Tags archives: contemporary
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7 years ago
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Dear Fabian, welcome to Art For Progress. As a contemporary artist based in Northern Germany, North Friesland. What is the focus of your art?
Hi Nerea, thanks for inviting me to this interview. I am delighted to contribute to Art for Progress. I am a sculptor focused on the human figure in the widest meaning. I try to find ways for contemporary depiction of the diverse spectrum of human expressions.
Having studied Fine Art Sculpture in Vienna, where modelling the human body has a long tradition – the so called “Wiener Schule,” I further worked in this direction in London, where I did my masters. I started to introduce new materials, inflatables and other ephemeral objects, as base bodies for my figurative constructions. When depicting an entire human figure, at some point you always need to decide whether or how much you show its gender. If you disregard it – partially or completely – you enter the world in-between genders. For the last five years in particular, I have been focusing on “Liquid Gender” and the liquidity of gender aspects in general.
I have noted that you chose the term “Liquid Gender” as a name for your recent exhibition in Barcelona. Can you please explain this choice.
“Liquid Gender” was indeed the title of the 2016 solo show, curated by Caterina Tomeo, at the end of a five-week residency at Espronceda (Centre for Art and Culture) in Barcelona. The central piece was a 2-channel video installation around my large-scale MENINA bronze series: A v[...]
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9 years ago
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I once read that people who see faces in inanimate, non-portrait objects, are neurotic, and the article did not mean that endearingly. If that's true, then children who make animal and human shapes out of clouds (so many) are neurotic. And truthfully, most artists are too. So with that, I will use this post to talk about an artists who plays with this idea in a rather beautiful way, and to tip my hat to those individuals who choose to and are able to view the world in a more fascinating way.
Jane Lafarge Hamill's paintings combine traditional portraiture with modern abstraction. Her works first appear as a slather of saturated, vibrant colors, enhanced by her thick application of paint. However, though appearing haphazard, the way she has manipulated the paint allows for a vague, albeit familiar, image of a human's face to come through. Depending on how she has arranged the lines sometimes the face is in profile, sometimes face front.
What really allows for the portraits to be visualized is not in the revelation of facial features, as they are pretty blurry, but in the way the lines make up the shape of the head - the forehead, jawline, and neck specifically. While this alone makes her painting style unique, what makes her work beautiful is her use of color. Her pieces are not exceptionally large, rather they are on the smaller side, yet they instantly pop out due to the layers of applied color and the vibrancy of the palette.
What is especially contemporary [...]
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