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22 March |
Kyle Clements: Brain Candy (2005) |
“Brain Candy” is a 12 part series of acrylic paintings from 2005.
The intention of this series is to poke fun at art universities that spend a lot of time writing about art, talking about art, and thinking about art, but very little time is spent actually looking at or making art. Aesthetics are routinely dismissed as ‘eye candy’, while certain concepts and ideas are pushed. However, the concepts that art universities deem ‘acceptable’ seem to fall within a very small bubble. Ideas from outside this bubble are either not understood, or rejected outright.
These ‘acceptable ideas’ were printed onto paper cards, and randomly placed on each artwork, to demonstrate how arbitrarily many of these ‘concepts’ seem to be attached to an art work. The tags are non-archival, and will fall off with time, much like how the ideas we attach to an artwork will be lost with time, yet the actual piece of art will remain.
I don’t paint with this technique too often anymore, so if there is enough interest, I could post a video demonstration of how I achieve this effect with acrylic paint
Kyle Clements
ps: While I retain all rights to these paintings, the content of this video is released under a creative commons attribution share alike non-commercial license. In short, this means that you can do whatever you want with it, so long as you don’t make any money off of it, you credit me, and you release your version under these same conditions.
Duration : 0:3:19
This video was sent to us by David Ballinger. I think it is one of the most creative things I have ever seen. Please Enjoy. (song- Daylight – troublemaker remix featuring De La Soul)
Filmmaker Jean Renoir speaks on the role of modern universities in the development of art.
