I had seen a picture of this exhibition before reading this article. I had noticed it and pondered a little, I noticed that it was surrounded by chandeliers and that it was very different. I remember it because I hadn't felt entirely comfortable.
I wonder why versaille. Maybe the Pompidou would have been better - what happens when you put art in an expected location, what happens when it's stumbled upon by accident. I'm sure I react quite differently depending on the location.
For me, I think I'm not particularly entranced by plasticy work or manga cartoons so I felt uncomfortable seeing this work in a setting which dictates that a reaction should happen. I'm not particularly keen on ornate crystal, gold etc either so my reaction is not one of sadness that Murakami's work is spoiling Versaille. If anything, for me I feel that yes, as one of the vox pops said, Louis was very fond of ornate overstatement and had he been brought up today he might well have loved modern art. I think the positioning for me highlights the surroundings in an unfavourable light. It reduces them to simply being a space full of stuff, all stuff is equal. Today I would prefer an empty room with a nice wooden floor.
If I found Takashi's work in an unexpected urban setting then it is quite probably that i'd have a very different reaction and that maybe I'd like it very much.
So how has it changed - more subtle? It's constantly changing, there are always new 'big fish'. The punk/diy scene is always changing slightly and coming back in different ways. It's surely just another example of the commercialisation of radical youth.
British Art Show
freize saatchi turner prize
nottingham contemporary 5 yearly
brit art boom? anything new or exciting?
how can a group be called 'young' for so long?
audience was missing - still? apparently not.
changed the galleries - squatting. diy still going, needs to be especially with conservative cuts.
'get off yr arse and do something'
hearing some new sound and realising you're past it... am i past it already?... what's changed?
leave college, get a gallery, do a show...
what's my desire? is it to 'make art' or 'be famous' make work & make a living preferable!
i don't trust artists who've got more than two assistants...
if yr not having as much fun as a 5 yr old then your doing something wrong!
who's replacing saatchi? i've never been to saatchi gallery! commercial, shiny - it's past it!
golden generation? yeah. but it's all still there, it's an inherant part of people.
yba - they've become the convention
more multi media - music certainly - turner prize...
what do i find interesting? Wire music!!!! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x338l http://wiredlab.org/ really, i find this amazing and lovely and i remember walking with my grandad, god rest his soul, and asking him what the strange noise was, we looked up at the sky a long time.
surely contemporary art is always taken seriously but by the time we notice it's become normal.
conrad shawcross? dissused tram tunnel? www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/oct/11/conrad-shawcross-interview-rachel-cooke i like this... i think i'm liking quite a lot of more industrial kinda stuff right now, i hardly ever wax lyrical about highly decorative stuff do i?
what IS a good painting? I can't tell, some are ment to be bad, how am i to tell?
current art climate: much more unstable and performative - and or audience involvement? From what i saw at the arnolfini we're becoming experience faciliators.
gillian wearing
sarah lucas
chapmans
'never been a serious article written about the art, only the money'
martin creed,
david shrigley
is it too shallow at the moment
john latham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Latham_(artist)
maybe they're just not in the galleries.
wolfgan tilmans http://tillmans.co.uk/
jeremy deller http://www.jeremydeller.org/
steve macqueen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McQueen_(artist)
tom ats
phil commins
slow burning - more to say - less shock then?
'complexify' not about entertaining
think deeper, look harder
minimal
paying more attention
a slash - brain matter - still shocking and yet... subtle - like the autopsy string in the arnolfini gallery.
post punk
emily wardel
spartacus chetwynd - "In its improvised and anti-professionalised fashion, her work introduces a measure of the carnivalesque into everyday life." i love what she says.
nathanial mellors
elizabeth price
charles avery
roger hyons
pheoby unwen
luke fowler the subject is sound, and visual imagery takes second place.
michael fullerton the political nuances of art and the aesthetics of persuasion
brian griffiths upported by ropes it suggests a tent and a theatre backdrop, a place of refuge and a moment of illusion. Decorated with embroidered patches bearing the names of various international destinations, it seems to belong to an old-fashioned travelling fair or carnival, ready to be rolled up and shipped onwards as soon as it has worked its doubtful magic.
roger hiorns - copper sulphate
anja Kirschner and David Panos - The Last Days of Jack Sheppard tells the story of an 18th-century thief who gained notoriety after a series of spectacular escapes from prison. - i wonder if that's the same as Sam Hall, the folk song. I know the name was changed at one point...
very - exciting - http://www.britishartshow.co.uk/artists/
this, like fashion, is an everlasting game. There is always a current debate and new artists. The new generation are always accused of having nothing to say.
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