Wednesday
Imaginary Menagerie
This exhibition took place at the text/gallery, a very small space but I feel like it was perfect for this typographic exhibition as all the works were very subtle. I guess that's the beauty of typography, it has a big impact in every day life but no one truly notices the small details in typefaces.
As a viewer I was able to wonder around the exhibition in any direction, there was no particular way of viewing works or maybe there was an intention of leading viewers in a certain way but in a non obvious way. There wasn't very much information provided about the pieces, so I had to research the ones I liked most online after the visit, despite that it was still a brilliant exhibition.
I really liked all the works on display, the two that stood out most were pieces by Graham Bignell and Beatrice Bless called Mikado, this piece was screen printed the same typefaces in three different colours on top of each other and off set on purpose. I feel like it kind of relates to my own work, printing in four colour separation. Another piece was by Polina Pakhomova called promises, I thought the hand written type made this work much more personal and very strong as she layered sheets of paper on top of each other to create a three dimensional effect.
After viewing this exhibition I was inspired to produce similar pieces to Pakhomova's work, that's where the text layering experimental piece came from in my sketchbook. |
| "Mikado" Graham Bignell & Beatrice Bless |
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| "Promises" Polina Pakhomova |
RA X: 10 years of Resident Advisor
This exhibition took place at the Kemistry Gallery, which showcased screen printed posters produced for an electronic music event in London by ten different artists. The space for this even was reasonably small, but there was no need for anything bigger as it created an intimate atmosphere between the viewer and these design pieces. I thought that all posters had an element of abstraction to them, there to represent the music and lure you in to attend the event. What was great about them is that they were all the same format, with exact same minimal layout the only parts that changed were rectangles in the middle. I think that small detail like the layout is a great way to tie a series of works together. All artists used screen printing as a way to produce these posters, which gave them this great feel of being one off and precious a limited edition of a kind.
One of my favourite pieces from this show was ‘RA X’ by Simon Cook , the use of layering left me examining the poster for a while and vibrant colour caught my eye straight away. As an event poster it definitely does the job of catching public eye. Another piece was ‘RA X’ by Michael Cina, also some very great detail and layers of bold black and perfect thin lines of colour; I still don’t know how he achieved such perfection. However I thought this poster might not of been as eye catching as the other one, but the craftsman ship was brilliant.
I have been inspired by some of these works to incorporate layering in my screen printing project, because it makes a piece of work look so much richer in tone and colour.
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| "RA X" Simon Cook 2011 |
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| "RA X" Michael Cina 2011 |
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