What refuses to fade are the indelible images Ceylan has
painted on the celluloid canvas.
Not exact matches
A cel, or
celluloid, is a transparent sheet
on which objects are drawn or
painted, used in the production of animated cartoons.
His work is also strongly influenced by the Hollywood film industry: the mountain in his Mountain Series is a play
on the Paramount Pictures logo; Large Trademark with Eight Spotlights (1962) depicts the 20th Century Fox logo, while the dimensions of this work are reminiscent of a movie screen; in his
painting The End (1991) these two words, which comprised the final shot in all black - and - white films, are surrounded by scratches and streaks reminiscent of damaged
celluloid.
It was a Futura 2000 style scrape, Because we had the «
Celluloid» covers, The Phase2, The Futura, there were those four records and it's Futura standing by one of his
paintings with a scrape
on it and we used to look at it and wonder how he'd done that, so I tried it... Just layered the
paint down, scraped it and that was the first real abstract
painting that I had done.
The comparative positioning of the two artists»
paintings at Loretta Howard Gallery inadvertently recalls the way contemporary modernism used to be taught using «slide trays» filled with 35m
celluloid images projected images side - by - side
on a large screen.
Before picking up a camera, Tambellini physically worked
on the film strip, treating the emulsion with chemicals,
paint, ink and stencils, slicing and scraping the
celluloid, and dynamically intercutting material from industrial films, newsreels and broadcast television.
Untitled (Amber)(2012) and Untitled (Green)(2012) are diminutive cardboard constructions mounted
on graphite - marked notepaper,
painted with silver leaf to form tiny, imperfect monuments complete with
celluloid «windows» that refer to the resin sculptures.