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art review critique of the inaugural exhibition at notice 171 deptford high st. London SE8 3NU
My friend and current ally in town found the words refreshing and boring when had to spill out about what she had just seen (as we sat down in the pub afterwards, she was soon to give birth and decided a well-deserved sit-down was in order). The two words mixed into the same sentence is her response to seeing these new pieces of what seems like at first glance simply displayed. The thought process however is required to view these pieces which has allowed the work to be made simply but disturbingly thought ridden deep.
Furthermore she added the artists showing the work unbelievably to her experience and made a refreshing change were approachable and gave her a brief explanation of the work. This helped ferment an understanding to what the work was about or how it was thought out. This revelation delighted her as she compared other shows her mind’s eye would flash by her right then. She could recall the ‘other’ ghastly shows and found this show prodded her in another way of seeing viewing presenting and thinking all rolled into one. She also noted the people, the type of people present.
Then she had to say boring. But I knew what she meant. Which is when I found myself saying I could connect to the work, it wasn’t that difficult to relate or understand, the use of the words to strike ‘a common language’ made sense in the state of art mania today.
You would get an answer that you understood rather than a whimsical answer that you could not understand.
You respected and appreciated the artwork for it’s simplicity rather than for it’s complexity.
A term referred to and used to describe a piece of work displayed as photographs of clocks that had stopped working dotted around London and above a map of London showing the route to travel to each clock at exactly the time displayed were each chosen carefully from ten past 11 in the morning to ten past 8 into the evening, a choeo-graphed map of London mapped out the time and distance it would take to reach each clock. Out of 173 the artist chose about 2 dozen clocks.
Map up what we don’t know. The sheer joy of it I know. Connective-art could be a new term to describe these pieces displayed, in it’s cool, sophisticated buy very humble and simple concoctions of timeline, personal connections and instructions to tell the onlooker how when and what they are looking at.
‘A leap of faith’ is how to view see and believe the work I am told and it still rings in my ear. And I was told it seemed the first doubter to doubt the plausibility of the project. But I was told the process behind this took a number of years, so he couldn’t be lying then? Even though the clocks have stopped time can still be reinacted forced back into the future, brought back alive and kicking. The documentation tells us the actual event happened, the drive took place in the evening but the documentation had to be done in the day to produce reliable clear evidence.
The title of the show pulled my imagination. A wasp is a symbolic sign to represent the devil or an evil force and for it to be killed by magic comes to represent a cleaning agent that can wipe out this evil force, so because of the title I found it very very illuminating.
Initially the clock doc travel piece to me was the capturing piece however after some weeks post show I think back fondly to the singing musical wharf tower dj pumping musical canary wharf that shifted from being a timeless piece of architectural desire piercing the skyline representing another huge corporate office block had then come alive, a piercing hearbeat pulsating beatmiester beater to a beat beat waltz timer clockety clock thing because an artist found a tune that went with the beat, after posing the question can you find a song that would match the beat of the light at canary wharf?
Choice of art shows:
Whitechapel, Ugo Rondinone/David Adjaye. East Jeff Wall, Tate Modern. South Dan Flavin, Hayward – Retrospective. South A Wasp Killed by Magic, notice. South From South China to South London, Unit 2 gallery. East Gilbert & George, White Cube. East
Research:
Art Theory 1990 - 2000 New Edition, Harrison & Wood Dictionary of Critical Theory – Penguin Reference, David Macey Relational Aesthetics Nicolas Bourriaud Newspaper articles, Gilbert & George Magazines Time Out Culture and Art Television Programmes Press Release of show ‘A Wasp Killed by Magic’ Poster Hand out by ‘Notice’ gallery space
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As this page is basically the same as a website, it can be viewed by anyone.
It also seems that anyone can post on it as we do get some Spam posts but I delete them straight away.
art review critique of the inaugural exhibition at notice 171 deptford high st. London SE8 3NU
My friend and current ally in town found the words refreshing and boring when had to spill out about what she had just seen (as we sat down in the pub afterwards, she was soon to give birth and decided a well-deserved sit-down was in order).
The two words mixed into the same sentence is her response to seeing these new pieces of what seems like at first glance simply displayed. The thought process however is required to view these pieces which has allowed the work to be made simply but disturbingly thought ridden deep.
Furthermore she added the artists showing the work unbelievably to her experience and made a refreshing change were approachable and gave her a brief explanation of the work. This helped ferment an understanding to what the work was about or how it was thought out. This revelation delighted her as she compared other shows her mind’s eye would flash by her right then. She could recall the ‘other’ ghastly shows and found this show prodded her in another way of seeing viewing presenting and thinking all rolled into one. She also noted the people, the type of people present.
Then she had to say boring. But I knew what she meant.
Which is when I found myself saying I could connect to the work, it wasn’t that difficult to relate or understand, the use of the words to strike ‘a common language’ made sense in the state of art mania today.
You would get an answer that you understood rather than a whimsical answer that you could not understand.
You respected and appreciated the artwork for it’s simplicity rather than for it’s complexity.
A term referred to and used to describe a piece of work displayed as photographs of clocks that had stopped working dotted around London and above a map of London showing the route to travel to each clock at exactly the time displayed were each chosen carefully from ten past 11 in the morning to ten past 8 into the evening, a choeo-graphed map of London mapped out the time and distance it would take to reach each clock. Out of 173 the artist chose about 2 dozen clocks.
Map up what we don’t know. The sheer joy of it I know. Connective-art could be a new term to describe these pieces displayed, in it’s cool, sophisticated buy very humble and simple concoctions of timeline, personal connections and instructions to tell the onlooker how when and what they are looking at.
‘A leap of faith’ is how to view see and believe the work I am told and it still rings in my ear. And I was told it seemed the first doubter to doubt the plausibility of the project. But I was told the process behind this took a number of years, so he couldn’t be lying then? Even though the clocks have stopped time can still be reinacted forced back into the future, brought back alive and kicking. The documentation tells us the actual event happened, the drive took place in the evening but the documentation had to be done in the day to produce reliable clear evidence.
The title of the show pulled my imagination. A wasp is a symbolic sign to represent the devil or an evil force and for it to be killed by magic comes to represent a cleaning agent that can wipe out this evil force, so because of the title I found it very very illuminating.
Initially the clock doc travel piece to me was the capturing piece however after some weeks post show I think back fondly to the singing musical wharf tower dj pumping musical canary wharf that shifted from being a timeless piece of architectural desire piercing the skyline representing another huge corporate office block had then come alive, a piercing hearbeat pulsating beatmiester beater to a beat beat waltz timer clockety clock thing because an artist found a tune that went with the beat, after posing the question can you find a song that would match the beat of the light at canary wharf?
Choice of art shows:
Whitechapel, Ugo Rondinone/David Adjaye. East
Jeff Wall, Tate Modern. South
Dan Flavin, Hayward – Retrospective. South
A Wasp Killed by Magic, notice. South
From South China to South London, Unit 2 gallery. East
Gilbert & George, White Cube. East
Research:
Art Theory 1990 - 2000 New Edition, Harrison & Wood
Dictionary of Critical Theory – Penguin Reference, David Macey
Relational Aesthetics Nicolas Bourriaud
Newspaper articles, Gilbert & George
Magazines
Time Out
Culture and Art Television Programmes
Press Release of show ‘A Wasp Killed by Magic’
Poster Hand out by ‘Notice’ gallery space
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