Installationview: Ryan McGinness

In my last post I mentioned the idea of my work moving towards 'expanded field installation' and so when I happened to literally stumble upon the book: Installationview Ryan McGinness it confirmed my concepts and theories I was considering in my own work. McGinness is an American artist who has joined his two passions of graphic design, utilising digital technology with semiotics (signs/logos/symbols etc) with painting to create visual worlds that are completely immersive with work from wall to canvas, to floor, and to skate board, which brings the element of skate and underground culture to his work.

"MULTIVERSE,” 2004-2005, INSTALLATION VIEW, MIXED MEDIA, DIMENSIONS VARIABLE,GALERIE DU JOUR, PARIS

“WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS,” 2003, MIRROR MAZE INSTALLATION, DIMENSIONS VARIABLE, DEITCH PROJECTS, NEW YORK

A quote from Installationview by Jeffrey Deitch, "Worlds within Worlds featured a walk-in, mirrored image. These reproductions of reproductions reflected the concept of McGiness' infinitely reproducible digitally based visual information. Like his maze, McGinness' confounding universe seems infinitely expandable." (2005, p. 015)

Mark Pennings also discussed another artist in his lecture in Contemporary Art Issues on Rebirth of Painting (03/05/07) who was creating 'expanded field paintings' in an installation/sculptural environment or as Mark put it an "expanded field visual environment". The artist was Michel Majerus (1967-2002) who died at the early age of 35. The e-flux article below is a précis description of his influences, concepts and image from the exhibition at Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum in 2005.

http://www.e-flux.com/displayshow.php?file=message_1108158401.txt

(viewed 05/05/07)