Glass Art Exhibition in Glass Artists' Gallery

An Event Review by: Danar Satria Kinantan Kurniawan Junaedhie (Danie)

I’ve visit Glass Artists’ Gallery for a Glass Art exhibition, an Open Gallery Event on the 16 of January. Located in 68 Glebe Point Road, Glebe New South Wales, Glass Artists Gallery have a quite long history in doing exhibition for glass art in Sydney.

The Exhibition which I attend is a free of charge exhibition being organized by the owner and director of the Gallery herself, Maureen Cahill.

For the advertisement, how well it is? This event was advertised in several website, whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/, urbanwalkabout.com, and the website of the gallery itself: www.glassartistsgallery.com.au. For the printed media advertising, it was being advertised on Spectrum (December, 11-12, 2010), not to mention it was being advertised also in Sydney Morning Herald for quite a week or two, in the December Edition.

Regarding this information about the advertisement, it was quite well advertised in my deepest opinion, due to the numbers of the ads that they put in cyber and printed media.

The target market for the gallery itself, I think it is more into casual to high class art viewer, due to the range of artworks and the simplicity of beauty that those artworks provide, even I could see how beautiful, and extravagant the artworks that being displayed there in the Glass Artists’ Gallery. To be honest here I don’t know really well about the target market for the Glass Artists’ Gallery, due to the fact when I arrived there they already do some packing for the next exhibition, and I was lucky enough to take pictures and have a talk or two with the person in charge there. There was no customer or people beside me and the person in charge there.

I don’t know much about what kind of person who’s coming to that gallery, this is also due to the fact that I come on the last day of the exhibition, there’s just me and the person in charge there, chatting around and taking pictures for the exhibition itself.

I cannot give a comprehensive observation about the event, due to the fact that I come on the last day of the event and not to mention that I went there for like an hour or less. But from what I saw there I can give this observation:

For the gallery itself, it’s not a big gallery it is just a small gallery nearby Mirvac Broadway Shopping Centre, it’s more like a one level medium sized house building. And for the entrance there’s just twin door entrance in front of the building. For the artwork placement and other stuff involved, it was quite a mess due to the fact that they’re starting to replace all of the artworks to the new ones for the next exhibition, so I can’t really say about the placement of the artworks there. But for the artworks itself, it was really2 fascinating, and it is really intriguing how those pieces of glass can really touch your feeling and sense of beauty.

Nudibranch - "THE GLANCE"

My favourite pieces there is the one that’s being made by Nudibranch, entitled: “The Glance”

I didn’t take picture for this one due to the fact that I run out of batteries when I want to take a picture for this one. But then it still a great artwork for this one, I love how the glass can portrays the emotion of Orpheus and Eurydice.

Just for a quick lesson in Greek Mythology, Orpheus is the man who’s going to the underworld, or Tartarus as the Greek said, to take back his lover from the clutches of Hades (Or Pluto as the Roman said) the Ruler of the Underworld. He went down there, and find his way to bring back Eurydice to the upper world, due to the power of his music (yes, Orpheus music can melt anyone’s heart, and Hades the Emperor of Tartarus itself is no exception), but with one rule, he cannot look back at Eurydice when they walk to the upper world. In the end he did look back, and Eurydice lost forever in the depth of Tartarus.

This particular scene is portrayed very well in this artwork, the emotion between two lover, and not to mention the existance of Cerberus the three headed dog of hell that guards the entrance of Tartarus is really-really neat, and I have to say really beautiful.

I never felt this close to a piece of art before, but this is maybe due to my love of Greek Mythology, and how I spend my childhood reading a lot of stuff that involving God’s from many different countries.

As for the colours involved in this artworks, I really loved it, it really pops in my eyes, and most people would not even know that this particular artwork is being made by glass, due to the complexity of the colours and the contrast between each colours that highlighting the main character in this artwork.

In my deepest opinion, I really like my visit to this kind of event, and I really do have interest in this kind of art, more so than the so called “pop art”. I can see the beautiful side and the complexity side of the arts that being displayed here, and you don’t have to be an avid art lover to be able to enjoy this kind of art, just look and feel the feeling that each arts represents. I know that even some arts in here needs some basic knowledge of certain stuff (like Greek mythologies for example) to get the point here, but then that’s art for you. In each of every art you need to know a piece or two about the background in order for you to enjoy the art at it’s fullest, although as I mention before not all art like that, because there’s this kind of general sense called “beauty” that being perceived by general people in common, like how rose is beautiful, or how thrash is ugly, art in this case also can be interpreted like that.

The things that I dislike about my visit to this gallery are: the time, I know this one is my fault at the most, but still it’s not really convenient or pleasant to be in a gallery in the middle of moving, or preparation stage. And the other thing is, the size of the gallery, when you enter there you already can see all of the artwork being displayed there, there’s no sense of adventure to look for the hidden artwork or something like that. I know my last point didn’t make any sense but for me I like that kind of part about gallery, going around and trying to find a hidden piece that you really like.

In conclusion I really enjoyed my time in the Glass Artists’ Gallery, there’s a lot of new things that I learned there about Glass Art, it’s like opening a door to a new world that you never been before. And do I want to go there again? Yes I do want to go there again in the future.

nail polish for men

even men want to wear nail polish, and still looks manly!!

for the remixed media assignment, I'm gonna make the ads for nail polish for men.

event review update

for one more time I'm gonna change my event review, due to the lack of time before, now I'm gonna visit the Glass Artists' Gallery, at 68 Glebe Point Road Glebe 203, for the glass artist gallery exhibition.

http://www.glassartistsgallery.com.au/

mail@glassartistsgallery.com.au

Pop Art!!

Mao in Warhol style

Pop art, the term of pop art comes during 1950s in Great Britain, and refer to the interest of a number of artists in the images of consumer products, mass media, advertising, and comics.

Pop art often takes form of an imagery that which is currently in use in advertising. Product labeling and logos figure prominently in the imagery chosen by pop artists, such as in the Campbell's Soup Cans labels, by Andy Warhol. Even the labeling on the shipping carton containing retail items has been used as subject matter in pop art, for example in Warhol's Campbell's Tomato Juice Box 1964, or his Brillo Soap Box sculptures.


 

Early pop art in Britain was a inspired by American popular culture which is viewed from afar, while the American artists were inspired by the experiences, of living within that culture. Similarly, pop art kinda similar with Dadaism.  While pop art and Dadaism explored some of the same subjects, pop art replaced the destructive, satirical, and anarchic impulses of the Dada movement with detached affirmation of the artifacts of mass culture, in which we refer to as "pop culture".

Andy Warhol Immortalizing Marilyn Monroe

Pop Art therefore coincided with the youth and pop music phenomenon of the 1950s and '60s, and became very much a part of the image of fashionable, "swingin'" London. Peter Blake, for example, designed album covers for Elvis Presley and the Beatles and placed film stars such as Brigitte Bardot in his pictures in the same way that Warhol was immortalizing Marilyn Monroe in the USA.

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 When:
  Between Friday 03 December and Saturday 18 December from 00.00AM to 00.00AM

Opening Night: 6:30pm Friday 3 December
Exhibition will run until 18 December
Monday – Friday 9:00am – 6:00pm, Saturday 11:00am – 4:00pm

Where:
Pine Street Creative Arts Centre, 64 Pine Street Chippendale 2008 Venue details
Cost: Free
Website:
http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/pinestreet/




More Info:
Pine Street Creative Arts Centre
Jane Hooper 9245 1503
jhooper@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

Dadaism, an art movement

"For us, art is not an end in itself ... but it is an opportunity for the true perception and criticism of the times we live in.", Hugo Ball (February 22, 1886 – September 14, 1927)

Hannah Höch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen
Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural
Epoch in Germany, 1919, collage of pasted papers, 90x144 cm,
Staatliche Museum, Berlin.

"Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art  cultural works. Its purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world. In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and anarchistic in nature." taken from www.wikipedia.org

so basically Dadaism, is an art movement that really into making fun of the modern world, by branding it with "meaningless" tag. Dadaism also an anti-war, anti-bourgeois (social group of people who is considered to be a high class/wealthy and act like it), and anarchistic in nature. this is art movement come during the World War 1, which given us the very basic idea why this art movement were invented back then. The movement was a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests, which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war, and against the cultural and intellectual conformity that corresponded to the war.

According to its people who's in Dadaism, Dada was not art, it was "anti-art". Everything for which art stood, Dada is the opposite. Where art was concerned with traditional aesthetics, Dada ignored aesthetics. If art was to appeal to sensibilities, Dada was intended to offend. Through their rejection of traditional culture and aesthetics, the Dadaists hoped to destroy traditional culture and aesthetics.

Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, Richard Huelsenbeck, Jean Arp, Marcel Janco, Sophie Täuber, Hans Richter, Emmy Hennings, along with others, discussed art and put on performances in the Cabaret Voltaire In 1916,  Zurich, expressing their disgust with war and the things that inspired it. Some people says that this is the beginning of Dadaism

Cubism pics

original picture

cubism version

here's my take on Cubism, well I just copy the style and implement it in my picture, nuff said.