{"id":371,"date":"2010-09-01T16:38:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T16:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/2010\/09\/01\/2010-open-prize\/"},"modified":"2010-09-01T16:38:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T16:38:01","slug":"2010-open-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/2010\/09\/01\/2010-open-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Open Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jasmina Metwaly, the winner of the 2010 Open Prize for video painting, says of her work: \u2018It allows me to be in control, but I also lose control over the medium.\u2019 The remark is characteristic of video painting, which differs in several ways from conventional video art. The \u2018canvas\u2019 for this kind of painting is a projector or a video screen, and the painting is determined by the camera view, which is from a fixed point. No editing or artistic manipulation is allowed, and there is no soundtrack. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The video painting movement only began in 2001, in response to Hilary Lawson\u2019s novel theory of \u2018closure\u2019 and \u2018openness\u2019. Lawson, a documentary maker, was frustrated by the limitations of his work. Thought and language, in Lawson\u2019s view, played the disastrous role of closing the world\u2019s openness. He made it his task in his early experiments to avoid meaning. Narrative remains foreign to video painting: its goal is to embrace the openness of visual experience, which requires the self-restraint of the artist. In Closure<\/em>, Lawson expressed a sense that \u2018we find ourselves in a world without certainties; without a fixed framework of belief; without truth\u2019. Usual forms of description come up short so long as we think of \u2018the world as a something which itself consists of things that might be described\u2019.<\/p>\n


\u2018Elevator\u2019 by Michael Lightborne, Open Prize 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

So video painting was born. The Open Gallery, which runs the prize, has provided a space for\u00a0this art form since 2006.\u00a0A number of exhibitions have followed. Metwaly\u2019s winning entry, Crucifiction<\/em>, shows three pylons in Sinai. The artist explains that \u2018This video does not manifest, does not directly oppose or comment\u2026 I withdraw myself from the context and wait.\u2019 <\/p>\n


Open Prize Exhibition 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n


Open Prize Exhibition 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you would like to find out more, visit www.opengallery.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Open Gallery<\/em>
375 City Road<\/em>
EC1V 1NB<\/em>
London<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jasmina Metwaly, the winner of the 2010 Open Prize for video painting, says of her work: \u2018It allows me to be in control, but I also lose control over the medium.’ The remark is characteristic of video painting, which differs in several ways from conventional video art. The \u2018canvas’ for this kind of painting is a projector or a video screen, and the painting is determined by the camera view, which is from a fixed point. No editing or artistic manipulation is allowed, and there is no soundtrack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}