Painting for the show

This is the painting i did specially for the winter first year show. It is about connections. Like connections in the human body between cells, connections with other people, about all sorts of connection we have in life. First, i wanted to make this painting in lots of different colours, but then re- considered after i worked out it would probably look more effective in monochrome. I like how it came out and am happy to present it at the show, hope all goes well!

Gimpel Fils gallery

Recently i have been to Gimpel Fils gallery to see an exhibition by Niki de Saint Phalle, which i have enjoyed a lot since i love a lot of colour. Her paintings and sculptures are all eye- catching and sexual. She uses a lot of colour everywhere, mostly very bright colours and fluorescent as well. Her work is impossible not to notice!

There, at the gallery, there was as well a show by Lucy Stein and Andrew Gilbert. I did like some paintings in the show, they were quite political and almost comical. But generally, i did not enjoy the show as the sculptures there, to me, looked a bit freaky.

My new painting this term.

This is the first painting i did just before we started this year in order to get me going. This one does not really have an idea - i just wanted to try and show how would doing something magical with your hands look. So, i called her a witch.

The second one i did is about my experience with people, especially in London, where people are very restricted with their emotins. Especially this happens in social situations, somewhere outside their home. So, you can say that every person has a sort of a mask that they wear in front of other people - the side of their personality that everyone sees. But, everybody does have another side of them too which is a self that we rarely or don't at all show to others, sometimes we even do not see it ourselves. This is like the two sides of the moon, with the mysterious dark or back side.

Then, i did the paintings below, one of which is an abstracted portrait of my cat, and the other one using peels of the palette i have used when making the painting with two people on it earlier on. I am planning to put the painting of my cat, and another one i am still working on in the winter show which will be happening in the next 2 weeks at Chelsea for my year.

Self - made by Gillian Wearing.

After i had a presentation of my work to my tutor group in class, i was advised to go and see a feature film by Gillian Wearing, called self- made.Although it is a very strange film, i liked it a lot.

In the film she uses normal people as actors, teaching them an acting method that makes you engage with your inner self, and then, with everyone who did the acting training she did a short film. Where the people who acted could themselves choose who they wanted to play and in what kind of a scenario will be in the short film unless the person did not know.

I thought that this was a deeply psychological film. And slightly voyeuristic as we were watching very intimate moments of the training that were documented and on the other hand, we would also see a slightly more glamorous version of usually same emotion when we saw the short film.

Although i liked it, this film left some strange feeling in me and i still cannot completely get what it is.

Gerard Richter at TATE Modern and The Whitechapel Gallery

I went to see some shows recently - Gerard Richter at TATE Modern and Wilhelm Sasnal at The Whitechapel Galley. I thought that they were both really good, but i prefer Gerard Richter.


This is mainly because of his photorealist paintings. I thought that they were amazing as they didi not seem to be paintings at all. I also thought that the layout that the exhibition had was good, as in the same room there were different styles of works by him, so it was easier to intake the show.


But the wilhelm Sasnal show was good as well, i really liked the colours that he used in his works - they are mostly pastel and quite subtle.


At the Whitechapel gallery there also was a work by Rothko that i really liked as well. The colours of his works are amazing, but the feeling that you get when you look at the painting is something different. I think that Rothko's paintings are quite agressive in a way that you really feel diminished looking at them or, at least, that is my feeling.


Another work that i really liked in the gallery was an installation using lights and mirrors by Josiah McElheny. It was really beautiful and soothing, as you walked past the mirrors that would show you some shapes that would come alive as the coloured projectors hit them. Also i thought that this work goes really well alongside the lecture that we had the other week - "Conceptualism and Context". I thought that in a sense, The work was conceptualist as it was made so, the experience would be different for every person and it depended on the way you look at the work as well.