Peter Zimmermann

Peter Zimmermann is a German painter, sculptor, object artist and university professor.

Zimmermann creates colour scapes with paint and layers of resin to create a liquid movement effect. I am mostly interested in the floor he creates when exhibiting his work. The way the colours flow into one and other seamlessly. As I want to make a coloured reflective floor for my installation piece, I feel looking at works like this inspire me and give me ideas of the kind of finish that I was to achieve. Although I don’t want the floor to be the main feature of my installation but more of an enhancement to add to the piece.

Peter Zimmermann: Schule von Freiburg (2016)

Ian Kiaer

Ian Kiaer studied at the Slade School of Art (1995) and the Royal College of Art MA (2000); PhD (2008). Kiaer works within painting, sculpture, found-objects, and installation. Ian Kaier’s most known works are installation spaces. His installations explore social interaction with the constructed environment, relating to utopian ideals and their failure.

I am looking at Ian Kiaer’s installation pieces as I am interested in his use flooring that he adds to a piece. I have noticed how Kiaer takes deep thought in choosing a flooring or surface based on the work he is making. Kiaer has used coloured flooring in some of his installations, this can be subtle or very bold and purposeful depending on the space he is trying to convey.

I am hoping to create a surface to my installation space, I want something that is bright and empowering. Also something that will help to bring out colours in my patchwork surrounding. I am also interested in making the surface reflective by either using a mirror or a high gloss, so that the colours bounce off the surface to create a highly saturated and overpowering space.

Ian Kiaer ‘Limp Oak’ at Lulu Mexican City. Installation. 2015 

Dan Flavin

Dan Flavin was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from fluorescent light fixtures. Flavin’s fluorescent structures explore colour, light and sculptural space. Flavin focuses on how light and colour can transform an exhibition space. Although he slowly developed his work into site specific installations rather than a gallery space.

I am interested in how colour and light itself can create a sense of space and change a space into something new. I also enjoy how his work is purely about transforming a space, and no deeper meaning. I feel that this relates to the work I am creating, as it is based on how colour can create a sense of illusion and overpower-ment.

Mirror Installations

Infinity Mirrored Rooms by Yayoi Kusama

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ghost Figures in the

Woods by Rob Mulholland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mirror Labyrinth by

Jeppe Hein

 

Installation Art

What is installation art? Installation art is used to describe large-scale, mixed-media constructions. These are usually site specific or only made for a certain period of time due to being such a large scale. I am making an installation space for the degree show, therefore I thought I would explore different types of artists who create installation art.

Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam

Playground Crochet (1990)

Toshiko creates large installation ‘playscapes’ using crochet. She allows people to play and experience the playground like installations. Her work is fun and interactive. I want mine to have a playful feel to my work as viewers can move the boxes with they wanted to change the shapes of the centre structures. 

Barry McGee. They Don’t Make This Anymore. (2008.)

Barry creates installation from his interest in Graffiti Culture and wants his work to echo the city. I am interested by Barry’s use of colour and shape that cast an illusionistic visual.

Sarah Sze

Triple Point (2013)

Sarah creates spaces using found objects and everyday ordinary things to create site-specific art installations. Sarah Sze’s intricate pieces create a new sense of space almost like a solar system.

Megan Geckler

Geckler is a Site Specific installation artist who uses flagging tape (plastic ribbon) to make large scale installation spaces. She uses the architecture around her to form the shape of her installations.

When I first saw Geckler’s work I was instantly attracted to the neon colours that create optical illusions especially when they are weaved together you would think they were a solid thing and not a combination of layered tapes. I like how the tape almost forms it’s shape itself when wrapped around a structure. Geckler uses spaces that portray intense lighting so that the colours of the tape are as luminous as possible. Something I will need to consider when planning my exhibition space is the level of lighting as ideally I would like a space where I am able to get natural lighting through a window, but also near artificial lighting. Also the option to add spot lights for extra brightness so that the colours I use are intensified.

Psychedelic Art-Bruce Riley

After being told that my work is confusing people’s vision due to the contrasts in colour playing tricks on the eye. I decided to look at artists who create work based on the psychedelic and how colour and colour only can create such saturated illusionary forms. 

I came across a video of Bruce Riley at work. Riley fills canvases with organic shapes formed by dripping paint onto poured resin. The results are intriguing. Riley talks about how the work forms itself, how he selects colours that he feels will go well together. Sometimes they work sometimes they don’t. The process is never planned, just an assumption of what colours create the best outcomes.  

I feel that this has been the case with my current patchwork piece. Some areas cause my eyes to flicker between the colours and other areas of the piece do nothing at all. It’s just trial and error and comparing what fabric or colours work best. Something that has definitely helped me is asking other students what parts they feel more impacting. This gives me an idea of what people react to most. 

Bruce Riley on psychedelic art and colour.

https://youtu.be/v3RcRwCP0RU

Jim Lambie

Jim Lambie ‘Selected Floors.’

After my last tutorial with David he suggested I looked at the artist Jim Lambie. Lambie is a Scottish Artist who’s practice evolves from a response to the psychology of space and colour. He is mostly influenced by movements in art and the history of place. I was advised to look at his work as my current practice revolves around colour and the finish of different fabrics.

I am considering making a floor like this for my final exhibition space. But maybe with less colours or one solid colour. I also want the finish to shine similarly to Lambie’s flooring so that it really reflects any light that is above the space I am given.

Enter the Void-Psychedelic Film

I watched several clips from the rather disturbing ‘Enter the Void’ purely for the psychedelic imagery that came with it. Gaspar Noé’s visual effects in this film are hallucinatory and intrusive. Watching these clips were very difficult on the eye but beautiful at the same time. The use of intense colour with bright lighting and often spinning motions create intense visual distortions and often blurring within my vision anyway. The wobbly filming combined with all these things makes the film really uncomfortable to watch.

 

 

Amanda Browder

Born in Missoula, MT in 1976, Amanda Browder received an MFA/MA from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York producing large-scale fabric installations for building exteriors and other public sites. htp://www.amandabrowder.com/index.php?/cvcontact/about/

Browder is most known for her large patchwork pieces that she displays on buildings, vehicles as well as smaller scale gallery pieces. Browder uses a combination of found and bought fabrics to create her patchwork installations, making colour and pattern a main feature of them. Browder’s installation reflect abstraction and minimalism. Her forms are based on comic book imagery. She uses the transformative nature of materials and how familiar objects can combine to create abstract relationships. Her pieces create a psychedelic experience through bright colours and familiar materials to recreate a change in perception.

Although I could never imagine making work on such a large scale, I am inspired by her use of colour to create an impact to a place or to a viewer. How the patchwork can transform a space and give it a new perspective.