Corner Counter-Relief, a term that Talin adopted in 1914, "as if to signal a dialectical advance in his constructions since they extended from the wall" to act as a "counter" to architecture, painting and sculpture (Foster et.al, 2004 p. 127).

 Tatlin's work was informed by Picasso's cubist collages and sculptures and constructions. Tatlin would use  "proletariat stuff of the workshop- wood, scraps of iron and copper, wire and rope, string and nails" ( Weston, R., 1996 p. 146).

Sources:

Foster et.al, (2004) Art Since 1900, London: Thames and Hudson

Weston, R., (1996) Modernism London: Phaidon.