User:Nicole Hametner/Graduate Research Seminar 2013-TM4.04

Relation to larger context

Pieter Geenen/ Raphael Hefti/ Chris Cornish/ Valerie Mréjen/ Roni Horn/ James Turell/ Olafur Eliasson/ Bill Viola/ Gary Hill/ Harun Farocki/ Michael Snow/ Marie Jo Lafontaine/ Jan Fabre/ Mark Lewis/ Fiona Tan/ David Claerbout/ Douglas Gordon/ Bruce Naumann/ Tacita Dean/ Runa Islam/ video art/ structural film/

Steve McQueen, Running Thunder, 2007

• installation with hanged screen in space
• reflections of the presentational mode
• photograph of a dead tree enclosing a stone
  

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
• black painting of trunks with textured paint
• about the viewers position, his movement to reveal the image
• challenge of depicting a night scene
• do I have to simulate my vision at night?
• made me think of my previous work in the forest
• Carnegie also mixes genres, still life, landscapes, portrait > portraits next to landscapes
  

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