TATE LIVERPOOL

CHARLINE VON HEYL

22^ndof April I went to the tate Liverpool to see the Charline Von Heyl exhibition. At first I didn’t think I would understand and be unimpressed with these paintings but as I walked into the exhibition I was found to be wrong. I actually really enjoyed this exhibition. She has put together a collection of abstract paintings. Taking a quality and painting it in its basic form so that the image becomes unreacogniseable. I love these pices for the sizes that they are and think they would look great as an interior focal point in a room. From this exhibition I have gained an interest and an understanding in how important colour is. What goes together and what contrasts. This is somehtin that in my own work I can think about. She also uses great lines and outlines in her pieces which brings more importance to the artwork. Something that myself haven’t explored in my work yet. I have only been exploreing colour and how to fix ink to cling film.

The Silk Vortices of Akiko Ikeuchi

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I am happy to share this artist with you guys!
He has been hanging his delicately crafted string sculptures in galleries around Japan, Korea, and New York. The installations are constructed from extremely delicate silk threads, and despite the chaotic appearance of the knotted webs Akiko plans each work as an architect would plan a building with precision blueprints that involve a complex internal framework. The resulting works evoke powerful forces of nature: tornadoes, whirlpools, and perhaps even galaxies themselves.

The Hakone Open-Air Museum Playground, Japan

The Hakone Pavilion Japan, an enormous colourful climbing net designed and made by artist Toshiko Horiuchi Macadam, it is all hand made using crochet with lengths of recycled nylon.  There are different levels where kids can play and swinging balls for kids to climb on hanging from the net.  You enter the playground by crawling through holes in the massive structure.

The playground is sheltered by a huge construction made from 589 timber logs without using any metal fixtures using old temple building techniques.  In my project I was trying to link playgrounds with textiles so I was really excited to come across this beautiful playground!

Test Site Slides

An exhibition in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern 2007, Designed by Carsten Holler.  Many people think art galleries are a little stuffy, but these huge slides transformed the massive gallery space into a playground!  The tallest slide started on the 5^th floor and was more than 56 metres long.  Holler said his work was “a playground for the body and the brain” and he said that slides can help combat mental health problems.  His work explores themes of freedom and release experienced whilst sliding.  Adults lose control for a few seconds as they hurtle down the stainless steel and plastic tubes.  Watching other people slide was almost as thrilling as taking part.  He called his exhibition ‘Test Site’ as he saw it as a model for something much bigger!  Miuccia Prada has commissioned one of Holler’s slides to transport her from her office Window in Milan down to the street below where her chauffeur will be waiting! 

COLOUR IN YOUR CITY

Took place on Friday 27^th April from 1 – 4pm

This was a chance to add some colour to the Mancunian Way, a chance to get creative and just draw what you like. I just painted in squares with different colours, just for fun.

Wasteland

On my journey through Manchester, I crawled through a tiny hole underneath this tall fence and stood up to see this huge wasteland, filled with random objects and rubbish. Down by this ditch which led to underneath a bridge, I saw that two homeless people had fashioned their own hut out of the rubble and was just sitting out in the sun, fishing, looking content. Climbing again through the hole and brought back into the city I see students walk passed carrying Selfridges bags. This was such a massive contrast which I found incredibly interesting.

James Chadderton

I found some pictures on the BBC news website from an exhibition in Manchester’s Northern Quarter 2011.  The artist James Chadderton had digitally manipulated photos of well known places in Manchester such as the Urbis, Town Hall, Printworks and Palace Theatre.  They are his visions of what the city would look like at the end of the world, after an apocalypse.  A review called it “A series of images that depicted Manchester evacuated, eroded and derelict as if left to degrade for years” and “A human devoid wasteland where the buildings have been left to decay.” I love the rusty, earthy colours.  It’s interesting to imagine the end of the world; the pictures remind me of films like ‘The Road’ and ‘War of The Worlds’.