FMP INTERACTION ARTISTS

Interaction art



Ernesto Neto:

Ernesto neto works with abstract installations which often take up the entire exhibition space. his materials are gossamer-thin, light, stretchable fabrics in nylon or cotton. like fine membranes fixed to the ceiling by long, stretched threads his works hang down into the room and create shapes that are almost organic. sometimes they are filled with scented spices and hang in tear-shaped forms like gigantic mushrooms or huge stockings, sometimes he creates peculiar soft sculptures which the visitor is allowed to feel through small openings in the surface. he also creates spatial labyrinths which the visitor can enter and thereby experience the work and interact with it. neto’s art is an experience which creates associations with the body and with something organic. he describes his works as an exploration and a representation of the body’s landscape from within. it is important to neto that the viewer should actively interact with and physically experience his work by feeling,
smelling, and touching it.

Why I like his work: I like Ernesto's work as you can interact with the art by using your sense of touch. As well as just putting your hand on his work you can grasp and hug feeling the materials which let off a whole different feel and gives you other thoughts about the art work and maybe giving off a different reason to what you think the art is initially about. I love the soft materials he works with as it makes it more a loving sort of look/feel which makes me have the idea of his work is about loving your body's.  

Jessica Harrison:

Born in St Bees in 1982, Jessica moved to Scotland to study sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art in 2000, going on to do an MFA before completing a practice-led PhD in sculpture in 2013 funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. 
Her research considers the relationship between interior and exterior spaces of the body, but looks neither inwards towards a hidden core, nor outwards from the subconscious, instead looking orthogonally across the skin to the movement of the body itself, using the surface of the body as a mode of both looking and thinking.
Moving beyond a bi-directional model, Harrison proposes a multi-directional and pervasive model of skin as a space in which body and world mingle. Working with this moving space between artist/maker and viewer, she draws on the active body in both making and interpreting sculpture to unravel imaginative touch and proprioceptive sensation in sculptural practice. In this way, Harrison re-describes the body in sculpture through the skin, offering an alternative way of thinking about the body beyond a binary tradition of inside and outside.

Why I like Jessica's work: I like Jessica's work as the way she uses the materials makes the outcome look so realistic and scary. Also I like the idea of creating everyday objects with what looks like skin, probably giving the audience a confused look and making them question why. Her work of porcelain figurines has also got a side of comedy as when I first saw her work I giggled.




Andrea Hasler:

Andrea Hasler was born in Zürich, Switzerland, and currently lives and works in London, UK. She holds an MA Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art & Design.Her wax and mixed media sculptures are characterized by a tension between attraction and repulsion, and highly influenced by artists like John Isaacs, Berlinde De Bruyckere and Louise Bourgeouis. Recent solo projects include ‘Burdens of Excess' at GUSFORD | los angeles, ‚Irreducible Complexity’ and ‚Full fat or semi-skinned?’ Next Level Projects, London. Hasler’s work was recently exhibited at the 1st Santorini Biennale of Arts in Greece, 2012. Her recent solo exhibition Irreducible Complexity will be featured in the upcoming documentary Snapshots of Shoreditch, looking at the art scene in the East End of London. Hasler also chairs artist talks at Next Level Projects and regularly lectures on contemporary art, with a focus on women artist and the body, at various institutions including the Sotheby's Institute of Art, London. Most recently, Hasler has won the Greenham Common Commission for 2014 and is currently artist in residency at Chisenhale, London.



Why I like Andrea's work: I think Andrea if very talented and takes pride in her work. I am interested in wax work and the tent she made caught my eye and gave me ideas towards my own work. 


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Luke Hart

Artist Luke Hart has transcended the borders between the real and surreal, creating a sculptural exploration of human physicality in his ‘Synthetic Being’ sculpture series. The pieces, which feature an astonishing level of realism in mimicking flesh, work to explore the borders between our bodies and the introduction of prosthetics and other ‘foreign’ elements into one’s sense of self

http://lukehart.co.uk/portfolio/fountains-make-people/

http://lukehart.co.uk/portfolio/walking-with-synthetic-being-7/