Workshop EXPLORATIONS IN PAINTING: Painting – A Serial And Processual Principle by Anna Slobodnik
General Course Description
How do you develop a series of paintings and what role does painting as a process play in this?
Be it Titian, Monet, Munch, Matisse or Picasso – in the history of art, we repeatedly find artistic positions that work on motifs for years, return to certain motifs again and again or develop them further and further through reductions and condensations, sometimes to the point of unrecognizability.
What lies behind this fascination for the serial and how do we proceed from the individual image to the series, not only being motivated by its content? In this course, we will get to know techniques of reduction and condensation as well as the development of motifs one out of the other. The focus will be on formal and compositional composition and techniques for finding to an image quickly.
Duration: Dates will be published soon.
Hours: Each day from 10 AM – 12:30 PM
Seats: Max. 20 | Language: English
Fees: The participation fee is €90 per person including material (without accommodation).
The fee is VAT-exempt by the Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery Higher Education and Research pursuant to Paragraph 4 No. (21) (a)(bb) UStG (German Value Added Tax Act).
Learning outcomes
In this workshop, participants learn about different types of seriality and are given the opportunity to develop their own painterly series based on formal considerations. In several exercises they will be given the tools to reduce different aspects of their own and others’ works/motifs, to condense them again and to develop them further into other pictorial ideas. The focus of the course lies on the formal aspects of painting, detached from the respective subjective motif.
The participants are asked to bring one of their own paintings/works as a starting point of the process.
Program Structure with Daily Lesson Plan
Day 1
10.00 am – 10.15 am
The first day starts with an introduction into the topic of seriality and process, Anna Slobodnik’s artistic practice and her processual approach.
10.15 am – 11.15 am
In the first exercise of the day, we will find out how to develop new motivical focal points with the help of a passpartous based on the motifs we have brought along/ or found. We will use the passpartous as a frame to separate details that interest us and develop them anew.
11.15 am – 12.10 pm
In the second exercise of the day, we will use the existing motifs in combination with collage elements to expand or re-form the existing compositions. The collage pieces will be used to recreate all the important pictorial elements in order to form possible variations and focal points.
12.10 pm – 12.30 pm
At the end of the first day, we will have a feedback round, where the participants can discuss and get feedback to the compositions and picture ideas that have emerged, the difficulties that occured in finding image ideas and the demands of an interesting composition.
Day 2
10.00 am – 10.15 am
At the beginning of the second day we will have a look at different artistic positions and their variations of the processual and serial.
10.15 am – 11.15 am
In the first exercise of the day, we will look at the extent to which the early stages of the painting already contain pictorial motifs and how these can be varied with the help of interruptions and repetitions. Anna Slobodnik will repeatedly interrupt the painting process individually for each participant after which the participant will start over.
11.15 am – 12.10 pm
The second task of the day is about repeating the first exercise, with the difference that the participants now will decide independently on the moments of their interruption.
12.10 pm – 12.30 pm
We will finish the workshop with another feedbackround, during which we will discuss all the works created and talk about the new insights into seriality principles and their application into their own artistic practice by the participants.
Your Workshop Instructor
Anna Slobodnik (*1990 in Moscow) studied painting and drawing with Mark Lammert and Art in Context with Julia Grosse at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, including Brussels, Olevano Romano, Italy, Gdansk, Oklahoma City, Munich, Heidelberg, and Berlin. She was a recipient of the Initial Stipend of the Akademie der Künste, the Schulz-Stübner-Award for Painting of the UdK Berlin, the Förderpreis für Junge Kunst of the Kunstverein Centre Bagatelle in Berlin and received scholarships of the Junge Akademie, AdK, Berlin in the Villa Serpentara in Olevano Romano, Artists Unlimited, Bielefeld and took part in the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt. She lives and works in Berlin.
More information on the Anna Slobodnik Website.
