THE BEAUTIFUL FORMULA COLLECTIVE / University of Hertfordshire

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An outstanding element of the process of painting is the rhythm in which the fabrication of an art work is accomplished. Rhythmical structures generate the process of painting as a more or less determinated movement in space and time. It gives form to the application of colours on surfaces. The rules of such a shaping, its sequence and number can be set and handled as rhythmical motives like, for example, 2,3,1 or 1,1,2. Here the 1 is to be conceived as a basal unity of movement that can be freely chosen. Surface: To gain certainty in dealing with different tempos while applying colours, the surface is divided in parts through numeric impulses that we call meter (1/4, 1/9, 1/16…).

How can such structures and motives of the process of art be performed and presented in a live environment, in front of the audience? The works to be generated are produced in a set point in time on empty image carriers already at hand. Working on them can be executed both alone as well as in a group. Hereby different rhythmical motives, meters, colours and materials as well as the entry of the persons involved are joined, so as to generate a constant composition, however implemented in a variable way.

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86, Koktebel, Crimea, Ukraine 2013
Oleksiy Koval, Veronika Wenger

Music: Koktebel Soundscapes, Dmytro Goncharenko
Video: VJ Yarkus

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86, Oleksiy Koval, Veronika Wenger, Koktebel, Crimea, Ukraine 2013. Photo © Sergei Kazmiruk

86, Veronika Wenger, 2013

1. M  1/4,  [*–,–,–] (5-7)
2. M  1/25b,  [1,1,1,2]
3. M  1/9,  [*1,2,1,3,1,5]

E  a,b,c,d,e,f

U unit
# entry
M meter
R rhythmical motive
E element

* hits the meter
[] within the same area
(n) size of unit

This composition have been written using The Beautiful Formula Language.

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VERONIKA WENGER, MUSEUM OF ODESSA MODERN ART, 4TH ODESSA BIENNALE

104th Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art 2015, Museum of Modern Odessa Art

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Veronika Wenger, Da2, detail, 165 x 300 cm, mixed media on wall, 2015. Photo © Daniel Geiger

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Veronika Wenger, Da1, detail, 165 x 60 cm, mixed media on wall, 2015. Photo © Daniel Geiger

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Veronika Wenger, Da2, detail, 165 x 300 cm, mixed media on wall, 2015. Photo © Daniel Geiger

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Veronika Wenger, Da1, detail, 165 x 60 cm, mixed media on wall, 2015. Photo © Daniel Geiger

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Veronika Wenger, Da1, detail, 165 x 60 cm, mixed media on wall, 2015. Photo © Daniel Geiger

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Veronika Wenger, Da2, detail, 165 x 300 cm, mixed media on wall, 2015. Photo © Daniel Geiger

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Veronika Wenger, “Da1″ & “Da2”, mixed media on wall, 2015. Photo © Daniel Geiger

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THE INNER NECESSITY BY KARIN WIMMER

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Veronika Wenger Drawing02, 2015
pencil, marker on paper 160cm x 150 cm

… Of course, it can be assumed that overcoming tradition is no longer of any concern to contemporary artists and had long been consigned to history, but it is obvious that in Veronika Wenger‘s work, drawing 02, as well as Gonghong Huang‘s Untitled 153 and Untitled 154 or indeed in the works of Huang- sheng Wang, composition appears to play an important role. Wenger‘s drawing 02 is based on work with Hedda Gabler, a planned film project from 2012. Wenger made some drawings for this project. A statement by Hedda Gabler “I … danced myself tired,” inspired Wenger to explore the dance and ballet of William Forsythe, who has worked intensively with grammar, language and dance. In drawing 02, Wenger uses writing, shapes and lines to convey a compositional statement about the image. She believes that these three components strike a balance between disorganization and form. In Huang‘s works, the structure of an image is significant. For him, painting means first space, then materials. Space is the appearance of the materials. They are a unity of opposites. The surface is real existence while the depth is illusionary. Gonghong Huang also tries in his paintings to achieve a good balance between them, to make the painting Itself visually interesting, and thus let painting follow its own language and become a real two-dimensional art.

By exploring the most diverse of disciplines, as just discussed in the cases of Wenger, who dealt with the dance of William Forsythe in her drawing, or of Hofstetter, who was inspired by the text of Cyrille Comnène to his artistic interventions, artists can stimulate spiritual and emotional areas which may expand experience, and connect to all fields of activity to which rhythm is innate. …

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Gonghong Huang
Untitled 154, 2012
oil on canvas, 215 x 380 cm

 

 

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