VIEW IN MY ROOM
United Kingdom
Photography, Paper on Paper
Size: 16.3 W x 11 H x 0.1 D in
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My ambition and motivation is to create work of originality and integrity that is printed to the highest quality in small editions. This means that the size, paper and printing method is exactly as I want it to be. Each print is signed and nunbered by hand. Printed on fine art PermaJet Museum paper [310gsm] using gallery pigment archival inks. Each a limited edition, signed and numbered. This series is set in a retail outlet’s car park where the everyday experience of shopping changes, for no apparent reason, from the ‘everyday’ to one of increasing tension and incident. Scenes of crime ensue and it ends with images capturing a chaotic descent into mayhem. To present these ideas I built a three by two metre car park diorama, though not the adjacent retail building, and bought 200 cars at 1/87 scale as well as a quantity of miniature figures and landscaping. I used either natural window light or set up a strong directional light to mimic sunlight as I photographed the diorama from a variety of viewpoints. In many of the photographs I had a fog machine operating to create natural and man-made atmospheric effects. With these scaled models (one is reminded of childhood games with toys), my interest is in making images that employ a playful, though often rather disturbing, illusion. The model-making is both an imitation and a construction of reality. At first glance the images can appear to depict perfectly real scenes but something soon gives them away as models and the viewer has to deal with that. The violence in the road rage and riot images fail the reliability test of 'Silent Witness Theory’, where photographic evidence can be used without the need of an eyewitness.
Photography:Paper on Paper
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1
Size:16.3 W x 11 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Nicholas Cobb is an artist who exhibits regularly and has been the subject of a number of articles about his working method where he constructs elaborate dioramas which are then photographed from various viewpoints. A number of his Car Park series photographs were exhibited in the Whitechapel Gallery and most recently, at the inaugural Peckham Festivals show in the Copeland Gallery, his 7 metre After Oil diorama caused much interest as in the past the size of the dioramas has meant they were never kept or exhibited. A dystopian anxiety runs through these models and series of photographs. Taking the psycho-spatial critique of the built environment found in J.G. Ballard's late novels as a starting point, Cobb implies a narrative or storyboard by arranging 1:87 scale figures in crowded or intimate scenes which grow ever more disturbing. Essays on his work have appeared in ICON, Photofile and fLIP magazines. His Car Park series [2010] features in the recently published Microworlds [2011] – an international survey of artists using the miniature scale. Cultural critic Mark Dery wrote about his Office Park work, 'Like the yuppie apartment-tower dwellers in David Cronenberg’s Shivers, driven to acts of bacchanalian depravity by a sexually transmitted parasite, or the residents in J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise, whose class war escalates into a Conradian nightmare of atavism, the workers in Nicholas Cobb’s Office Park seem to be possessed by a collective dementia.' Cobb also is interested in working directly in landscape. In particular he has been intrigued by the 19th century French 'plein air' landscape painters reaction to the Western landscape tradition. Using an extraordinary mirror that distorts colour and space he has photographed in Fontainebleau [where the Barbizon school worked], Giverny [where Monet created his waterlily pond and outside Aix-en-Provence [where Cezanne painted].
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