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July 2010 / Simon Ingram Random Walk Machine
See videos of Simon Ingram's recent projects including the travelling exhibition Your Eyes Only in Brussels here on You Tube.
It is rare that international critics head this far into the South Pacific so we are especially pleased that our current exhibition TAG is reviewed in ARTFORUM online.
New York based critic Michael Wilson writes "Ranged around the space in ones and twos, the diminutive panels perform a variety of material and compositional stunts, the paired artists' contributions interacting neatly with each other to the degree that they nearly appear as products of a single hand. All the pictures make use of intense color, Cousins adding the counterpoint of allover textural effects, while Ingram relies on simple, linear brushwork." Read the full review online here or down load.
WITH YOUR EYES ONLY is an experimental project featuring new work by Simon Ingram at Kunsterverein Medienturm in Graz, Austria . The show looks at elements of perception in a collage of artistic interventions and objects. Within the framework of reductive art, the levels of perception and mechanisms of viewing are questioned in a multi-disciplinary and playful approach.
The basis for this are the phenomenological premises of the artistic production process, such as colour, light, material or time, which influence the structure und content of reductive works, thereby opening up the exemplary questioning regarding perception. The visual scaffolding for the artistic interventions is an architectonic display which shifts the exhibition spaces by 35 degrees, thereby triggering the experience and shifted perception of reductive art.
Exhibiting artists include Simon Ingram, Greet Billet, Kjell Bjorgeengen, Alexandra Dementieva & Aernould Jacobs, Ward Denys, Clemens Hollerer, Leopoldine Roux, Esther Stocker, Tilman, Pieter Vermeersch, Dan Walsh and Carrie Yamaoka.
With your Eyes Only runs 12.12.2009 - 13.02.2010
July 2009 I Simon Ingram at CCNOA, Brussels
See images of Simon Ingram's recent exhibition at CCNOA (Centre for Contemporary Non-Objective Art) in Brussels, here. Watch a short video of his Random Walk painting machine in action here.
June 2009 I Simon Ingram at Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz
Simon Ingram has been invited to exhibit in With Your Eyes Only, a group show of international artists at Kunstverein Medienturm in Graz, Austria. Opening in December this year the exhibition looks at concepts of perception and particularly the perception of art.
Ingram will be exhibiting alongside Kjell Bjrgeengen (NO), Alexandra Dementieva (RU/BE) & Aernoud Jacobs (BE), Ward Denys (BE), Clemens Hollerer (AT), Lopoldine Roux (FR/BE), Esther Stocker (IT/AT), TILMAN (DE/BE), Pieter Vermeersch (BE), Dan Walsh (US), Carrie Yamaoka (US)
May 2009 I Simon Ingram at CCNOA in Brussels
Simon Ingram will be exhibiting at CCNOA - Centre for Contemporary Non-Objective Art in Brussels this month. The centre will be exhibiting video work by Piki & Liesbet Verschueren (BE) and site-specific works by Eric Tallinghast (US) and Simon Ingram. The exhibition opens on 28 May and runs through 14 June 2009.
14. 02. 2009 I Simon Ingram in ARTWORLD Magazine
On the heels of his recent show opening at Gow Langsford Gallery last week, Amber McCulloch interviews Simon Ingram in the latest Artworld Magazine.
Talking about his work in relationship to formalism and the history of abstraction Ingram reveals, There is a slogan, lay bare the device, that is central to Russian formalism in literature. My machines are an interpretation of this. Im laying out in plain view the mechanism of the painting, but in another way Im relating that idea to available technology and technology thats changed.
Simon Ingrams Boing Boom Tschak is on view at Gow Langsford Gallery until 25 February 2009.
www.artworldmagazine.com.au
04. 11. 2008 I Simon Ingram talks with James Kalm
During the recent opening of MINUS SPACE at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / MoMA, the artist-journalist James Kalm shoots footage and talks with Simon Ingram about his latest painting machine. You can find it here, about a third of the way through the clip:
02. 09. 08 I Simon Ingram at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
We are pleased to announce that Simon Ingram will be exbiting new work at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center from October 2008 until January 2009.
Curated by Phong Bui, artist, Brooklyn Rail publisher, and P.S.1. Curatorial Advisor, the exhibition will feature 54 artists from 14 countries. The exhibition will mark MINUS SPACE's 5th anniversary.
MINUS SPACE
Curated by Phong Bui
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / MoMA
Long Island City, NY
October 19, 2008 - January 19, 2009
Opening: October 19, 12-6pm
11. 11. 2008 I Simon Ingram on Vernissage TV
Basel based, Swiss project, Vernissage TV interviews Simon Ingram at P. S. 1 / MoMA.
Vernissage TV
Simon Ingram / Senior Lecturer at Elam School of Fine Arts
Simon Ingram will take up the position of Senior Lecturer at Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, in late January 2008
Simon Ingram joins Gow Langsford Gallery
Simon Ingram has exhibited locally and internationally for over ten years. His work is held in the Gibbs, Chartwell and Fletcher Trust collections, and he was recently awarded a Creative New Zealand New Work Grant. Over the last twelve months his work has featured in four major public gallery exhibitions: Just Painting at the Auckland Art Gallery, Four Times Painting at the Adam Art Gallery, The Secret Life of Paint, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, and PX: A Purposeless Production/A Necessary Praxis currently showing at AUT"s St Paul Street Gallery.
Through its use of DIY technology and self organising systems Ingram's work investigates decision making in painting and the relationship between the machine made and the human or hand made. Painting Assemblage No.6, currently on show at 34 ST Paul St Auckland, consists of a machine constructed from aluminium and Lego painting an abstract image on a 2 x 2 metre linen canvas in thick white oil colour with a brush. The painting produced is pictorially lyrical and dense yet produced entirely by a machine over the course of the exhibition.
These works expose hand-made painterly gesture to a model of painting that is mechanistic and electronic but which maintains dialogue with certain gritty, material and traditional givens in the practice of painting such as makerly thickness, gesture and support. Over the course of a paintings exhibition and production, the machine appropriates the gallery as studio, to paint an algorithmically generated T-square fractal. Attached to the gallery wall, and clutching a brush, the machines paint head travels over a raw linen canvas painting each stroke by periodically dipping its brush into a dripping Lego paint pot. Although the format of the fractal is determined by the machines software, the sequence of brush strokes and decisions on their length and density are generated on-the-fly and in relation to the moment-to-moment life of the painting, all of which contributes to the complex visual field of the paintings produced.
Simon Ingram, 2008