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Artist Exhibitions:
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See a special collection of
still life interiors at Artrom
Gallery.
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highlights of online and
physical events -
AWAITING RESULTS - entries
into:
Photographer's Forum Magazine
Annual
Photomedia Center Open 08
IPA (International Photography
Awards)
New York Photo Awards
Art Kudos Art International
UPCOMING - exhibtions:
AGS (Auckland Grammar School)
Exhibition 08...
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Artist Galleries:
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GALLERY REPRESENTATION
CONSIDERED -an exhibition
proposal is available.
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Currently represented by:
- Artrom Gallery
Rome, IT
- Lopdell House Gallery
Titirangi
Waitakere City, NZ
- Compose Art
Auckland, NZ
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Previous associations:
- Ferner Galleries City
Auckland, NZ
- Portfolio Gallery
Auckland, NZ
- Martin Zambito Fine Art
Seattle, WA - US
- Woodards Gallery
Waitakere City, NZ
- RKS...
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Artist Reviews:
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MORE COMING - check back
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36) Jun 08...Jodi Melfi,
Absolute Arts - "...what a
great collaboration. We love
working with artists like
yourself who take their
marketing to the next
level..." -- re Teramo
Festival exhibition
35) Jun 08...Lisa Rogers,
Curator - CEAC: Corban Estate
Art Centre -
"...love the Topology
pieces. Very...
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Collections:
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PUBLIC/CORPORATE
-Polly Pratt, Auckland, NZ
-westSMART LTD, Auckland, NZ
-Popsmart LTD, N Shore City,
NZ
-Waitakere City Council, NZ
-Auckland City Council, NZ
PRIVATE
Simon Walter, Auckland, NZ
Warwick&Kitty Brown, Auckland,
NZ
Darnell Dixon, Auckland, NZ
Sarah Little, Auckland, NZ
Anna Boyd-Dunlop, Auckland, NZ
Rod Brodie/Margaret...
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Commissions:
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PopSmart Ltd, North Shore
City, NZ - 2004; 2001
westSMART, Enterprise
Waitakere, Waitakere City, NZ
2003
Enterprise Waitakere,
Waitakere City, NZ - 1995
Auckland City Council,
Auckland City, NZ - 1984/5
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Artist Statement for Clay Bodvin
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The Still Life. The Collage.
Less self-contained, completed truths. More like evolving experiments.
Think early 1600s. Religion losing control; threats to importance by changing manufacturing methods. New lavish abundance; unparalleled desires for luxury goods.
Still life at bottom of the academic, hierarchical canon of genre painting. Only one way to go. The so-called 'trivial subjects' become as aesthetically valid as the 'sublime'.
Still Life paintings considered items of status. Displaying patrons' tastes, desires. Conspicuously public evidence of their ability to acquire and consume.
Look at Dutch flower paintings. Depictions of the Five Senses. Psychological tension of a Vanitas Still Life. Celebrations of excess in paintings of 'Laid Tables, Museums and Wonder Chambers'.1
Fast forward to middle 1800s. Further religious decline. Further improvements in production capabilities. More spectacular commodity consumption. Académies losing influence over form and content of paintings.
Challenging work found in Salons de Refusé.
Think late 1800s. Investigations rife into basic essence of painted image á la Impressionism, Pointillism. Cézanne redefining bowls of fruit. Along comes Fauvism, Cubism.
Extraordinary populist rebirth of the Still Life, again.
Notion of a Still Life reinvented. Matisse rendering luxurious nature of everyday things, without being definitive in representation. Picasso countering with more detached, clinical interpretations.2
Pause at 1912...Still Life with Chair Caning. Cubist Picasso presents Collage as serious art. Fast torward through 20th Century. Early 'trivial subjects' become simply starting points for inspiration.
Matisse expands Collage by 'painting with [his] scissors'. Krasner ruthlessly recycles old work into new Collage pieces. Kolar sums it all up presenting Collage as visual equivalence of Cut-Up Poetry.3
Meanwhile patterns repeat, again. Yet more spectacular consumption. Installations replace earlier paintings of 'laid table, museum and wonder chamber'. More new production methods.
Painting done with Digital brushes and paints. Collage executed with virtual scissors and scalpels. Now applied to pixel-canvases.
Old modes and means of expression made new. Again.
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References -
1. The Art of the Still Life, Norbert Schneider. Taschen, 1990.
2. Tate: The Art Magazine, issue 29, 2002; Matisse Picasso, Neil Cox.
3. History of Collage, Wikipedia, 2008.
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Clay Bodvin ©2008
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