aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] MY DEAR MALEVICH exhibition by Tom Chambers at ZhaoqingUniversity Art Gallery

[trcpr trcpr <trc_news_release@yahoo.com>]

NEWS RELEASE

MY DEAR MALEVICH exhibition by Tom R. Chambers at Art
Gallery, Fine Arts Department, Zhaoqing University,
China, April 2-15, 2007.

View installation at:

http://www.tomrchambers.com/malevich_exhib_zqu.html

These Pixelscapes that comprise the exhibition were
found within a photo of Kasimir Malevich
[Ukranian-born artist, 1878-1935] via magnification,
filter treatment [halftone] and isolation of the
pixel(s) in Photoshop.

Malevich founded the art movement, Suprematism in
Moscow, 1913 as a parallel to Constructivism.
Suprematism ["supremacy of forms"] is a study in
abstraction conceived in itself ... non-objective and
not related to anything except geometric shapes and
colors ... and a precursor to Minimalism. 

He states, "Under Suprematism I understand the
supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the
Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective
world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant
thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the
environment in which it is called forth. I took refuge
in the square form and exhibited a picture which
consisted of nothing more than a black square on a
white field. It is filled with the spirit of
nonobjective sensation which pervades everything. This
is no empty square, but rather the feeling of
nonobjectivity."

This homage is also a confirmation of Chambers'
Pixelscapes as Minimal Art and in keeping with
Malevich's Suprematism ... the feeling of
nonobjectivity ... the creation of a sense of bliss
and wonder via abstraction. Chambers' action of
looking within the Malevich photo to find the basic
component(s) ... pixel(s) is the same action as
Malevich looking within himself ... inside the
objective world ... for a pure feeling in creative art
to find his "Black Square", "Black Cross" and other
Suprematist works.

And there's a mathematical parallel between Malevich's
primitive square ["Black Square"] ... divided into
four, then divided into nine ["Black Cross"] ... and
Chambers' Pixelscapes. The pixel is the most basic
component of any computer graphic, and it can be
represented by 1 bit [a 1 if the pixel is black, or a
0 if the pixel is white]. And filters [tools (e.g.,
halftone)] in a graphics program like Photoshop
produce changes by mathematically modifying pixel
values based on the values of neighboring pixels.

Malevich and those Minimalists who followed later
would probably have had great appreciation for this
basic and mathematical component ... the pixel. And
beginning in 2000, his Pixelscapes were somewhat of a
revelation for him when compared to the nonobjective
works of Malevich and other Minimalists generated 40
years before the pixel and 80 years before the Digital
Revolution. It seemed that Chambers had managed to do
what they had done through the simple process of
magnification, treatment and isolation of the
pixel(s).

The online counterpart to the show can be seen at:

http://www.tomrchambers.com/malevich.html

and Chambers' other Pixelscape work can be seen at:

http://www.tomrchambers.com/pixma.html

Chambers has been pursuing the pixel as Minimal art
since 2000, and many of his Pixelscapes have been
shown in the U.S.A., Australia, Russia, Spain,
England, Brazil, Philippines, India and China.

Chambers' website:

http://tomrchambers.com

Zhaoqing University Art Department website:

http://ns27.zqu.edu.cn/msx/english/index.html

Chambers' students' art activities:

http://www.tomrchambers.com/zqu.html

Contacts:

Professor Lu Li
Dean
Fine Arts Department
Zhaoqing University
luli@zqu.edu.cn

Tom R. Chambers
Visting Lecturer, Digital/New Media Art
Fine Arts Department
Zhaoqing University
chambersdva@yahoo.com


 
____________________________________________________________________________________
No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go 
with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started.
http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail