Birthplace Series: The Staatliches Bauhaus of Weimar

James Scott Brooks

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The Birthplace series of artworks takes as its starting point the place of birth of specific figures and moments, within historic and contemporary society, that have had a positive or negative relationship to the development of abstraction. Utilising maps and aerial views of each location of birth, the artist James Scott Brooks, responds to the cartography of that area through a symbolic and aesthetic selection process of particular buildings and landmarks. The series is an… Read more
  • Dimension

    H 26.7 x W 26.7 cm framed

  • Materials

    Gouache and pencil on archival watercolour paper

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James Scott Brooks

James Brooks' practice uses radio, film, television and paper–based media sources of varying cultural status, as starting points to make works within drawing, print, audio and video. In works such as 'Spaces of Cerebral Exchange' among others, Brooks examines how the utopian beliefs and aspirations of modernism are challenged, altered or subsumed by our present information age. This critique of modernism is implied in a series of allegories that adopt the language of late modernism. The work also recognises the futility in replacing one set of utopian beliefs with another, and questions the limits of the present information age, in particular our ability to access and transfer information freely.

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