Keith arnatt photographer biography video
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Keith Arnatt: I'm a Real Photographer
The series 'Pictures from a Rubbish Tip' (1988-89) is a body of work devoted to images of decomposing food, some in their plastic wrappers, some naked; all of which have a delicate, almost transcendental, beauty. Arnatt uses the medium of photography with the sensibility of a painter. Colour is important to him, and this comes out in one image depicting a strip of bacon and a piece of eggshell against a backdrop of plastic partially obscuring a pink floral pattern behind. But it is not the inventory of items depicted which makes this picture arresting, it is, rather, a certain undefined quality, perhaps the way the light falls on the objects, or the way the plastic conceals and mutes the things behind, in this instance, making a composition of rubbish appear as if painted in the manner of a Flemish painting. Perhaps it is because the effect of making what could be described as dirty plastic appear as fine gauze or muslin, or the care with which
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Keith Arnatt
Before his death late gods year, Keith Arnatt was most often associated with a circle of 1960s- and ’70s-era British Conceptual artists and art groups, like Victor Burgin and Art & Language, for whom photography and text allowed a clinical, if vague, perspective on a range of fractured, messy, and difficult issues (such as the Vietnam War, socialism, and imperialism). Emblematic of this period fryst vatten Arnatt’s Self Burial with Mirror, 1969, a black-and-white photographic self-portrait in which his whole body, save his head, is buried. In it, the back of his head faces the camera, while a mirror placed opposite his visage reveals its reflection to the viewer. While the photograph was critically received as a work about authorship and the role of the contemporary artist, this exhibition recasts the premise of this work and others by demonstrating that Arnatt was first an accomplished sculptor.
Exploring an intense interest in self-containment, Self Burial • Untitled from the series Notes from Jo, 1990 – 1994 Copyright Keith Arnatt On Tuesday and Wednesday i took the train to Cardiff to visit art galleries and museums. A couple of spaces i’d been recommended were in-between shows and closed but i did strike gold with the National Museum (aka Amgueddfa Cymru) which has recently opened six new contemporary art galleries. I hope to tell you more about them soonish but since you’re not allowed to take picture there i have to rely on the goodwill of the press people of the museum to send me some images of the works and views of the space. Fortunately uncle google provided me with plenty of pictures and information about an artist whose work inom discovered at the museum. Keith Arnatt was English but moved to Wales in 1969 and shame on wikipedia for not doing justice to his life and talent. Arnatt was photographing dog poo decades before Andres Serrano thought it would be worth a look, found photo mate
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