Georgia Russell - Knjiga kao umetničko delo

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Georgia Russell was born in 1974 in Elgin, Scotland. She studied Fine art at Aberdeen University and the Royal College of Art and is a visiting lecturer at universities and art schools. Russell has exhibited with England & Co since 2002.

Russell uses a scalpel instead of a brush or pen, and works with obsessive perseverance and patience to make her constructions of cut paper. She appropriates found materials and utilises their decorative qualities and inherent potential as she manipulates, cuts and transforms books, music scores, newspapers, currency, maps and photographs.

Russell's work with books and ephemera first began in Paris while she was still at the Royal College of Art. Old books have always seemed to her like sculptural objects which had their own history, 'representing the many hands which have held them and the minds they have passed through'. She resurrects her discovered materials to give them 'a new life and new meaning'. There is a simultaneous sense of loss and preservation in each work as she wants to retain and reclaim the past as much as her techniques attack it.

Her chosen materials are transformed, sometimes with flamboyant colour and wild cutting, sometimes with discreet play on the subject or title of her printed ephemera. For Russell, her cut-out traceries with their accompanying shadows function as 'membranes of memories': sometimes looking as if they have been disturbed by a breeze or slight tremor, they represent 'our fading recollections of a time, person or place' and hover between object and image. She often utilises the decorative qualities of her found materials in the process of appropriating and manipulating them to form subversively ornamental constructions.

Georgia Russell's third solo exhibition with England & Co was held in March 2005 and she is represented by the gallery. She has recently completed a public art commission for the new Jubilee Library in Brighton and her work has been acquired the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Mavro Kazafranka · Administrator

jimson_crimson · Pristupio: 18 Apr 2006 Poruke: 1772 Studijska grupa: Istorija umetnosti

Fino izgleda, mislim lepo je na oko ali dosta podsca na vec odavno
radjene asamblaze Josepha Cornella

A da ne pominjem da je malo dete za Mercbau! Smajli

Mavro Kazafranka · Administrator

Pa ne bas... pored toga sto, za razliku od Cornella, Russellova znacajno preoblikuje odabrane predmete krajnji efekat je mnogo ekspresivniji. Lici ti samo zato sto su im donekle slicne tehnike, lici koliko i Rembrandt i Delacroix...

A Merzbau... LOL