The title VISIBLE ISSUES started at Bath Academy of Art with…
EARTH, AIR, FIRE & WATER
Later it came to include…
MOTION, TIME & DISTRIBUTION.
Art and special-effects came together in…
MASS, TIME & SPEED, DENSITY & PROXIMITY
… then came the invisible issues, ‘thought objects’ like…
IMAGE, SELF & OTHER
In all these categories, there was no single unique significance which was not relative to some other equally arbitrary starting point.
C.V. ADRIAN WALTON-SMITH
1954 Born Watford, England
1976 BATH ACADEMY of ART, Studied sculpture
1979 ‘DE ATELIERS’, Studied Fine Art at de Ateliers with Jan Dibbets, Carel Visser,
Wessel Couzijn, Toon Verhoef, Marlene Dumas, Leo Vroegindeweij and others
1983 – 1990 STAGE DESIGNER for TONEEL GROEP GLOBE,
1983 immersive stage design for “CARAMBOLE” directed by Kees Hulst
1984 TONEEL GROEP GLOBE, projected stage design using projections & film for
“NJOE” directed by Kees Hulst
1990 ‘NOT HELEN’ Live performance in collaboration with Mark Glynne,
Gallery Christian Hannusek, Frankfurt
1990 – onwards, PHYSICAL-EFFECTS DIRECTOR
Physical-effects direction, working internationally on car commercials,
cosmetics, alcohol. Clients include Jaguar, Ford, Dior, Heineken etc. Physical
phenomena for high-speed film – fire, product collisions, explosions, vapour,
macro worlds, etc.
After ‘ATELIERS ’63’ in Haarlem,
(from 1990 up to today)
worked as physical special-effects director for commercials,
with own studio.. (https://vizspecialeffects.nl)
2010 – onwards VORTEX art works – commences working with the temporary,
dynamic forms created by movement
2012 NIEUWMARKT ATELIERS, open atelier, Oudeschans, Amsterdam
2016 January
Interview “STRATEN van AMSTERDAM”, AT5
2016 ‘WHITE VORTEX’ project design for the Light Festival
(https://vizspecialeffects.nl/light/)
2017 ‘A THOUSAND TIMES’ proposal, Light Festival
‘DE GRENS’ proposal, Van Lanschot kunstprijs
2018 BOGOTÁ, group exhibition
‘SCATTER PIECE’, dust sculpture
2018 September
PHYSICAL-EFFECTS DIRECTION, CHANEL ‘Textures”’, commercial Paris
2019 BOGOTÁ,
‘The IMAGE’ & ‘THREE OAKS’,
Installation: kinetic sculpture, photo piece, projection and hole sculpture
2020 DE STELLING van AMSTERDAM
‘VORTEX WORKINGS’ – four works, dynamic sculptural forms
2021 DE STELLING van AMSTERDAM
‘MY FRIEND is DEAD’ (Photography installation)
2021 November
PHYSICAL-EFFECTS DIRECTION, DIOR perfume, slow-motion filming Paris
2022 March
KAALSTAART, travelling exhibition Breda, Arnhem, Utrecht, Amsterdam
“Three Oaks”
2022 STELLING van AMSTERDAM
‘WATER, FIRE, SOUND’, solo, projected sculptures
2023 April
KAALSTAART, travelling exhibition through many locations in the Netherlands.
First exposition of the Cords
2023 May
PHYSICAL-EFFECTS DIRECTION, ARMANI textures, slow-motion physical effects,
Paris
2023 June
Member ARTI et AMICITIAE artist’s society
2023 July
‘BEHIND the WORD’, begins collaboration with Ensemble Orochi
2023 September
Collaboration with sound artist Mihallis Shammas on video installation
“BEHIND the BEAST’
‘DAARGINDS’ – solo exhibition, ‘FIVE CORDS and THREE PROJECTIONS’’
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