Artist Connection: Ivan Galuzin & Studio: Aluminium Cut-outs Inspiration & Development

• Scrolling through Instagram, I saw a piece by an artist Ivan Galuzin which featured the concept of the void, and it inspired me to push this void concept even further with my own work.
• With my aluminium sculptural piece, I could find the cut-outs and place them in the spaces that there was a shadow underneath. 

Further research into Ivan Galuzin

Ivan Galuzin, (from left to right: Sick Skin, Anthracite Skin and Hubba Bubba Skin). 

• "Ivan Galuzin’s artistic practice takes shape through media such as painting, sculpture, installation and video. The canvases had been covered with a layer of industrial two-component paint that created plastic-like and monochrome surfaces in pink, yellow and black. The intense stink of chemicals from the two-component paint triggered strong somatic reactions amongst viewers, plus a sense of decay that soon manifested itself in the paintings’ surfaces: they slowly but surely fractured and started flaking off like dead skin, like a painterly equivalent to the body’s inevitable decay.  The extreme process unfolding in these paintings can be situated in both a historical and a contemporary conceptualization of ‘abstraction as destruction’." Information source: http://www.nna-stavanger.no/en/ivan-galuzin/ 

• The three paintings above titled Sick Skin, Anthracite Skin and Hubba Bubba Skin, are positioned in order of 'void'. On the farthest left we see many more cracks and voids in the canvas, and the process of this decay is clear due to curatorial choice. The paintings exude textural detail, and their individual monochrome representation is a great choice to allow the viewer to clearly see the details within. 
• This kind of work is very inspiring for me as I love the connection with materiality here - the viewer can physically see the paint peeling off the canvas to reveal what's hidden behind it. The void it leaves is almost as interesting as the cracks and the process. 

Further work after Inspiration:

First I tried the cut outs underneath the aluminium:

• This looked a bit forced, or crunched up, too close together

Reflections:

• Details within the materials, or the voids?? 
• I love the way this looks, with the aluminium as though it has fallen off into fragments. 
• This could be further worked on by hanging the individual fragments and suspending them in the air - like Cornelia Parker's piece.