this week mostly:
www.art-bin.co.uk
a genuinely thrilling event, not least because it was my first 'show', but because of all the mixed feelings people have about it, the potential for interesting discussion is unbounded and that. THAT is a good thing. and I really enjoyed the atmosphere of bafflement.
write write write.
Went to two small galleries near brick lane yesterday, both group shows with quite good stuff in. Notably a broom that could stand up on its own with a candle on its handle...and a very accomplished piece of embroidery depicting a woman giving another woman head. It had some quote in ancient greek on it too, which said something about valleys? Hmm...at this point I was more intrigued by the gregarious gentleman who was enthusiastically showing us round the show. There was also a room that was a toilet/utility area and that was called the subconscious, the man warned us that we had to stay outside of it. You never know quite how to react when an arty type makes a bold and baffling statement that requires you to respond somehow. I always feel like its a kind of test of creativity. How you respond = your level of wackiness. or wHackness. whatever, anyway there were some paintings in there two but an artist who I am interested in due to his pigheaded attitude to art. Like, 'I paint, i'm fucking good at it and that's all there is to say really' (he's not technically that good but his confidence is somewhat conveyed in his messy figurative paintings. They look like he's just feverishly having to get an image out.
i'm jealous of that.
the press release said the show was about lonliness, and the Buddhist philosophy of the raw emotion inherent in the isolated or lonely human being. nice ideas, not 100% sure if or how the work displayed really carried the theme, but we didn't stay long enough to mull it over because we'd only really gone in there to ask where a different gallery was.
the other gallery was showing a film but one of my old tutors, and it was really very good. He filmed a rural landscape over 24 hours (?) sped it up and really enhanced the colour saturation so that it looked like a nuclear holocaust (can I use that word here?) or apocolyptic, one of those hideous end of the world things. Also enjoyed by me and my companion was the special effect of an industrial plant in the distance just turning to dust and floating away. Trick of the eye-stylee. Yeah. the other films dealt with nature, ugly/beautiful, scary, imposing and overpowering forests and cities. yes.
too much information. seriously. deep breaths.
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