Final day of the studios at Grand Parade as Level 6 Graphic Design & Illustration prepare for their degree shows.
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Final day of the studios at Grand Parade as Level 6 Graphic Design & Illustration prepare for their degree shows.
Posted by Roderick Mills
Marcel Dzama at the David Zwirner Gallery, London 2013.
Fascinating film in the exhibition employing the aesthetics of Oskar Schlemmer (Bauhaus) in the context of a fictional chess game - watched it twice!
Oskar Schlemmer quote:
“If today’s arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies an instinctive repudiation of chaos and a longing to find the form appropriate to our times.”
“Life has become so mechanized, thanks to machines and a technology which our senses cannot possibly ignore, that we are intensely aware of man as a machine and the body as a mechanism. In art, especially in painting we are witnessing a search for the roots and sources of all creativity; this grows out of the bankruptcy brought on by excessive refinement.”
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One of our current Level 6 Graphic Design students, Christian Wildic, has secured an internship with world renowned Stefan Sagmeister (Sagmeister & Walsh NYC)
http://www.sagmeisterwalsh.com/
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Jonathan Barnbrook encourages Graphic Design graduates to be less ‘commercial and have a bit of courage in your own belief about what design you want to do’
Extract from an article in Computer Arts 2013
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Ian Breakwell ‘Keep Things As They Are’ - De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, East Sussex
6 October 2012 - 13 January 2013
Ian Breakwell (1943-2005) was an artist and writer; a man with an eye for seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Best known for his Diary project which he maintained throughout his career, Breakwell was determined to be recognised by the widest possible audience through his use of a diverse range of media: from painting to film, videos, television, text works, photography and writing. Keep Things As They Are will be the largest retrospective exhibition to date and all aspects of his work will be presented, including works rarely or never exhibited before.
Breakwell has a long association with the De La Warr Pavilion; this exhibition marks ten years since his celebrated film commission The Other Side (2002) and he was the inspiration behond the inaugural exhibition Variety for the Pavilion’s re-opening in 2005. Tragically, Breakwell died the day that the Pavilion re-opened.
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20 October 2012 — 3 February 2013
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex, UK
A season of exhibitions exploring the territory of non-traditional creativity, Art Brut and the marginal arts, focussing on the work of Jean Dubuffet, Pat Douthwaite and the artists involved in Outside In: National.
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‘Dia de los Muertos’ (Day of the Dead) exhibition by Phil Taylor
Photographs of the exhibition site November 2012 featuring the film ‘Urban Ghosts’ (http://vimeo.com/52924818) as part of Brighton Photo Biennial & Brighton Photo Fringe events.
Phil Taylor ©2012
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Photographs from the exhibition are now displayed in the King’s Head PH Gallery in Lewes, East Sussex until January 2013.
More info and exhibition images:
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Jeff Keen exhibition ‘Shoot the Wrx’ at Brighton & Hove Museum and Art Gallery, 27 October - 24 February 2013
‘A career-long retrospective of artist and film-maker Jeff Keen (1923-2012), who was one of the great figures of the British post-war avant-garde. Keen’s work reveals a wild spirit of anarchic play, a fascination with surrealism, and a love of popular culture. His life-long commitment to Brighton & Hove will be celebrated in this display featuring a selection of his films alongside his paintings, drawings, poetry and assemblages.
Keen, who worked for Parks and Gardens for several years, spent most of his artistic career in Brighton and used the city as a major inspiration for his work. He ignored the hierarchies of the London arts scene and the wider world of avant-garde cinema in favour of a radical commitment to locality and intimate community. Keen’s work focuses lovingly on a close-knit circle of real and imaginary friends at work and at play in and around Brighton & Hove.’
http://www.brighton-hove-rpml.org.uk/WhatsOn/Pages/BMAGShoottheWrxjeffkeen27octto24feb13.aspx
Last chance to see ..
‘Dia de los Muertos’ (Day of the Dead) exhibition, film and Artists’ book - Phil Taylor
Exhibition closes Sunday 18 November (open daily 10-5, Sat & Sun 11-4)
The film ‘Urban Ghosts’ (Fantasmas Urbanos) is receiving some very positive reviews and attention ..
“Compelling video. Good to watch it again after seeing it in Brighton. I enjoyed the way the video changes pace and mood and how this can be signalled by the music and types of images.”
“This 24 minute film is well worth a watch, combining still photographs from archives and taken during a three month stay in Arizona, video and a soundtrack written for the piece, Phil explores the nature of the frontier state and its myths and narratives. The work draws on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, the brutal depiction of events in the area during the reign of terror of the Glanton gang in the nineteenth century. Images from the Titan intercontinental ballistic missile sites remind us of how times change and yet they don’t.” Gareth Dent, Chief Executive, Open College of the Arts”
“I was fascinated by Urban Ghosts and the way that Phil Taylor had created the atmospheric quality of it. It was different from the prints as well. I managed to speak with him for a short time but wish there had been more time available to discuss his journey and how he put everything together. He’s certainly multi-talented (I’ve bought one of his albums from iTunes).”
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