Let's continue the prints and patterns thread reinterpreting it from the art point of view by looking at the work of two different artists. The first one is Wade Guyton who mainly focuses in his work on modernist and minimalist art, playing with glitches, deformations and distortions.
For a few years now he has been developing inkjet printed drawings. In the first ones he used a desktop printer to overlay graphic patterns and typographic symbols (mainly "X" and "U") on the pages of magazines and art catalogues.
He then moved onto different inkjet works, feeding pre-primed canvas through printers and therefore producing errors. More recently he took to creating series of works by feeding a folded canvas into a printer to paint both sides with a black TIFF file.
Some of his untitled works on display at the 55th International Venice Art Biennale are the results of Guyton's efforts to print (with an Epson UltraChrome K3 on linen) a bitmap file converted from a fifty percent black TIFF. While being the embodiment of binary codes, the resulting "paintings" also show the fallibility of digital technology.
The second artist is sculptor Alice Channer who employs clothing and fashion as the means to explore various themes, such as the human body, issues linked to labour or to the translation of materials and shapes into different dimensions.
The human form is represented in her work through bits and pieces of garments like elastic waistbands or shirt cuffs, elements that hint at the body through its absence.
Channer mainly uses post-industrial processes including retouching images and digital printing, combining them with handmade techniques like hand-carving marble and machine-cutting steel.
In one of her previous works for example she digitally printed on fabric an imprint of her arm in ink and then wrapped it around handmade distorted aluminum forms based on the shapes of Yves Saint Laurent's drawings for his iconic "Le Smoking" tuxedo jacket.
Some of her most famous works include enlarged images digitally printed on ten-metre-long bolts of crêpe de chine that, when showcased in galleries, are suspended from the ceiling and anchored to the floor via slabs of marble.
Channer's works will be on display at The Approach gallery booth (B6) at the Frieze London event (17th - 20th October 2013).
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