Undy, Claire (2014) Taint. [Show/Exhibition]
Type of Research: | Show/Exhibition | ||||||
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Creators: | Undy, Claire | ||||||
Description: | 'Six plasticine balls, three of which are sculptures' - exhibited as part of 'Taint' at GRAD Gallery. The ten artists presented in Taint collectively provide a snapshot of several recent developments in contemporary painting and photography-related work in Britain and Russia. A number of the show’s contributors are fairly recent graduates from art schools in either the UK or Russia, whilst others have already been exhibiting for a number of years. Whatever their specific background or degree of experience, these artists work to a common condition, that of being strongly influenced – even if implicitly or inadvertently – by the legacy and penetrating power of Conceptual art, whilst nonetheless sharing a desire to continue to produce paintings or painting-related work. The traditional medium of painting, being thus filtered, modified, or, perhaps tainted by Conceptualism, has not, as various commentators wrongly predicted, disappeared or become redundant. Rather, painting was arguably given a new lease of life as a result of the widespread dissemination of the strategies of self-investigation that so typically characterise Conceptual art. In the most interesting and revealing instances of post-conceptual painting - the work of Gerhard Richter would be a case in point – the physical and critical result or implications is clearly an expansion of the possibilities of painting, a transformation affecting both the medium of paint itself and also where the frame or boundary of the ‘painting’ begin and end. What exactly ‘painting’ is in relation to other resources of expression, including those of the relatively new mediums of image-making such as video and computer-generated art, is hard to define, but all of the artists in Taint maintain a prominent connection with this perhaps oldest of all artistic forms. |
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Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Camberwell College of Arts | ||||||
Date: | 8 April 2014 | ||||||
Related Websites: | https://www.grad-london.com/whatson/taint/ | ||||||
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Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date GRAD Gallery, London 8 April 2015 3 May 2014 |
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Date Deposited: | 31 Jan 2025 13:47 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 31 Jan 2025 13:47 | ||||||
Item ID: | 23135 | ||||||
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/23135 |
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