Magnum Awards 2016 - RICOCHET, Series Category, Fine Art
REVIEWER FEEDBACK
I am however really thrown off by pictures 3 and 9, with the orange peel and the black tongue. They definitely disrupt the experience for me. They feel like goofy pictures of kids that make me feel as if I'm looking at a snapshot. They take me out of the poetic experience of the rest of the pictures.
Also while I can kind of see in some ways the Shakespearian allusions it's quite limited to me -- maybe the woods and the theatrical aspect, but I for me they resonate more strongly with the idea of fairy tales and childhood rather than Shakespeare and I'm slightly confused by that early part of the statement/review/wall text (curators comments?). I would suggest however that you reconsider some of the assertions in the statement. Its somewhat awkward to have a review as your own artist statement. I can see that perhaps it was wall text or even text for a book, but I find it keeps me away from really experiencing the work-- While I think artists should generally speaking be quite limited in how they interpret their own work, in this case I would rather hear your ideas and your words than someone else's.
All in all I think these are quite intriguing and interesting pictures that bring together excellent technical and aesthetic skills. You clearly have a strong intuitive sense and an ability to create a world. The pictures verge on a narrative and then pull back in a way that I find quite compelling and excellent.
This is interesting work that is exciting and you are clearly very skilled and I am very much pulled in by your work.
I am very much taken with these pictures. The pull me in an create a feeling. They are self-conscious and carefully created in a very pleasing way that functions like a stage play where I can revel in the clarity and the precision knowing that this has been created for my (the viewers) visual pleasure and experience. I love how the images verge on the edge of being paintings but hover still in the photographic world. The fragments of nature (picture 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10), the seeds , the stump, the shack and the nest and the mouse all work very well together and within the context of the pictures of the kids They are I think fragments that start to point towards a possible narrative--of a kind of wildness and darkness in the woods. But also beautiful observations that reflect to my mind the way a small thing, particularly to a child can take on a greater meaning. These carefully observed and beautifully rendered objects interspersed with the children works very well for me.
I am however really thrown off by pictures 3 and 9, with the orange peel and the black tongue. They definitely disrupt the experience for me. They feel like goofy pictures of kids that make me feel as if I'm looking at a snapshot. They take me out of the poetic experience of the rest of the pictures.
Also while I can kind of see in some ways the Shakespearian allusions it's quite limited to me -- maybe the woods and the theatrical aspect, but I for me they resonate more strongly with the idea of fairy tales and childhood rather than Shakespeare and I'm slightly confused by that early part of the statement/review/wall text (curators comments?). I would suggest however that you reconsider some of the assertions in the statement. Its somewhat awkward to have a review as your own artist statement. I can see that perhaps it was wall text or even text for a book, but I find it keeps me away from really experiencing the work-- While I think artists should generally speaking be quite limited in how they interpret their own work, in this case I would rather hear your ideas and your words than someone else's.
All in all I think these are quite intriguing and interesting pictures that bring together excellent technical and aesthetic skills. You clearly have a strong intuitive sense and an ability to create a world. The pictures verge on a narrative and then pull back in a way that I find quite compelling and excellent.
This is interesting work that is exciting and you are clearly very skilled and I am very much pulled in by your work.
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