March 12 – 13, 2025, 10 am – 12:30 pm
Many thanks to the artist Anna Slobodnik for her workshop EXPLORATIONS IN PAINTING: Painting – A Serial And Processual Principle during the basic course within the Studio Program at BAI | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
“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.
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.” (Text by courtesy of Anna Slobodnik)
More information on the Anna Slobodnik Website.
