Oil on panel, used by Garrett Nagorzanski to propose a revitalisation of a Cuban film school, wins Eye Line 2024 commendation
Commended, Student
Garrett Nagorzanski
University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Dirubean Caustics explores a proposed revitalisation of an existing international film school in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Inspired by the harsh sunlight, warm palette and tropical wilderness enveloping the existing site, these panels reimagine the architectural vision behind the school. Nagorzanski chooses to use the medium of oil to maintain a distance between his ideation of the design and nailing its colours to the post.
For Wigglesworth, the mode of representation suggested layers of the past ‘reminding me of billboards that have been torn away to reveal the ads beneath it,’ while Kucharek found its volumes ‘sun-soaked, as if the oil painting itself is melting’. Ramstad too enjoyed the ‘confident use of colour for atmosphere Against the artist’s own claims, Chou felt ‘he’s captured the certainty of a building, which is not very common in student work, and I enjoy that.'