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 |