Systems Art

Neil Ferguson - 16000 Paintings as a Sequence

"The exhibition displays 16,000 small silhouette paintings produced under the same set of rules.
Each painting:
uses the same brush.
is the same size.
uses Ivory black watercolour paint.
is a complete silhouette.
has no gaps or spaces within the painted form.
is numbered.
is not titled.
cannot be repainted".

"The denial of artistic freedoms regarding choice of colour, shape of paper, tool of application, method of application seems to promote free possibilities for imagining that allows shifts of thought to investigate intrigue and influence. The tighter the rule, the greater scope for imagining takes place".

Whitechapel (n.d.) Systems Art [online] Available at: <http://systemsart.org/fergusontext.html> [Accessed 27th January 2012]