Paul Graham

from the american night series.
Image taken from his website.

Yes, I think that massive frame and opaque plexiglass sitting at the back of my sofa is wanting to come out and play.... we'll bring some paint too... 

Yoko Kanayama

What you are looking at are photographs viewed through silk screened Plexiglas. I take the photos with a 4 x 5 color negative and make a traditional c-print. Then I use Rapidograph ink to trace trees from the image on a sheet of Frosted Mylar. From this Rapidograph drawing, I expose the silkscreen and use translucent white ink to make silkscreen prints of trees on the Plexiglas. This process gives the work a little bit of a 3D effect.




Featured at We can Shoot Too blog, from where I got this image and text.


May be I can use a similar process to solve the nightmares I've been having with my painting. I'm thinking of the transparency I got on the Draft paper on the areas where I applied varnish... play with ths 3d mentionality and glass? ... although my glass box is still not looking any good..hmmm

maslen & mehra . mirrored

image from their website... click here for a review.

Alex Kanevsky

all images taken from his website

that kind of love... ('Thirst' Park Chan-Wook,2009)

Like a leper rotting in flesh, 

let all avoid me.
Like a cripple without limbs,
let me move not freely.
Remove my cheeks,
that tears may not roll down them.
Crush my lips and tongue,
that I may may not sin with them.
Pull out my nails,
That I may grasp nothing.
Let my shoulders and back be bent,
that I may carry nothing.
Like a man with a tumour in the head,
let me lack judgement.
Ravage my body sworn to chastity,
and have me live
in shame.
Let no one pray for me.
But only the grace of the lord
Jesus Christ have mercy of me.

.. the one where vampires have reflections, and victims are invisible

.. the one that illuminates the night with artificial light.

'Coagulate' by Mihai Grecu

france, 2008

leandro erlich

from here

Renie Spoelstra

Recreatiegebied 29, 2005, 240x320cm

Recreatiegebied 28, 2005, 240x310cm

Recreatiegebied 35, 2005, 240x350cm

The intention of the huge charcoal drawings of Renie Spoelstra is to let the viewer experience an atmosphere of deliberate apathy; hours and days go by in a split second, every moment frozen in time and every moment equal to the other.

Wim Bosch

Frame #03
2008
pigmented ink on paper, aluminium
68 x 91 cm


Sink
2008
pigmented ink on paper, aluminium
99 x 131cm


images from her website

PATRIC HUGHES

".....in axonometric projection.... not made in perspective, because it does not diminsh towards a vanishing point, but it looks like perspective ... his works are usually made in forced perspective, and in reverse, he is interested to see what spectators make of this object: which when you look at it, looks as if it has already been looked at...."

when rOman first told me about this guy exhibition at the flowers gallery I checked their website and I went like meeehh, kinda thing you know.. today I was there with leonardo and this guy fucking rocks man, moon, if you are one of those weirdoes who gets high at space investigations... you gotta look at this guy.. forget about the website .. it looks boring.. in flesh though, I loved it... well... lately I love everything hehe... like that concert of Michael Nyman that I found so overwhelming that I cry while moon was next to me sleeping, hehehe.... (here, to defend myself I have to admit that I found the first part of the concert rather cheesy, you know he even played the piano track! ... geeeeeees, it was the second part that was fantastic) ... anyway, if you do go to the gallery, forget about downstairs... go straight up...

Later on I came back to this guys work, when I started in looking for ways to make you feel invisible. I was looking into making a mirror full body size ( a whole wall, in my wildest dreams) where you could see the reflection of everyone and everything in the room.. except for yourself. Kind of like a vampire. How does it feel to not be able to find your reflection? This idea came  from my visual research on victims and tyrants, and my reading of 'The Nausea' by Jean Paul Sartre. 


..Hell is other people'...  he writes, and it refers to the need of the other recognition in order to exist. I am only from the moment you can see me, there for we are in a never ending search for this eyes, for this response from the other to our existence, this is reflection. Where you can not reflect you don't exist, Invisibility is the end and the beginning of all cruelty.


The reason I came back to him was the use he gives to different planes in his 3 dimensional painting, giving an amazing illusion of movement and space. I wondered if I could use his tricks for making the mirror, perhaps using some weird angles I can find the way to make the person standing right in front of it disappear, not find his reflection, become invisible.  

GERHARD RICHTER

this are over-painted photographs, I cant wait for the exhibition at the national portrait gallery... mmmmm..... look look, he is a amazing.. i think he does not sleep ever.. and he must have started painting at the age of 2 ... so much work....

The paint over the photographs does not let you see properly what is behind. A physical barrier can be a very simple mechanism to immediate suggested invisibility. The softness of this "suggestion" can perhaps be a little too delicate?   He uses other mechanisms in his paintings, like blurriness but the one I found very strong was painting the subject giving the back to the viewer, making it impossible to make any sort of contact, you are unable to identify with one another.