‘The worst art exhibition in Britain’
With a broom propped up against a wall and pieces of wood strewn across the floor, it looks like the builders have clocked off or taken a lunch break.
But thr [sic] scene is actually a display in a gallery and some angry punters have branded it “the worst art exhibition in Britain”.
- ‘Punters call art show “the worst art exhibition in Britain”.’ The Daily Mirror, 6 May 2010, <http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/05/06/punters-call-art-show-the-worst-art-exhibition-in-britain-115875-22237467/>
AW: What this article nowhere acknowledges, however, is that these mundane objects by Susan Collis at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham are actually painstakingly produced trompe l’oeil sculptures made of precious materials to mimic rubbish. See: http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/programme/current/event/364/since_i_fell_for_you/
I haven’t it so I can’t pass comment on the quality of the exhibition, but an article that brands a show ‘the worst art exhibition in Britain’ really needs to give some notion of what it is all about, instead of entirely misleading the reader as to the nature of the art works on display. I suspect that the author of this article did so little research that (s)he did not even realise that the sculptures were not what they at first seemed to be.
