Painting and Drawing Class led by visiting artist in residence Charbel Ackermann, Fall 2008
This website is designed to assist with the running of the class.
It features syllabus, weekly updates, class information, links to images and selected reproductions of work of artists to be discussed during regular slide shows, as well as texts for discussion.
Brief Info on Charbel Ackermann
Charbel is a Swiss born artist who works and lives in London. His work involves drawing, painting, installation and digital media, and deals with spatial visions, urban topography, geographies, and imaginary and real architecture and landscapes.
In the US he has shown at The Drawing Center in New York, the Pasadena Museum of California Art etc. He is a graduate of SFAI and Goldsmiths College London.
Student projects will be at the center of his class. Participants will reflect on the role in their work of the “real” which may be sampled/collected or otherwise referred to or documented. This will be contrasted to the place the gestural, constructed or narrated artefact has in their practice, in the form painting, drawing, sculpture etc. The aim of the class is to make individual and collaborative work while members clarify their artistic preoccupations. Students will be asked to read selected texts and to participate in regular slide shows featuring the work of contemporary artists mainly from Britain and Europe.
