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‘Introducing a disruptive element that twists or changes reality, without ever neglecting the aesthetic value, he creates a movement of attraction and repulsion, which poses the problem of the very existence of images and their meanings.’
AW: Ambitious much?
By creating a new world with new borders and conditions, each sculpture in this group exhibition embraces both the viewer and the object, using the relationship between the two to recreate the definitions of reality, invention, and representation.
AW: Yes, and this could be said about any work or art or visual encounter. Except most people would say ‘redefine’ rather than ‘recreate the definitions’.
‘The artists in DENIM explore the multifarious connotations of a material that began its life as a fabric for work clothes, but has become, over the past few decades, a material for fashion, both instant and high-end couture. For Rimanelli, however DENIM does not refer only to fashion but functions as psychic material, sheathing ideas that range from the erotic to the implicitly revolutionary.’
Press Release: DENIM, curated by David Rimanelli, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, February 2-March 12Read more: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/e/galleries/denim_press_release_info.pdf
AW: Why do I want to read this in the style of Brüno?
‘All four artists are involved in a constant process of de-constructing and re-constructing imagery and as the shows [sic] title suggests, something has changed, been transformed and some form of alchemy has occurred that has given gilded wings to the language of art to make it travel further.’
Press Release, ‘By Chromed Hooves It Travels Now’, The Russian Club, 15.1.10 – 31.1.10
Read more: http://www.othercriteria.com/blog/?tag=paul-hosking
AW: Ha, ha , ha. Seriously guys?! (smirk) Ha, ha, ha, ha. ‘gilded wings to the language of art’! Hee, hee, hee, ha, ha (snort).
BAROCK - Art, Science, Faith and Technology in Contemporary Age
Museum Madre, Naples, 13 December 2009 – 5 April 2010
http://www.museomadre.it/mostre_show.cfm?id=73
That’s all Folks ! The endless clash between Reason and Destiny
Stadshallen, Bruges, 11 December 2009 – 17 January 2010
http://thatsallfolks.aeroplastics.net/
AW: While the ‘Barock’ pun has been used since at least the 1970s (see bands like Wishbone Ash), and is remarkably lame, the exhibition’s aim to explore ‘the similitudes between the cultural themes that are representative of the beginning of the new century and those that made the visual imagination of the Baroque Age so powerful and grandiose’ is quite sensible and certainly more interesting than Tate Modern’s rather predictable comparison of Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst (http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/poplife/).
The award, then, for ridiculous exhibition title goes to the Stadshallen’s ‘That’s all Folks !’, especially for its subtitle ‘The endless clash between Reason and Destiny’, which reminds us of the title of Jake Chapman’s ‘novel’ (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Marriage-Reason-Squalor-Jake-Chapman/dp/0955862000).
The exhibition also receives Art Wank props for its 700 word press release that is full of grandiose claims for the show raising ‘questions about the human condition, and the capacity of the individual to take control of his and everyone else’s destiny and that of the planet’, without actually naming any artists or art works.
