Melvyn Poore
Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein
Melvyn Poore is a visual artist and musician living in Lübeck.
MessageMelvyn Poore ist bildender Künstler und Musiker. Als Student analysierte er Werke zeitgenössischer bildender Künstler und stellte Vergleiche zu Konzepten in der Musik zeitgenössischer Komponisten an. Seine Erfahrungen mit der Programmierung von Musiksoftware führten zur Schaffung digitaler Bilder. Ein prägendes Erlebnis war eine Aufführung von John Cages „HPSCHD“ im Jahr 1983 in Denton, Texas.
Die Verbindung von Musik und Bildkunst zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch seine gesamte Karriere, in der er in den Bereichen Theater, Oper, Mode, Tanz, Film, Video und in seinen eigenen Gemälden tätig ist.
Die digitalen Arbeiten sind das Ergebnis von Untersuchungen zur Rolle des Zufalls und der Unbestimmtheit im Alltag: Viele Elemente der Bilder entstehen durch zufällige Verfahren.
Die hier gezeigten analogen Arbeiten sind das Ergebnis spontaner, improvisatorischer Aktivität, eines explosiven Impulses, der nur einem einzigen Moment in der Zeit angehört; dennoch spielen sie eine Rolle in einem psychologischen Prozess, der in diesen Bildern seinen Abschluss findet.
Statement
I work in the analog and digital domains, making pictures which feed from the experience of both areas. Underlying much of my present work is an exploration of layering which - in analogue painting - is a centuries-old technique. In the digital domain, it is 'second-nature' and much more free, since it fits the structure of the medium so well and one can build in interactions between the layers.
In order to bring about surprises and challenges in my digital work I use the wide field of random functions. When something non-intentional occurs, it is subsumed into the work. It requires a change of direction, responding to new input. This is an important part of my working process - and my everday life!
So - often - I do not know how a work will turn out, but sometimes I do envisage a picture - or part of it - in advance. I hone my learning process by setting myself specific problems, which inevitably turn into a series of solutions. Take a theme and subject it to many variations. I have a number of ongoing series which are in different collections in my gallery (https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/mp-art).
Whilst setting myself technical exercises, I discovered a fascination with the physical materials and the processes that I use to make marks on a surface. There are so many factors involved: color, viscosity, transparency, fluidity of the paint; length, thickness, profile, flexibility and speed of the brush; size and qualities of the painting surface; the source and range of light; the position of my body in relation to the surface. All of these have been investigated by many artists, long ago, but the materials keep changing as our technology changes; there are always new things to find out and unrealised pictures to discover. There are always old habits to identify, whose absence would make my way free again. This is all part of my inward journeying, to explore relationships between all those factors mentioned above - and more! I experience these areas expanding all the time - which is, of course, only another way to say that I am developing the ability to see and use them. This is a Reason To Do Art!
all images © Melvyn Poore