Gallery Visit

On Friday I visited the Bridgette Mayer Gallery and the exhibition of Federico Herrero blew me away!!! His sense for color is amazing! In 2001 he won the award for best young artist at the Venice Biennale and he was 23 at that time. I'm so glad that I saw this exhibition!!!!

http://www.bridgettemayergallery.com/exhibitions/federico-herrero/

Akira Kurosawa "Dreams"

Two days ago I was watching some of the inserts from Kurosawa's movie "Dreams", because I wanted to remind myself of the particular scenes that have been stuck in my head since first time I watched this movie. These days I have been thinking a lot of the part when the man gets into Van Gogh's painting....because that is exactly what I want to do to the viewer. I want to invite him/her into the space of my drawings/paintings and to allow him/her to walk into the macrocosmic space of my visual moments. I want to create that space by using technology. I see technology as a manipulative tool that shifts human's  perception and provides an illusion of color and space. I want to confront pictorial space to three-dimensional space. I want to call into play the color light-the physical color.

This is a link for the movie, so you all know what I am talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We8NpHPXzwI

Weaving with Fiber-optic thread

http://www.fiberarts.com/artist-highlight/april-may-2011/Weaving-Fiber-optic-Thread.asp

New thoughts

I have been thinking of what is missing in my work....? I think TECHNOLOGY is the answer. In my personal opinion art + technology is the future. I want to use technology as a tool for my drawings, in the same way as I use oil pastels...to use it to create a sense of my drawings.
Why not integrate, LED lights, Fiber optics and LCD projections from computer technology?
It could be a way cheaper than buying oil pastels every second week and would give me a chance to do more experiments at little cost.
I also have been thinking of doing installations, using wire, thread, marbles ( some of them come in great colors)....collecting different materials that I can use in order to gain the visual effects of my drawings.

I found a few artist that I have been inspired by in terms of the materials that they use.
1. Yayoi Kusama

2. Carnovsky design studio: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/november/carnovsky-rgb-wallpaper-new-show
I am attracted to technology, not by subject matter/

3. 4.5 million light-emiting diodes offer an amazing spectacle at Nabana no Soto park in Japan

4. Astrid Krogh
   Optical fibres: 
   http://www.astridkrogh.com/html/exh-10.html

Paintings in progress

Painting 1 (step I)

Painting 1 (step II)

Painting 2 (step I)

Painting 2 (step II)

Painting 2 (step III)

Painting 3 (step I)

Painting 3 (step II)