Sunday, 14 October 2007

Black Swan - Frome

I went to see the exhibition New Generation Graphic Design put on by the 3rd year graphics at The Black Swan. Julia Moszkowicz gave a lecture on 'From Ethics to Asthetics'

She talked about making a bridge between technology and art and the crossover between fine art and graphics, and how the gap between the two are blurred - and she was asking the question of how graphics and fine art is valued. Are they judged as equal?

Artificiality - making graphic more human and seen as natural, making design worthy of attention.

Examples of work



Ben David Zadok - Black Field 2007
This new work Black Field continues to investigate Ben David’s interest in visual trickery and illusion in relation to a fascination with science as a vehicle for progress. A major installation, it completely permeates the left hand side of the gallery allowing the spectator only one vantage point from which to view this spectacular work. Both witty and playful, the piece seduces its audience by creating a deception, easy to unravel but magnificent in its simplicity.


Ian Stevenson - Lost Heros
Gary Hume - American Tan at the White Cube
Lucy McKensie 2000
Luke Best

She was also discussing the idea of 'free will', Representation of self and others, freedom of experience.

She also talked about some ideas of Jacque Ranciere and his ideas on Politics of Aesthetics.

Rhythm of design

The major Regimes of art

Ethical regime
Art is not identified as such but is subsumed under the question 'to ban or not to ban'

Poetic regime
Justification of value, imitation verses truth. Abstract more poetic.

Asethetic regime
Seen as 'art' IT IS ART. Pure instance.

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