An email last Thursday. A suggestion (from Leonie): is everybody up for making a brochure for the final show? A flurry of responses throughout the day. After discussion, the plan, to put together a working draft for next week, and if things work well, the real thing goes to bed in June.
For Friday May 5, here’s the spec of what’s needed:
- Short Artist Bio — this could be just your name and where you’re from, or you could write a couple of sentences for a little more insight — it’s up to you
- Abstract of your practice — relevant to the work you have been doing for ma — limited to a couple of paragraphs — around 100 to 200 words?
- 1 primary image — this will be the image that will definitely be featured
- up to 3 other secondary images — numbered in order of preference for inclusion — depending on space it may be the case that not all the images you send will be shown
And so, here’s an initial stab at the copy. After about eight re-writes its getting there. And then some head scratching to select some images… taking d5 as a starting point, I create a subset of four from it to be d6. At this stage I am fairly sure that these are very much an interim selection… once I have put more thought into what exactly I will be showing at the final show I will need to revise what to put into this group brochure… but for now they are more than fine as comps.
Short Artist Bio
David Somers creates abstract artworks that explore the concepts of hybridity and third space. He is an Anglo-Irish visual artist living in Luxembourg.
Abstract of Practice
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Visual artist David Somers is interested in what happens when cultures meet — the concept of hybridity and the third space — and expresses this through the creation of expressive and minimalist abstract works. His unique approach takes contemporary post-colonial theory and instead of applying its concepts to community structures and dynamics (cultural interactions in a society) he applies them to a visual world (figure/figure interactions in a visual space). His artworks are simultaneously simple but complex: the presentation of profound situation with a request for thought and consideration. His artworks are a bisection of space into chromatic planes that manifest hybridity and the resulting third space that either alludes to greatness — the application of systems theory that the sum can be greater than the parts — or separation and loss — the application of a zero-sum game where one person’s gain is equivalent to another’s loss. It has been said that his art “provides a fascinating instrument for reflection” and given contemporary political and social events they offer a critical observation.
draft 2
Visual artist David Somers is interested in what happens when cultures meet — the concept of hybridity and the third space — and expresses this through the creation of expressive and minimalist abstract works. His unique approach takes contemporary post-colonial theory and instead of applying its concepts to community structures and dynamics (cultural interactions in a society) he applies them to a visual world (figure/figure interactions in a visual space). His artworks are simultaneously simple but complex: the presentation of profound situation with a request for thought and consideration. His artworks are a bisection of space into chromatic planes that manifest hybridity and the resulting third space that either alludes to greatness — the application of systems theory that the sum can be greater than the parts — or separation and loss — the application of a zero-sum game where one person’s gain is equivalent to another’s loss. It has been said that his art “provides a fascinating instrument for reflection” and given contemporary political and social events they offer a critical observation.
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Visual artist David Somers creates expressive and minimalist abstract works that manifest his interest in cultural meeting zones, hybridity and the third space. In his unique approach, Somers takes contemporary post-colonial theory, and instead of applying its concepts to community structures, he applies them to a visual world. His artworks are a bisection of space into chromatic planes that demand scrutiny and consideration. These visual interactions result in a third space that may allude either to a transcending greatness, understood within systems theory as how the sum may be greater than its parts, or to a deepening separation, understood within a zero-sum game as how one person’s gain is equivalent to another person’s loss. It has been said that his art “provides a fascinating instrument for reflection,” and given contemporary political and social events, it offers an opportunity for critical observation.
Primary Image
Secondary Images
