Assemblage - Blog Posts

Saturn returns are always a bummer https://www.instagram.com/p/BsyltEXF523DUHaHmwpPCg9RkDIL9d8qZqg0ak0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1bt446k04spaw

Hi all

I'm showing some of my my small sculptures and a collage in this group exhibition in Peckham next week.

Do come if you're around.

I'll be at the private view on Thursday 28 September from 5:30 - 8:30pm.

And invigilating on Fri 29 Sept from 12 - 6pm.

Otherwise it's open 12- 6pm Wed - Sat next week.

Hope to see you there.

@spacesmarksthings

Small head

6cm x 6cm x 17cm

Cardboard, golf ball, plastic gems

Small pink

15cm

Bricolage: wooden dowel, coin, carved soap, synthetic flower, plastic gem

Covid ka (after Judith Scott)

30cm

Bricolage - wool, wire, fabric, coffee pods, shells sand, plastic, paper, glass

Mixed Media 54:

Mixed Media 48: Jump

Mixed Media 31: Beauty of life

Gold leaf collages by Bambi (Ana Cecilia Treviño), photographed by Héctor García in 1963 Mexico City for a show in Galería Juan Martín.

aaaaaaaaaah k im desperate, i have an art history hw based on assemblage but i don't know any assemblage pieces and when i try, i've even tried googling for ideas but that hasn't helped either SO I COME BEGGING ART TUMBLR TO HELP ME! if you know of any assemblage art piece, (can even be one you've made), could be a building, maybe with some interesting meaning/history behind it (e.g. social commentary, controversial), please PLEASE share it with me :')

Sculpture and patination, Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois , ‘J'y suis, J'y reste’ (Here I stand, Here I stay) - Sculpture, 1990

Louise Bourgeois is known for her surrealist and abstract sculptures. Her assemblage piece ‘Here I stand, Here I stay’ (J'y suis, J'y reste) is of a pair of feet resting on a roughly cut block of marble with a glass house placed on top. In 1967–68 Bourgeois travelled to Pietrasanta in Italy, which is where she discovered the same marble quarries from which Michelangelo sourced his material. 

Bourgeoise’s work often explores the themes of feminism, family relationships and the unconscious. Born in 1911, she grew-up in Paris where her family owned a tapestry gallery and tapestry restoration business. When Louise Bourgeois Mother became ill with Spanish flu, the family hired a British au pair to teach Louise and her brother English. However the au pair soon became their Father’s mistress. This caused him to neglect Louise and her brother which was especially hard for Louise as she had to also care for her sick Mother often. Those childhood feelings of abandonment would become prevalent themes and ideas in the future artwork of Bourgeois. She married an American art historian and lived in America for the rest of her life, leaving her childhood in Paris behind.

The patination of the pink marble is irregular and coarse which makes it seem worn and ancient and this juxtaposes with the smooth texture of the feet which are also sculpted from the very same marble. The glass house which sits on top of the feet gives a certain fragility to the assemblage. The heavy marble again contrasts with the delicate house construction. It seems almost too fragile to be a safe shelter. This could possibly reflect Bourgeoise's own childhood which left her feeling exposed and alone in her family home. The fact that there's only one pair of feet could be referencing the abandonment she felt as a child and could reflect the unstable and lonely atmosphere. The house may also represent Bourgeoise's life as an artist. It gives a home to the bare feet which stand on a rugged piece of marble. This suggests that her art had given her a new way to express herself and fathom those feelings that she experienced as a child.

Sources:

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/656887http://hdamarly.over-blog.com/2015/06/louise-bourgeois-enfance-et-creation.htmlhttp://www.theeastonfoundation.org/biography

Paul Cox

Kyrie (eleison) 2020, 10x20-ish mixed media on masonite Media, in no specific order: Watercolor, acrylic, acryla gouache, gold and silver leaf, gold mica flake, lace

Done for @capri-bigbang2k19 

According to the date on my phone, I finished the sketch in late August. I finished not too long ago, making this my first painting of 2020. How fitting, given this piece includes a lot of firsts: mounting a piece on masonite with matte medium as an adhesive; using squeeze bottles and blunt needles to do fine lining/piping (I need to go thinner,) and making shell gold for the purpose of being liquid gold paint (a technique adapted from how Russian icon painters make shell gold, which is both time-consuming and kind of fun.) I also used matte medium as more adhesive for the lacing after looking into how collage and assemblage artists make their pieces stick without fear of glue breaking or yellowing.

I'd visit this intermittently along with working on bees for my local town - it became a form of therapy in which I was allowed to “get real fucking weird,” as some professionals say.

The dried grass, camellias, roses, sweet peas and baby's breath are a reference to my writing contribution to the Captive Prince Big Bang, which needs to be worked on oops, but I got until Saturday.

Title is from the Christian liturgy, but also a reference to my album of 2019: Lingua Ignota’s Caligula, specifically If the Poison Won’t Take You... (TW: loud music, references to domestic abuse.)