RecliningFigure.com ©Stephen Rumney 2004
This 1970's dental chair is part of Rumney's groundbreaking Consumer Realism series, where found objects are taken out of context of the real world and placed in the suspended white space of the gallery. This piece is inspired by the sculptor Henry Moore, whose abstract figurative work deconstructs the human form into elegant amorphous shapes. The artwork exists as a gallery piece and as part of Rumney's Domain Art web installation series at ReclingFigure.com
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BadHairDecade.com (For Print: High Res) ©Stephen Rumney 2004
ARTIST QUOTE: "This artwork is a homage to the decade we'd all rather forget... the 1970's. During this era hairdressers and fashion stylists set the universal standard for kitsch and bad taste. The mood of the time was no better encapsulated than in the photos used on pop records. The photos used in this artwork are taken from 1970's record covers.
Hours, if not seconds, were spent by stylists preparing these unwitting souls for their record cover photoshoots. Some were performing cruel experiments with their electric tongs and curlers while others were just following the orders of salon managers, subjecting the stars to barbaric attacks with combs, scissors and hairspray. Flick backs and large waves were specialites of the hair stylists who we now believe were part of a large international conspiracy.
There has been much debate that hairdressers, along with the a secret group of highly trained fashion designers were working together to undermine the integrity of western culture by covertly transforming westerners into the laughing stock of the planet. This artwork records the hairstyle attrocities commited between 1970 and 1979... less we ever forget."
'BadHairDecade.com' is part of Stephen Rumney's 'Domain Art' series.
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OrangeCanvas.com ((For Print: High Res) ©Stephen Rumney 2004
'OrangeCanvas.com' is part of Stephen Rumney's 'Domain Art' series. The artwork exists both as real canvas in a gallery and a virtual digital installation on the web.
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Is-It-Art.com (For Print: High Res) ©Stephen Rumney 2004
Is-It-Art.com, confronts the viewer with the question that has been raised in response to the avant guarde art movements of the 20th Century. As far back as 1917 when Duchamp, under the pseudonym Richard Mutt, submitted 'Fountain' (a men's urinal signed R.Mutt) to a New York exhibition selection comittee, art critics and the viewing public have raised this question time and time again. In Rumney's work, Is-It-Art.com, the debate materialises into an online art installation. This is the 4th piece in Rumney's cutting edge Art Globalisation series where web addresses become integrated into his work to create globally accessible works of art.
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TheFutureOfArt.com (For Web: Low Res) ©Stephen Rumney 2004
The FutureOfArt.com artwork in a gallery environment, here visualised in the atrium of Tate Modern
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www.MA – Modern Art (For Print: High Res) ©Stephen Rumney 2004
www.MA – The central piece in Stephen Rumney’s Domain Art series and the first piece of Modern Art that transcends the gallery to become a globally accessible art installation.
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TheFutureOfArt.com (For Print: High Res) ©Stephen Rumney 2004
The artist's visualisation of the FutureOfArt.com installation. TheFutureOfArt.com is the third work in Stephen Rumney's Domain Art series where the artwork extends beyond the boundary of the gallery and becomes globally accessible on the internet. TheFutureOfArt.com predicts a future of art in which artworks and artists are global brands.
The simplicity of the colours and squares can be seen as the building blocks for digital images. These building blocks are based on the pixels of a supersized digital image, the pixel being the digital unit by which all art can be seen on the world wide web. Rumney takes the pixel and blows it up to create monumental colour blocks that feature the bright palette characteristic of his work. here the artwork is seen visualised in the urban landscape.
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