User:Nicole Hametner/Graduate Research Seminar 2013-TM4.03

Nicole Hametner, Trimester 4, december 2013 

Relation to larger context

Pieter Geenen/ Raphael Hefti/ Chris Cornish/ Roni Horn/ James Turell/ Olafur Eliasson/ Bill Viola/ Harun Farocki/ Michael Snow/ Jan Fabre/ Fiona Tan/ David Claerbout/ Tacita Dean/ Runa Islam/ structural film/

Steve McQueen, Running Thunder, 2007

• installation with hung screen in space
• reflections of the presentational mode
• photograph of a stone enclosed by a dead tree
  

Steve McQueen, Running Thunder, 2007 Steve McQueen, Running Thunder, 2007	Nicole Hametner, There, 2012

Gillian Carnegie, Black Square, 2008

• the contradiction between matter and image
• the viewer's position, needs her movement to reveal the image
• challenge of depicting a night scene
• made me think of my previous work in the forest
  

Gillian Carnegie, Black Square, 2008	Nicole Hametner, Wald, 2006

Mark Rothko/ Hiroshi Sugimoto

• precise idea of the work's installation
• necessity of a sensitive observer
• sense of the unknown
• transcendence of the individual
• towards spiritual experience
  

Mark Rothko, Rothko Chapel, 1971	Hiroshi Sugimoto, Pine Trees/ Coffin of Light, 2001

Black paintings

• abstract expressionism
• the sublime
• representation of abscence
  

Pointillism of Georges Seurat

• grid of dots
• structure of the paper

Georges Seurat, The Artist's Mother, 1882