Colour Field Film and Video
Friday 21 November – Saturday 22 November 2008
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Len Lye
Color Cry 1952–3 © Image courtesy the Len Lye Foundation, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and the New Zealand Film Archive |
The two programmes in this series look at the myriad ways in which 'colour fields' have been explored in artists' films and videos. The work included spans the history of experimental film and video, from some of the earliest avant-garde films of the 1920s to contemporary digital abstraction. Links are explored between these films and videos and certain trends in abstract painting, from constructivist aesthetics through to colour field painters, including Mark Rothko. The use of colour in the works that comprise these programmes is sometimes celebratory or playful, but always critical and direct.
- Colour Field Film and Video: Kinetic Colour Friday 21 November 2008
- Colour Field Film and Video: Contrasting Surfaces Saturday 22 November 2008
This series is related to the Rothko exhibition
Curated by Simon Payne
Simon Payne is a video artist. Most recently his work has shown in a programme entitled Aleatory Colour: Perception / Memory / Material curated by Peter Gidal, for the Serpentine Gallery. He has a PhD from the Royal College of Art and is a Senior Lecturer in Communication, Film and Media Studies at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.
Simon Payne is a video artist. Most recently his work has shown in a programme entitled Aleatory Colour: Perception / Memory / Material curated by Peter Gidal, for the Serpentine Gallery. He has a PhD from the Royal College of Art and is a Senior Lecturer in Communication, Film and Media Studies at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.