Im ging on a trip to yorkshire sclupture park next week so i thought id do a little research first. The current exhibiting artuists at the moment are Lucy and George Orta and Josephsohn.
Lucy and George Orta. These two are actually man and wife, both living, working a brteathing the same vision. They go travelling to sorce inspiration for their works and have recently tyravelled to Zabilin in Cyro. They went to a huge recyling communtity called Moca Town. Where vthey recycked plastic bottles, they inspration grew from a huge bundle of plastic bottles thats trated to look like sculpture, They started looking into using plastic bottles as material and building material, like brick. The clouds project was linked with 120 architechture students, which tells me space, structure and size doesnt face them. They wanted it to be seemeless, they call it a nebuless form. They start to think of collection of waste in the ocean startuing a thought process of movement and fluidity. She keeps reffereing it to be a nebuless form, no idea what that meant so i Google'd it, neb·u·lous
1. Cloudy, misty, or hazy.
2. Lacking definite form or limits; vague: nebulous assurances of future cooperation.
3. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a nebula.
They talk about a discussion with water with liquid and wanted to combine the two products togther to get thiese colosal sculptures. I like the fact that grouped up with students, i thin k to gte some young new fresh sense combining with their wise and experienced minds. I like that they have shared opportunity with the students and not shyed away from letting the audiemnce know.
Lucy says her previous work are kind of kit like? And shes expressed fluidity and movbement through these peices and
The rath of medusa, they talk about the boat being capsized and the migration of the sailors in the picture, they linked that to a previous project about antarctica and talking about the peace in antactica and people fleeing from their homes. They talk about spirits in their work from the stories. They say the spirits are drawn out of the place and washed down the river. 'Water Spirits' They make up characters such as mannon, ulbelka, gyptis, mary magdalin, her tears start the flow of water that runs through the river.
Their main influence for work is political, environmental and social issues, they want to express these issues in a free flow movement and kind of is like story telling, drawing in the pblic and creating this new interpretation for the issues.
They have actualy made some performances, for rath of meduca, entailing the relasing of sprit and washing them away in the ocean just like the plastic bottles. They use the word 'shipwreked' to describe it. The raft is swimming in a sea of shirts, identities, and they were all the identity and then washing the identitioes away. Pushing their hurt and identities away. They put their sculptures in as props, they add in inflatable beach toys, making them out of paper mache and resin. They talk about a beach and siociety being ignorant to the other side of the beach where there are migrants coming to seek serenity and survival. Its about what the eye sees and what it doesnt want to see.
They present their work spced out, in a modern organised kind of way, as in everything has a place, i like how theyve placed thing around, making them apparent to the audience and isnt all brickity brack like. The wrath of madusa peice is placed in a vast room in the midde, which i think represents the vastness of the ocean, and the panic they must of felt being surrounded by water and not land, the shirts place all around like little islands and false security, looking also a little like floating bodies, i think its a little ironic how the peice is brightly painting with shades of pastels, putting a sweet tuck shop take on the piece but when you actually look into the piece and see the shirts hanging loosly on the floor, empty, lifeless and still, you start to feel a shudder and studying the bright shades of pastel because faded with this dark cloud of depression that looms with the past and story this peice entails.
Josesphson.
Josephesons work is about the human figure, mostly woman, woman hes known, loved, laughed and married. He more is huge forms, he brings architechture into his work and is which I think is that's the way they are presented, on these very formal frames, blocks of concrete. Framing his works, in a formal way to mirror the surroundings, the formal, balconey opening onto the grandens.
His work looks like is made out of clay, the movements of his work to me, describes and lazy,
He was inspired by woman, his wife, his lovers, his aquaintances, he was a jewish boy, he was in a way forced to grow up and had threats of deportation byutsaved because of his friends, and that makes me think that these sculptures of friends and lovers are maybe a thankyou?
This is Hans Josephsons Sculptures.
I dont really like this work at all, trying to show the human form in a great big pile of clay isnt my thing. Some 'open minds' may see the sculptures as veluctious and see the figure in them but maybe im just not that open minded, i literrally cant even find emotion of a story in this work, cant find an object or a theory, just a pile of clay. I like the texture on them, i like deep ridges of the clay matched with smooth ones.
It almost looks like stone but when i knocked on the peices they were hollow and felt like plastic.
Megdalena Abakanowicz.
I like this these peices, bit of tonge and cheek going on with these massive scale hare's. The scale of the sclupures makes it feel more impowerd, more premicous with its 'porno' poses. The second picture is of a hare in a sedeuctive pose likes its crawling towards you acting like a beyonce music vid where she so sexily crawls out of a gorgo=eous blue sea. Imrinted into the hares
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The positioning of the hare, were the hands are positioned are a sign gives air of sexual poise. The way its sat on its legs but legs silgty open showing a position of a sexual nature. The contraversity of it being a hare is usually not classified as a sexual deviant in the animal kingdom. i have no clue why the artists has cut a path through it, maybe to show the sclae of he hare aaint the building beside it. Show a pathway to the tny building againt this collosall hare. 
Ursula von Rydingsvard.
This peice reminded me of medusa, this not think? This head handging with these possesive threads coming from it, wraping and protecting it, outlining it. The glass gives it a lighness but not a softness, makes it seem sharp and menising. They set it out almost mosaic like, picsaliated with these small cubes making this vast sculpure like lego. I love all the different bumps, love how its nots one objects, love the different hades and lines and all the different comapnats that make this magnificant sculputure
      
Peter Liversidge.
Love a little bling. This work looks like something from a nightclub stir in Magaluf with thie bright bold bulbs and a little out of place in YSP. 'Everythig is conected' This showbiz sign is
   
Anthony Caro.
This to me looks like a 3D Picasso painting. All the different the diffeent shapes and sizes. If they just stck a slide and a climbing wall on it would make a beltin playground. The mass of it seems uninvitingbut then the curves in the shaes and the spces that invite you to take and seat and climb make it almost a fun park for all to enjoy, (hopefully intended or else excuse my brashness to pass it off like that.
      
Sol LeWitt.
Dont know what to think weather to like it or not, i feel like if i do im bypassing the fact it looks as if just dumped some bricks ready for a kitchen conversion. (obviously cleavery placed) but never the less, looks like that. But then i also feel i have to praise the artists for steping out and being blatenly rude about sculpture and looking outside those bricks and looking deeper to find his own ittle meanng in them and creating a sculuture from an everyday'er. A man made and ugy material but when plaed correctly beautiful and organised. Symetrical and poised to make a set of build blocks. With it beind graduated, it tempts viewers to stp up on to itand right down the other side, it really remiinds me of that grand old saints o york song were the march up th stairs and back down again. Or is the saints one? either way there you go. Make your own mind up on this dilemma.
  
Lucy and George Orta Exhibition.
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Context. In what way?
Teachers Definition: The way in which something is displayed.
Dictionary Definition: The situation in within which something exists or happens.
Historical Context: The history behind the artwork- from what period does it originate? The artists and what era they belong to. The history of the place in which the artwork is located.
Immediate Environment: The location of the artwork. What is surrounding the work when you explore it close-up. Example- Surrounded by trees, not just set in a park. Not just in a white box gallery, in a set of four.
Wider Environment: The bigger picture of where it is located. Example- In a gallery, in a public place.
Personal Experience: The experience of the individual or group of individuals viewing the work.
Personal analysis.
Sometimes the context where someones artwork is set can change the style of the artists to create a 'safer' option. Like kind of a commercial piece where its an every bodies piece, no swearing, sex or violence. Like stamping a PG style in the work.
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