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Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts
Phone: (09) 577 0138 ext 7703
jeremy@tetuhi.org.nz
Jeremy Leatinu’u
Education Coordinator
Copies of the
world
Te Tuhi pre-visit lesson 1
Welcome to Copies of the world
During the next few lessons we will be exploring…
• Positive and negative space
• Copy vs original
• The art of casting
Image:http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/manhattan/uppermanhattan/hamiltonheights/ellisonmemorial/index.htm
Let’s start this lesson by exploring
“Postive and negative space”.
Image: http://www.oninteriordesign.com/on_interior_design/2009/10/negative-space-and-interior-design.html
If we think about a specific object say a chair or stool,
What is negative
Let’s take
and
a look…
positive space?
we can see there are positive and negative spaces
The stool has become white. This
tells us
thatisthis
is positive space.
Here
a stool…
Let’s turn the lights off to help
see where
the positive
Everything
around
the stooland
is black.
spaces
This negative
tells us that
this are.
is negative
space.
Image: http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/51127207/29_Rubber_Wood_Bar_Stool.html
To help remember I was told…
“for every positive shape there is a negative space surrounding it”.
Text: http://artinspired.pbworks.com/w/page/13819678/Positive%20and%20Negative%20Space
Let’s look at some complicated shapes and
find the positive and negative space.
Where
would
positive
space
be
thispicture…
picture?
The positive space
is the
car the
which
would
Let’s
mean
try another
theinspace
around
Image:http://izmostock.photoshelter.com/image/I0000XyuYtK5Paco
the car is the negative.
The
sky tower
surrounding
Looking
at thisand
night
time
buildings
become
positive
photograph,
wherethe
would
the
space
in space
this picture.
positive
be in this picture?
Which means the night sky is the
negative space.
Let’s try another picture…
Image: http://www.infonews.co.nz/news.cfm?id=58417
The
stationary
up the
Looking
at thismakes
photograph,
positive
space.
where would
the positive spaces
be in the picture?
Which
green
Let’s take a look at how negative
and means
positivethe
space
is table is the
used to makenegative
art… space.
Image:http://cctmdev2.londonmet.ac.uk/jem0338/coursework2/webpages/
The
sky
When
originally
showing
The dark
The
being
his
Artist
buildings
photograph
Can
photographs
thewith
you
Peter
negative,
find
and
Wegner
now
the
cars
Peter
now
makes
positive
are
takes
likes
appears
the
us
photographs
space
to
positive
look
display
asspace
at
in
thethe
both
space
positive
them
shape
ofphotographs?
tall
and
upside
space.
buildings
ofsky
down.
insky,
The
the
Peter’s
photographs
play
positive
and
negative
making
usthe
look
at
buildings
Showing
which
his
were
photographs
originally
which in
the
now
this
positive
looks
way
background
like
creates
appear
amay
tallinteresting
the
as
building
is
the
sky
negative
inmade
the
shapes
centre.
of
space.
sky.
and
things
wewith
not
have
seen
at
first.
changes the overall appearance of the landscape.
Image:
http://bagofbrains.com/2011/01/18/buildings-sky-peter-wegner/
http://blog.sfmoma.org/2012/01/collection-rotation33/
Rachel cast the inside space of
a room. In the front of the
sculpture you can see where
the fireplace would have been.
Rachel cast the space
underneath wooden seats.
Rachel cast the entire inside of
a house!
Here are a few more other artworks Rachel has made and cast in concrete.
Like
the
staircase
she
has
changed
the
negative
space
into
positive
space.
Rachel
is
interested
in
making
the
negative
space
become
positive
by
filling
it
With
Here
Once
this
is
Artist
aartwork
The
the
stair
Rachel
concrete
negative
case
Rachel
And
made
Whiteread
space
dries
how
was
from
did
Rachel
has
interested
creates
she
wood.
now
cast
then
become
The
large
in
an
pulls
space
stair
entire
and
away
the
case
surrounding
unusual
staircase?
positive
the
is the
wooden
sculptures
positive
space.
Let’s
thewalls
staircase.
take
space
that
and
a look…
look
She
Like
artist
Peter
Wegner
and
his
photographs,
Rachel
uses
negative
and
with concrete.
First
Rachel
covers
all
entry
points
with
wood
and
nails.
She
highlight
the
staircase,
space
around
leaving
the
like
space
the
athe
concrete
staircase
inside
around
cast
by
itbuildings
isfilling
of
the
thenegative
and
staircase
and
casting
houses.
space.
it in
positive
space
to create
art
that
makes
usof
see
things
that
we
may
Image: decided to
http://iansdesignthingy.wordpress.com/tag/architecture/page/3/
then fills the negative space withconcrete.
concretenot
andhave
waits
foreach
itatto
dry.
surrounding
step.
http://farticulate.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/21-december-2010-post-rachel-whiteread-selected-sculptures-interview/
seen
first.
http://www.image-identity.eu/artists_images_folder/england/rachel-whiteread
Image:http://www.artfund.org/artwork/8597/untitled-stairs
As we have seen, positive and negative space can
Let’s
on what
we
learnt
far…
playrecap
an important
part
in have
how we
makeso
art…
Positive and negative space
• are two completely different spaces. Positive
space being the physical shape of something and
the negative being the space around it.
• seem to change places as seen in John
Wegner’s photographs of the sky and city.
• can be made into a sculpture by casting the
negative space (or inside space), such as
Rachel’s concrete house.
In the next lesson we will explore
“Copy vs Original”.
End of lesson