LECTURE 05/04/2013

LECTURE NOTES 5/4/2013

Samstag Museum: Phantasia
Phantasia – Part I

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id25-BCV-6U&feature=player_embedded

Alexia Sinclair:

• Regel 12: 3 years worth
• 1 woman show
• hundreds of layers
• push and polish

Simon Strong:

• dreams
• childhood memories
• water
• urban  spaces we live in
• sinister and dark things happen on our doorstep

Mark Kimber:

• recreate a painting from his childhood
• travel and escape
• reconstruct life
• 15-20 images
• range of sketches, images and photos arranged together in photoshop

CJ's Thoughts:

• taking hours, days, months, etc. in production
• what this means for them (the artists)
• polished imagery “photoshoped”

"Phantasia" on ABC Sunday Arts, 7 June 2009

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3V9BXdYGkk&feature=player_embedded

S Aussie Photographers

• distrort photography
• Alexia Sinclair’s quote “push pixels as far as they could go"
• Want people to think they're real
• Literal doesn’t satisfy photgraphers
• Angus McBean – surrrealists, Francis Day
• Magdelna Bores recreates Angus McBean – fairytale images in dometic setting
• They refer back to paiting, storytelling, and fiction

'Vapourtrout' by Mark Kimber:

• Panoramic
• Vary in coulour and quality
• Visual yearning for pre-history
• Combine and build fictional landscapes

Andrew:

• Idea that civilization was emerging
• 1990’s – top hats etcs

Robin McFaralan – Art Critic

• said he was "glad he made the artwork, because it was memorable"

Alexia Sinclair:

• respect of women from bygone age
• such as: Marie Antoinette

Simon Strong:

• Childhood
• Anxieties – fear of leaking water and bugs inside
• Conscious and inconsciousmemorable

“Fine Art Photographer” – hiarachy in art

• The idea photography: documented visual art

Bill Henson – controversy

• admiration/inspiration for technical detail