Existential/Propositional Objectiles/ Spaces/In-Situ : Architecture/Photography/Installation

Objects exist in the between of a proposition and its eventness, and in so doing they are inciting co-constellations of movement-moving.

Forsythe invites his students to participate in creating physical solutions to dramaturgic propositions. 

Erin Mannng.

Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia

Tate Modern

Millennium Bridge

VITRINES : Art Spaces/interiors/interventions
Anselm Kiefer :
In the Annenberg Courtyard
Velimir Khlebnikov: Fates of Nations: The New Theory of War
Anselm Kiefer often dedicates his works to intriguing figures of the past, be they poets or philosophers. This piece is one of a number of works emerging from Kiefer’s ongoing exploration of the Russian Futurist avant-garde writer, theorist and absurdist Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922).

After years of study, Khlebnikov concluded that a major sea battle took place every 317 years, or multiples thereof. Kiefer celebrates this heroic and ludicrous activity with a work that is both monument and anti-monument. Measuring almost 17 metres in total and consisting of two large glass vitrines, Kiefer creates a transparent, reflective sea-scape in three dimensions that calls to mind the Romantic sublime of painters from JMW Turner to Caspar David Friedrich. Kiefer uses the frames of the vitrines to stage a mysterious drama, in which viewers, seeing each other and their own reflections, become participants.

Paul Soldner
Sainsbury Centre
University of East Anglia

















2017/2023

Vessels/Thresholds/Circulating Objects : An object becomes the threshold for thinking feeling.

An object becomes the threshold for thinking feeling.

We perceive-with objects catching the edges of their contours, participating in the relations they call forth.

Relationscapes/Erin Manning.

Cyanotype/Artist's Book, Paul Soldner pot with astronomical data.

Postcard/Star Atlas :  Cyanotype (used as index for recorded disc)

Verso

 

A for Andromeda, BBC4 27.03.06 90 minutes

 

1973 Romantic Poets

 

Disc Full

Aesthetics and the Spatial : Sensual Things of Light and Gravity

Immaterial Architectures
Painting/Form for Reading Spaces/Intervals
Pattern and Chaos/Liminality/Tectonics
Architectural surface for a Library,  raw materials, light, silence and solitude.

Christopher Wilmarth ; Poetics/Duality of Light and gravity
Other Architecture
Constructing Metaphysical Space

Wilmarth's art reveals his essential concern with the mystical and physical properties of light, especially the ways in which light evokes reverie and generates sensations of space and containment.

The Architecture of Natural Light : Henry Plummer

EVANESCENCE
Orchestration of light to mutate through time

Intensity and integrity of Wilmarth's practice/vision.

PROCESSION
Choreography of light/moving eye

VEILS OF GLASS
Refraction of light/diaphanous film

Wilmarth made possibly his strongest, most beautiful works on paper, exploring a new level of expression while retaining continuity with past work.

ATOMIZATION
Sifting of light/through a porous screen

These drawings also contain allusions to the human presence. Their haunting, foreboding quality is prefigured in the grave, austere tones of some of the glass and steel structures.

CANALIZATION
Channelling of light/through a hollow mass

The duality of light and shadow and contrasts between abstraction and representation continue to be central concerns in his final drawings.

ATMOSPHERIC SILENCE
Suffusion of light with a unified mood

Wilmarth's sculptures from the early 1980's are influenced by the poetry of Stephane Mallarme.To affirm Mallarme's emphasis on the spiritual, the artist used a simple ovoid form, evoking a multitude of symbols, including the human head. These ovoids were made of blown glass, which Wilmarth viewed as "frozen breath". The artist pursued this figurative impulse into the mid 1980s, combining the anthropomorphic ovoid shapes with the larger abstract forms of his earlier sculpture.

LUMINESCENCE
Materialization of light in physical matter

Wilmarth composed with planes of delicate colour and light, placing plates of blackened steel behind translucent sheets of etched glass imbued with a luminous, greenish cast.

"He employed a painterly technique that emphasized the tactility and fichness of his materials, which like an alchemist he persistently sought to transform. He continually examined the concept of duality: contrasts between light and shadow, transparency and opacity, heaviness and weightlessness, materiality  and ethereality, form and spirit are repeatedly presented; the synthesis of geometric with organic forms, the range between abstraction and representation are constantly explored."
Laura Rosenstock, catalogue essay.


White Noise : Nocturnes of Silence

Anselm Kiefer | "Die Ungeborenen" | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | Paris Pant...

Hyde Abbey Gatehouse "Chamber" : Photograph and photogram part of Leylines, Russell Moreton.

Hyde Abbey Gatehouse "Chamber" : Photograph and photogram part of Leylines, Russell Moreton., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.