A new exhibition at Bower Ashton Faculty of Creative Arts in Bristol entitled 'The Library of Individuals' explores the body of work from MA Graphic Arts Students.
How their individuality affects their art. Alongside posters and typography, is a selection of the work done during the past few months - including, motion graphics and animations.
From the 20th to the 24th of February 2012.
F Block Gallery Bower Ashton Faculty of Creative Arts - Bristol, BS3 2JT.
Fei Yuan
In the exhibition I am going to show a group of work was developed from ‘the Library of Babel project. From the very beginning of observing the libraries and books around us in our lives to trying to make a range of shapes out of the books and photographs, and then to cutting out a book made the book sculpture. Going through the whole project, religion elements were concerned as the original text describes the environment of Babel.
Shapes, are another very important factor in the process of development. The combination of shapes and religions made me begin to try to add the simplest shapes in my work, those were square, triangle and circle. The repeating of one simple shape in every different but similar book page was the key thing of presenting religious feeling from a shape of the book. And in the end the photographs with very close shots on the cut out book brought out the effect of the unreadable words, and that was just simply fascinating.
Other than the ‘Library of Babel’ final work, I am also going to show the practical works I have done while developing the ideas for the project. Including 2 lithography print works, and the original book sculpture.
Apart from the project ‘Library of Babel’ I am going to show a 60 seconds animation film of the other project ‘All about me’. The film was developed with stop motion technique and edited in Adobe After Effect.
