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This Section in the blog will be everything else that dosnt have its own section, i would like to see someone write a review on there favourite films? or recent films you have watched that you found interesting and why.
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David Hockney

This "BOOSTER" as Dave would put
it is actually one of the most influential artists of the twentienth century, having had a big part in British pop art movement in the 60's.
Whilst Hockney is well known for his paintings it is his lens based work that i find most appealing . A technique Hockney was very fond of was joiners, where as the name suggests you join a number of photos together to create one image.
In my opinion his best work was his composite polaroids shown below.

Plan @ Robert Mann Gallery

Plan is one of the most significant contemporary art projects to emerge from Poland. Over the course of two years, Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga created a series of ten highly unusual photographic prints: each piece documents the entirety of an apartment, including its occupants, from a normally unavailable perspective — from above. Hundreds of individual photographs are processed and merged using computers to produce the finished piece. In his essay on Grzeszykowska and Smaga's work, Marek Krajewski marvels at the "perfection, continuity, and completeness of representation — unimaginable in traditional photography."

The clinical detachment that seems, at first glance, to characterize the Plan series gives way to a fascinating sociological study of human domestic life. The viewer becomes not only a voyeur, but also an anthropologist, making new discoveries within each image the more it is studied from above. The dizzying complexity of daily existence is exposed, allowing us to recognize what we have in common, but also what makes us unique. Ultimately, this "X-ray of privacy" is "a simple story about life, which consists of an infinite amount of elements and details, as well as the sheer pleasure of perceiving them."

Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga were born in 1974 and graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. They both live and work in Warsaw, Poland.

This exhibition is co-presented with the Refectory Leeds.

www.robertmann.com

DANDI WIND by Jonny

This is some strange act from Canada, not quite sure what their about but non the less heavy track and sweet video!

Direction by Jonny SCAN WHAT!

Direction by Paul - inspired by the 1970 minimal art movement, showing the pure fundamental features, thought processes was quite basic from myself, mainly focusing on space and geometry.
Created by distortion, mind and lines, this is a one off peice i created and is roughly about the size of my wall.
Ghosts by Paul
Notice - the refectory is now armed with two serious scanners

Oleg Dou - http://bouleafacettes.net/




Also further posts in the refectory is either by me (Paul) or Jonny Finch..
special guest david power will also be contributing in the future.