Discovering, creating, tinkering

        BRI COLAGE

Brief
Bricolage – Inventing small-scale prototypes
Using two and three-dimensional drawings as a working process for conceiving of and making sculpture using bricolage as a way of working.

Ideas:

 

found manikin 1950's

I was going to use an object I had found many years ago and always wanted to manipulate and change it from its original use. Unfortunately, the ready-made manikin was too large and Maria suggested I make a prototype of it in paper or wire. I also brought in some work I had done in 1988 and put them up on the wall, which started to guide my work unconsciously at first but then the movement in the prints and the binding action of the paper, straws, cotton and wire started to take shape and the original work was my inspiration.

At the same time I researched anatomy and physiology and grappled with the idea of internal movement, the hidden, expressed in the use of red and blue (red for blood vessels and blue representing veins)

 The original image is full of emotions, hidden meanings, and opposites like fragility / strength, dominance / subservience, movement /stillness, solid / transparent.

Discovering

In the skip outside of ceramics was an old printer, I took the printer cable and discovered an array of multi-coloured wires, I was very excited by this discovery and went to our local recycling centre that evening. I found a huge variety of cables from domestic appliances, computers etc… went home and stripped each wire to reveal the colour, texture, size, shape; it was like the feeling you get at Christmas when you unwrap a present and discover the contents – sometimes it was disappointing but sometimes it was euphoric!

 Experimenting & Process
The experimentation and process go hand in hand, the use of materials and choices are intuitive.  

Finished

 Research

My research for artists who's working method is Bricolage has taken me down lots of different avenues:

Dustin Yellin
Background

Yellin’s artworks are based on an accumulative process of painting and collaging on multiple layers of glass, creating three-dimensional forms. Yellin began this accumulative process on layers of resin and has transitioned to laminated glass in his more recent works. He uses found objects, images from a wide range of printed material and photorealistic painting to create fantastic scenes and images. Yellin's exploration of how we move within a mental environment of shifting depths is reminiscent of Deleuze’s A Thousand Plateaus and Robert Rauschenberg's combines. His paintings and collages use a method of representing three-dimensional forms that is similar to both lenticular images and rapid prototyping. The technique approximates a static volumetric display and is autostereoscopic. His artworks appear three dimensional without the use of special glasses or viewing equipment. Yellin is currently researching and developing methods of three-dimensional photography and expanding the breadth of his collages and paintings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Yellin

  Why have I chosen this artist?

 An obvious connection would be the human form displaying the body from the inside out, with an added twist of containing, preserving the image in glass. He creates the illusion of 3D when in fact they are 2D. They show a high level of technical competency and a creative mind, pushing conventional boundaries and methods.  

Infact, I found most of the artists working with found objects through the mediums of fine art, music, video, to be very exciting and interesting, playfull, experiemental, creative and inspiring.

 Bricolage Artists

 Virginia Fitzgerald

Egg shell dress

Mandarin dress

Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist

Mr. Rauschenberg’s work gave new meaning to sculpture. “Monogram” was a stuffed goat girdled by a tire atop a painted panel. No American artist, Jasper Johns once said, invented more than

Mr. Rauschenberg. “Beauty is now underfoot wherever we take the trouble to look.”

The process — an improvisatory, counterintuitive way of doing things — was always what mattered most to him. “Screwing things up is a virtue,” he said when he was 74. “Being correct is never the point.

 This attitude also inclined him, as the painter Jack Tworkov once said, “to see beyond what others have decided should be the limits of art.”

Kazuhiko "Palla" Kawahara 

Japanese architect and photographer Kazuhiko Kawahara digitally manipulates images of buildings and the urban built environment. His compositions have a kaleidoscope quality that re-imagines forms and sight lines. These photographs often turn the everyday into something exceptional

 Examples of music and video Bricolage:

Afrika Bambaataa Music – DJ’s and sampling old records - the most important and creative DJ and sampler was Afrika Bambaataa. His anthem "Planet Rock" is based on Kraftwerk's "Trans-Europe Express." The song "Planet Rock" has gone on to be a hugely sampled track.

Amon Tobin - One contemporary musician who works with both sound collage and hip-hop style sampling is Amon Tobin. His first record, which was actually titled Bricolage, blended bossa nova, jazz, drum n bass and electronic styles for what became a completely new hybrid, electronic sound.

Negativland - Another important collective who test the boundaries of sampling, sound collage, visual appropriation and copy right law is Negativland

Clemens Kogler – film maker and  Chris Clark musician produced  - "Herr Barr" by musician Clark demonstrates bricolage across media. All of the images are collage treatments built from cut-outs of photographs of human body parts (the filmmaker, Clemens Kogler, scanned the body parts, then reassembled them). Clark's music blends elements from drum and bass, techno, ambient and hip-hop.

Found image unknown artist