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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Arts University Bournemouth
In No Particular Order: Painting as Metaphor for Presentness. Solo Exhibition held 8 December 2008 to 23 January 2009.
This was a solo exhibition selected for the text+work programme delivered by the Gallery at Arts University Bournemouth (formerly the Arts Institute at Bournemouth) a leading Gallery in the South West showcasing work by contemporary artists. Granell exhibited 10 pieces of work in total. An accompanying text was written by Kathleen Abiker, Course Leader for Art History, at the Ashford School of Art and Design.
Research Imperatives
The research investigated whether the process of painting could be used as a metaphor for presentness and what it means to be stuck, unable to act?
Through a series of paintings, Granell explored how in their ‘daily recording’, painting might chronicle existence and evoke the passage of time. Drawing on the writings of Francois Jullien the paintings mirror the scattering that occurs in thought when confronting art which refuses to answer questions about meaning. The text explores through a series of incidental speculations (related to non-western forms of writing) the almost impossible notion of presentness with respect to the meaning and the reception of the work, its formal properties and the process of making. The idea of presentness is therefore problematic in relation to the creation of discourse in painting as to be truly present when reading the work requires an awareness of what it seen at the moment it is seen. The response to the work exists in the same way that the work exists at that moment and then it is gone.
The paintings use layers reminiscent of macro or micro-landscapes seen from a great height or seen from close up to explore the notion of Stuck: a good or a bad thing; a reason to create or to stop.
Portfolio
CD:
(i) Images of the work and the exhibition
(iii) Transcript of event held 11 December 2008 to accompany the exhibition
Paper:
(i) Date of dissemination: text+work leaflet
