An important part of my ideas surrounding display has come from research on the artist Daniel Warnecke. Working exclusively with 3D figurines, his exhibition at the GX Gallery in Camberwell presents an interesting example of type of display that are suitable from small sized sculptural objects.
About the Artist:
Warnecke is a young artist who employs 3D printing to create a dialog between the past and the present, reinventing and renewing historical art traditions.
He selects well known portraits (Michelangelo’s David for example) and reimagines them using the modern technological format.
Presented to the audiences as small solid figurines or large print photographs, audiences have to consider the way here iconic faces with a new modern sensibility, removed from the way they are traditionally seen,, as well as removed from the system of beliefs they emerged from.
Lifesize standee
Name of the exhibition – Here Warnecke introduces the exhibition through cleverly anagrammed boxed, much like the closed simply cases that houses his works throughout the exhibition.
Here Warnecke even play attention to the surround/complementary objects that work together with his figurines. Here the simple about extends to a machine like structure on top for the solid object, acting as a snapshot’ of the figurine being built ‘in-situ’
Alcove Installation – directional lighting and purposely posed layout
Side View
Front View
Installation View
Michelangelo’s ‘David’ (w. tattoos)
Installation View
Display:
What I enjoy about the display of this exhibition is the uniformity of the cases. Clear, minimal, making use of the light in the darkened aesthetic of the room, this directly relates to the conditions of my work int he upcoming exhibition. I have bought similar acyclic case to house my cast, but unlike this exhibition, I am definitely hoping to increase the interactivity of my works within the exhibition, making the research a kay piece of emphasis within the research aspect of the exhibition.
Magritte – replication
The ‘Many’ Van Gogh’s – compilation
replication
Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967 – Diane Arbus
rendition – modern clothing
The Girl With the Pearl Earring
Monroe – copy
Alice Wisden:
I also stumbled upon a new artists whose work I find both comical and saddening. Alice Wisden work is formed around a collections of frustrations and anxieties, that mae use of her moments from childhood, pulling out of them characteristics she feels an affinity with which form the basis of her paintings.
Issues of identity and alienation drive Wisden’s work as she creates characters in her work, her graffiti style ta remains unabashedly clumsy within her work. She creates an interesting interplay between the real and imaginary as she expertly distorts familiar primary theme, pictorial ties and focal characters. Undoubtably, the uncanny emerges inner work
Gallery Works:
Charles Fazzino
(below – Cedric Christie)
Carlos Cortez
