Naked Body, Throwing

Aim

○To explore the new relationship between human bodies and clay.

○Using naked bodies make my works that focus on human bodies and clay clear.

Problem and Task

○I am mainly focus on the relationship between artist's bodies and material. but it is not.

○Colour of clay. I used gold and silver clay, but it does not look clay.

Kate Gilmore

Kate Gilmore (born 1975) is an artist who work with clay.   She explore the relationship between human bodies and material. I thought this area has been  explored by many artists  1960's and 1970's. However, her work looks innovative and novel expression. The point of her work is all performer in her video work is female and they wear  feminine dresses.   She add new element "feminine" to old theme that is the relationship  between human bodies and material. 

Repetition Throwing Tomato

I thought a lot of artist have explored the relationship between human bodies and materials. I thought have to add new element to my project. Sigmar Polke used potatoes as material to make sculpture. 

                            Sigmar Polke

Sigmar Polke

Oscar said he felt a kind of irony from my works and it looks like attacking traditional ceramics. I  tried to made works that looked like attacking ceramics.  I chose tomato, because sometimes tomato looks violence and throwing tomato has a lot of cultural meaning. 

However, this work is very complicated. Adding another element to my project might make my works unclear. I have to think about main point of my works.

La Tomatina

Breaking pots Mouth

I started to make new series, I forms big bowls by tearing it by my mouth.  

○To explore the novel relationship between human bodies and clay in the making process.

○To explore new method of forming clay by human bodies.

Visiting Artist Studio -Barnaby Barford Studio-

I visited the Barnaby Barford Studio. He works primarily with ceramics to create unique narrative pieces drawing an ironic portrait of our contemporary lives. 

Aim

○To investigate how an artist operate the studio.

○To interview his context and the relationship between his practice and the context.

○To interview his career as an artist and how he get chance to exhibit his work at Dvid Gill gallery.

○To think about my future and strategy through the studio visit.

He worked hardly  with his assistant in his studio. He is making a lot of works for museums and his new exhibition. Visiting his studio was very good experience for me, because he is working with ceramics.  I made a list that I have to do in the future through the studio visit.

○To visit famous gallery's to get community of artists or gallerists.

○To make outstanding works. then send portfolio to galleries to have a exhibition. Making is fast!!

Yves Klein Naked body, Art

Yves Klein(1928-1962) was a French artist. He was a pioneer of performance art by using human body.  He painted by using naked woman body and show it as performance art. In this series, scale and shape of painting were influenced by human body. It relate to my project significantly.  The important point of his concept is that he explored beautiful trace of human body and using naked body  realised us it. He showed us the relationship between human body and making process of art.

This is my sketch for my next works.  I am going to try performance art and photograph work by using clay and naked model. Now the concept is not clear, but it is clear that it relate to my project strongly.  

I need to look for a studio and models for this work.

Size Change

    I made bigger sculpture by the same concept and method. Because I thought my sculptures were too small for the exhibition space in the last interim show.  Making big ceramics is difficult technically and it tend to be too small for gallery spaces. Making bigger one makes my concept of repetition clear.

Interim Show 2014

I showed some ceramic pieces and a movie of making process in the interim show. I got a lot of opinion from viewers. 

○ Three sculptures are too small for the exhibition space. I am going to make bigger one, it would get stronger attention.

○Video work -  video work is very good way to show my making process, however viewer forces on only it and ceramics looks like support objects.  It is the one of the good presentation, but  I am going to consider the balance of ceramic and video works. I would like to try show photos of making process and ceramic work in the next show. 

Glaze test

     I made over 300 pieces of glaze tests for my projects.  Glaze changes atmosphere of ceramic works hugely. If I make innovative shape, old fashion glazes change it old style. I have not decided the  direction of glaze of my works and I need to continue  glaze experiment. 

I tried using resin instead of glaze. Resin is glossy and it could be vivid colour.
however, using resin for ceramic is eccentric idea and it might influence main theme negatively. I need to consider it carefully.

Exhibition review Paul McCarthy

           Video  ‘Painter’ 1995

 　　　　　　　　　　　　

Complex Piles, 2007   

exhibition view,2014

exhibition view,2014

performance view,2014

Exhibition title  ’Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model’

Paul McCarthy (1945-) is an American artist who treats taboo themes such as sex, violence and excretion, and makes sensational video and sculpture. He and his collaborator Mike Bouchet’s new exhibition was held at the portikus exhibition hall in Frankfurt. It had both Paul McCarthy’s familiar concept and a new challenge.

Paul McCarthy was inspired by Vienna actionism and made performance art that has serious moods in the early phase of his career, for example, he played house、covered in tomato ketchup that reminds of blood in his video work. Afterwards, he broke away concept of Vienna actionism clearly and started to make work that kept sensation and added pop mood, for example, huge balloon sculpture that was shaped dungs and performance in which cartoon-character costumes was worn. In the first room of this exhibition, his work still had violence and sexual moods such as video work Naked McCarthy and some volunteers playing with foods on a table. However, his new performance did not have former energetic attraction and when I watched it, I thought it was an inferior copy of his early work.

However, after looking around all exhibition spaces, I found he intend it and challenge new concept in compensation for his work loss sensation. Content of His previous work was quite sensational, although recently he outputted it as standard art forms such as simple video and sculpture. However, he mainly showed traces of his performance that looked mere dirty rooms in this show. When I entered those rooms, I felt I enter the world of his video and actually it seemed close to our daily life that difference from my impression from his video. He made this show as the place that visitors and volunteers can touch his world deeply. His former work was far from our daily life for spectator, but this exhibition remind us that he do not make fictional world in his video work but focus on our life that has violence and sexual aspects. They also hold an opening event that they supplied BBQ ram to visitors and a lot of people ate it. The scene a lot of people crowd it looked strange situation that we can see human violence instinct. And visitors who ate BBQ ram became one of his artwork that changing familiar scene to violence one.   

Early McCarthy’s works were really sensational and visitors cannot realise his work and our world are same world, but this exhibition was interactive and we can feel his work refer to our daily life. This is a quite important development to present his concept and challenge to new art context by utilising gallery space, but it seems like his most important attraction that is challenge to taboos of our society became weak.

Bibliography

Lles, C. (2008) central symmetrical rotation movement: three installations, two films New York: Whitney Museum of American Art

McCarthy,C. (2004) Paul McCarthy. Piccadilly Circus. Zurich: Scalo

Petersens,M. (2006) Paul McCarthy Head Shop/Shop Head Germany: Moderna Museet

Rosenthal,S. (2005) Paul McCarthy : lala land, parody paradise Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz