Julie Mehretu – Psychogeographic paintings
Sunday, 18 December 2005
Babel Unleased – Julie Mehretu
Check out the complex layered schematics of Julie Mehretu’s drawings – there are references to architecture, calligraphy and her personal imaginary future-past landscapes. The results are detailed amorphous and energetic diagrams sometimes recalling visualisations of networked digital environments and the architecture of inner/cyber/hyperscapes.
From Metascape, a group exhibtion that featured visionary and real topographic explorations at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Summer 2003, comes this:
‘Julie Mehretu tackles the infrastructure of the constructed world, imploding and exploding fragments of the real and imagined into a frenzied maelstrom of information.
Mehretu refers to these vortexes of energy as “psychogeographic paintings”.
Also see Layering Chaos.
No. 1 — December 19th, 2005 at 10:05 pm
Nice catch, Paul. It reminds me of being in awe of Lebbeus Woods and his “architecture of anti-gravity”.
No. 2 — December 22nd, 2005 at 2:44 pm
this style is fast becoming a “movement.” julie mehretu’s work is gorgeous. the others in “layering chaos” are decent as well. the “master” of this style, to my mind, remains matthew ritchie however.
No. 3 — December 23rd, 2005 at 10:42 am
yeah Marius, Lebbeus Woods…. stunning work for sure, thanks for reminding us of these fantastic works
No. 4 — December 23rd, 2005 at 10:47 am
wow those matthew ritchie works are great too, somehow combining something very structural with the formlessness of automatic writing. Thanks for dropping by.