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GEORGE BARBER

17/10/10 13:49
George Barber is the other artist I am exhibiting alongside at the DCA. He is more commonly regarded as a British Scratch Video artist, and his early works demonstrate his cut and paste skills in fusing dance music and appropriated TV footage to great skill. It is however his more experimental works which I am drawn to, early processing hardware and suitiably punk / glitch before digital aesthetics, enable George to present abstract works again fused with sound, capable of twisting the medium of video as it appears pliable like paint on the screen.





George currently teaches at the School of Creative Arts in London and is involved with the video organisation LUX.





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HOMAGE TO A HOMAGE

14/10/10 11:27


HOMAGE TO A HOMAGE
Looped video monitor. Scale 1:10. 480X480
2010


Throughout the 1950s Josef Albers had created the works in his Homage to the Square series in sizes ranging from 16 x 16 inches to 40 x 40 inches. When asked by a leading critic on a visit to his Connecticut studio - ‘Professor Albers, in 1962 you suddenly began to work in the size of 48 x 48, and I wondered if this was your reaction as a European to the vaster scale of life in America or in fact to the American attempt to conquer space and reach larger dimensions?’ Albers looked at him and said ‘young man that was the year we got a bigger station wagon.’





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