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The mirror & imagined space 2
- 1. The mirror & the Imagined space Exploring the artworks of artists Robert Smithson and Matt Collishaw 1
- 2. "Reflecting the site in a physical way" Chalk Mirror Displacement constructed at the Oxted chalkpit quarry, Surrey, and photographed by the artist 1969 Chalk and Mirror Displacement 1969 http://www.robertsmithson.com 2
- 3. An evocative vision beauty & brutality reflected • Matt Collishaw ; Retrospectre, instalation http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoun d/exclusive/retrospectre.php 3
- 4. Physicality and Reflection • "I'm using a mirror because the mirror in a sense is both the physical mirror and the reflection: the mirror as a concept and abstraction; then the mirror as a fact within the mirror of the concept. So that's a departure from the other kind of contained, scattering idea. But still the bi-polar unity between the two places is kept. Here the site/non-site becomes encompassed by mirror as a conceptmirroring, the mirror being a dialectic.“ • Quote excerpted from ROBERT SMITHSON: THE COLLECTED WRITINGS, 2nd Edition, edited by Jack Flam, http://www.robertsmithson.com 4
- 5. Topics to explore The illusion of space and depth The mirror, reflection & projection creating a dialogue with the past and present Exploring the concept of site/non site 5
- 6. Recourses Berger. J (1972) Ways of Seeing. Penguin Books Harrison,C Wood,P Art In Theory 1900-2000 Blackwell publishing D'ALLEVA, A. (2006). How to write art history. London, Laurence King Pub. http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/nancy-holt-and-robert-smithson -england-1969 Review by Donald Goddard (accessed)Monday, April 2013,09:41 AM http://www.newyorkartworld.com/reviews/smithson.html http://openfileblog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/michel-foucault-on-heterotopias.html http://www.blainsouthern.com/artists/mat-collishaw http://www.freud.org.uk 6
Editor's Notes
- I shall be exploring works of the artists above examining the different ways in which both artists use the mirror as medium and concept. The site/non site in Smithson’s work and the two-way mirror/ projections in Collishaw’s and how they both create an imagined space.
- Robert Smithson was commissioned by Institute of Contemporary Art, London 1969 for an exhibition titled ( When Attitudes Become Form). by The work on the left has been created outside where the artist had journeyed to a quarry in Sussex England to find a site. The work is created and photographed. The materials are dismantled and painstakingly removed and carried from the site. In this case the artist not only used the materials he also recreated design in the gallery space. This is an example of what Smithson calls a site and non –site. http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/nancy-holt-and-robert-smithson-england-1969
- Matt Collishaw’sretrospectre is an installation created using a selection of wooden window/ door frames and alter pieces assembled together creating a huge wooden collage of fames holding within them two-way mirrors and glass. A collection of film pieces have been cut and pasted together then projected onto the mirrors. http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/exclusive/retrospectre.php