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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Old Photograms

Photograms

The photogram is perhaps seen as a past art. As photography dark rooms disappear the method of photographic production may disappear too. The technique of obtaining images without the intervention of a camera is deceivingly simple. Its history begins with Thomas Wedgewood and Humphrey Day and on through to the photographic drawings made by William Henry Fox Talbot and then Anna Atkin’s cynatypes.

The 20^th Century is really where photograms belong. Christian Schad when he was a Dadaist produced his “Schadographs” in Zurich. There is Man Ray of course whose ghostly images of objects and parts of the human body contributed to Paris Dada and the emergent Surrealist movement. But “it was the Hungarian Laszlo Moholy-Nagy who, in collaboration with students at the Bauhaus, undertook the most radical exploration of the technique’s potential, using it to study the relations of color (sic), light, and form” (Mora, Gilles, 1998 pp. 143-145). Moholy-Nagy has said that he regarded this direct process of photography as “the most perfect way of representing luminous flux” (p.145).

This “luminous flux” that Moholy-Nagy discusses became central to much of my thinking about image making. Man Ray has always fascinated me: the luminosity of his solarised figures and there is much to be admired in his inventiveness, however his photograms were often whimsical in my mind.

Wife: The Grey Ones, shown as part of the Frequency Festival 2013

 I saw WIFE: THe Grey Ones" at the Drill Hall, Lincoln whgen it was part of the Frequency Festival 2013. It was perhaps one the most convincing pieces of what.... multimedia performance, hybrid art?

"WIFE is visceral, live, contemporary, dance, interacting with original, projected, animations and music. She is the creation of Nina McNeely, Kristen Leahy, and Jasmine Albuquerque. Her three members are dancers, choreographers, teachers, editors, animators, and performers thriving in the underbelly of L.A subculture. She finds inspiration from myth, folklore, archetypes, and the subtleties of everyday human behavior. Influences include Jim Henson, Chris Cunningham, Akira Kurosawa, Kathy Rose, Wendy Carlos, Yayoi Kusama, Planningtorock, Aleister Crowley, her friends, and you. WIFE can only be seen in the dark. WIFE works well with others. WIFE likes to play. Visually, WIFE is bold. Physically, WIFE is daring. Dreams are her driving force. She is metamorphosis":

See it here on YouTube whe in was part of TEDxSoCal in 2012 (?):

A Memory of Moholy-Nagy

Made in 1990 scripted by Joy Batchelor and directed by John Halas this diocumentary explores the life and work of the artist and designer László Moholy-Nagy.

Halas and Batchelor:
http://www.halasandbatchelor.co.uk/

12/12/12 Bank Street Arts

Robert Hughes at ALA splitter 03