This weekend I attended the London Art Fair to have a look at some pretty exciting Modern British and Contemporary art.
My hands down favourite piece had to be by artistic duo Rob and Nick Carter called the Paint Pigment Photographs. The piece is composed of 25 photos of different coloured paint pigments thrown up in the air and captured at 1/1000th of a second against a bright blue cloudy sky.
The series is easily understood to be about the expression of colour, but what I also love about it is the different stages the work goes through to reach the end result. Kate Bryan of FAS London explained the complexity of the work - the idea that the piece starts off with paint references a more traditional medium, but it then transforms into a performance piece as it’s thrown into the air, becomes a sculpture for a brief moment, and ends up as a beautifully captured photograph.
Also noteworthy was the series Tokyo Lights by Marco Bettoni showcasing a collection of photos documenting different Japanese taxi cab lights.
