Medjesi-Jones, A (2017) PinkPaintingMachine. In: Make_Shift, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, UK, 13 October 2017 - 13 February 2018.
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| Item Type: | Exhibition |
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| Creators: | Medjesi-Jones, A |
| Corporate Creators: | Collyer Bristol Gallery |
| Abstract: | Painting installation at Collyer Bristow Gallery This research considers and proposes a model of painterly practice that is informed by ideological and political . Following on from the ‘Factory Floor’ project, this research and painterly installation ‘PinkPaintingMachine’ is created specifically for the Collyer Bristow Gallery. It re-examines the notion of abstraction as a construct and a device that simulates productive, bio-technological systems of the body. This is negotiated in relationship to material and performative acts of making and is communicated through means of formal abstraction and specific historical and cultural references that are formative of painterly Avant-Garde. Through production of material and formal variables whose explicit references are situated within painterly language and history, the installation assembles a coded machine, whose repetitive and restrictive, laborious and rigid gestures comment on disciplinarian and enclosed strategies of labour, situating the body within cultural and bio-political codes of production, instead of individual networks and relations. |
| Date: | October 2017 |
| Event Location: | Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, UK |
| Number of Pieces: | 3 |
| Medium: | Painting installation (pigment and acrylic on canvas) |
| Measurements/Duration: | 170 x 170; 60 x 50 |
| Exhibition Catalogue Title: | Make_Shift |
| Note: | To fold, to mark, to gather, to collect, to surround, to encircle, to hang, to distribute, to systematize, to simplify, to distill, to remove, to discard, to disarrange, to modulate, to mix, to bond, to stretch, to join, to repair, to expand. to continue… Fifty years ago, artist Richard Serra created the artwork Verb List that became a road map for his own process of making and an influence on the work of many others since. The abridged verb list above emphasizes a compelling attitude towards creativity (or even curating) epitomized by actions, processes and the ideas underpinning Make_Shift. The artists in Make_Shift, manipulate and modify different mediums and processes; assembling, layering and collaging both literally and conceptually to disrupt our expectations of objects and images. Curated by Rosalind Davis. Artists: Jake Clark, Fiona Curran, Gemma Cossey, Rosalind Davis, Otto Ford, Neill Fuller, Fran Gordon, Asger Harbou Gjerdvik, Gunther Herbst, Helen Johannessen, Alan Magee, Richard McVeitis, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Peter Jones, Milena Michalski, Michaela Nettell, Laurence Noga, Michael Samuels, Silvina Soria, Charles Stiven, Rachel Wilberforce and Andrea V Wright. |
| Keywords: | Pink Painting Machine, Project of Abstraction, Paintings as Tools |
| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > ND Painting |
| Divisions: | Bath School of Art, Film and Media |
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| Date Deposited: | 22 May 2018 11:52 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Nov 2023 09:07 |
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