Digwyddiadau
Painting Seminar 2pm Saturday 4th August
04 Awst - 04 Awst 2012
Free Admission | All Welcome
You are invited to the painting seminar at Mission Gallery on the position of painting in contemporary arts practice through an open discussion between an audience of practitioners and the public.
Participation in discussion is optional.
If you type in ‘Painting is dead’ on Google search it returns 64,400,000 results.
The fortunes of painting wax and wane, at times carry the stigma of it being perceived as a traditional art-form and “of the past”. It has suffered the effect of sidelining by more currently “fashionable” art-forms of film, video and performance. Katie Allen's 'Nature Illuminated' at Mission Gallery and the Beep Wales international painting prize organised by Elysium Gallery at Volcano, demonstrate that painting is well and truly alive.
'The outmoded notion that painting is dead has been proclaimed regularly since the early 20th century with the birth of many new mediums and practices in art. Not a year goes by without an announcement of the return of painting when in fact it has never gone away. So why does this question keep resurfacing?
It does though feel that painting does have to keep defending itself, it can be seen as the embarrassing elder statesman of art, the senile old uncle in a rocking chair, mumbling and reminiscing about past glories. Its greatest threat could be its current status in arts schools where a sneering towards well crafted work and gradual development is shunned in favour of a ‘quick fix’ approach.
Painting no longer experiences sudden movements or shifts in styles, instead relying on single artists to keep the medium alive. More recently painting has experienced the effect where it has been flooded with copy cat painters; 10 years ago it was Luc Tuymans, 5 years ago it was Marlene Dumas, now it is Peter Doig. A new approach is needed and attitudes need to change.'
Jonathan Powell, Director - Elysium Gallery
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