Ikon Gallery

Exhibitions: Tadasu Takamine: Too far to see, John Salt & Kristoffer Myskja.

I vistited the Ikon Gallery for the second time on Tuesday the 31st on May, which i can admit that i felt slightly more inspired this time round compared to the first time of visiting the gallery. 

The three artists above offered such different work that was in there own way excellent. Tadasu Takamine's work was almost "awkward". But I think that feeling really helped to convey what was going through his mind when he made each film. "God Bless America" was most interesting to me, this film consisted of the artist and his partner living in a red room for 18 days without leaving it. Its about America post 9/11 and how culture has been affected by the historic day. 

 John Salts work was truly inspiring and gave me great inspiration for my work and how to exhibit it, the technique he used also caught my eye as he airbrushed paint onto his work using stencils instead of using the ordinary brush. The size of the paintings really conveyed tons of emotion as you were almost lost in them.

Kristoffer Myskja had the Tower room devoted to his work. It's called the "Machine that uses 1000 years to shut itself down" the work represents uselessness. But not it the harsh way it may seem, the machine was so elegant, even fragile persuing that maybe something just exist to exist, why should they need a reason or objective? 

 Taking into account that the Art Foundation Group are currently working towards putting there own exhibition together we took this chance to also look at how the Gallery was set out.As we want our exhibition to look as professional as possible we took notes and ideas that we can reach the highest standards possible. We decided that we would each have our own information boxes next to our work to display our name, specialism/future commitments such as uni and course, a paragraph about our work and that it was the work of Art Foundation 2010-2011.