The Painting of Modern Life Exhibition Hayward London

http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/minisites/painting/

I visited The Painting of Modern Life exhibition back in 2008 and it was the most inspiring exhibition I have ever been to and probably the exhibition that really made me want to pursue a career in fine art. It was "an exhibition of compelling canvases and seminal works that explores the use and translation of photographic imagery in the history of contemporary art". Here is a very interesting video of the curators (Ralf Rugoff) presentation on the exhibition...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQrxFYd6q7o

I haven't purposefully sought out to copy this exhibition but it just so happens that many of the artists I have selected were featured in this exhibition and the reasons as to why I chose them is the relationship between photography and paint; how they reference both in their work yet create an entirely new image. Photography is an important component and process within my own practice. It is usually the starting point of my work and I then spend the rest of my time translating these photographic sources into paint and print trying to achieve a proportional influence of both media upon the image. Because of this I will stick with my current translation theme even though it does reference this exhibition a lot. I have already decided to take it out of the white cube space and feature different artists and different works so I think I have already made it more personal to me and my perfect fantasy exhibition.