Spitalfields Public Art Programme Phase 2
Corporate art for a corporate setting-
site responsive sculptures:
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The urban agriculture however is unexpected:
site responsive sculptures:
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The urban agriculture however is unexpected:
Blood on Paper
@ V&A 15 April - 29 June 2008 link
An exhibition about the art of books. Some individual creations, , some mass produced pamphlets which excel in creativity of layout or form. An art gallery experience, it's not one to one with the viewer only with the creator- look don't touch, don't turn the page!
'From the troubling concept of a cut into organic material, a gash on the human body, he creates a powerful meditative structure'(Blood on Paper Pamphlet)
An exhibition about the art of books. Some individual creations, , some mass produced pamphlets which excel in creativity of layout or form. An art gallery experience, it's not one to one with the viewer only with the creator- look don't touch, don't turn the page!'Today images and texts are increasingly dematerialised and delivered electronically from the virtual world of the computer onto the screen..... the book is a physical object and an idea' (Blood on Paper Pamphlet)
The books which stood out to me include:
Anish Kapoor
'Wound'
'From the troubling concept of a cut into organic material, a gash on the human body, he creates a powerful meditative structure'(Blood on Paper Pamphlet)Cai Guo-Qiang
The Danger Book series- books which threaten to explode when opened
'a perpetual challenge to the reader to resist consummation by destruction'
(Blood on Paper Pamphlet)
The exhibit includes one of the bomb books and a video of the process
Anselm Kiefer
The Secret life of plants- 'recalls the outlines of constellations, the heavens and the plants. These represent the earths beginnings and the eternal process of transformation.'(Blood on Paper Pamphlet)
This book stands in the entrance of the exhibition, as tall as an adult and made from lead, its surface is textured and worked, it has presence as a sculpture that viewers seek to draw meaning from.
The Fourth Plinth
The Fourth Plinth is renouned for temporary & contemporary art in the presumed traditional Trafalgar square. The most recent commission is Thomas Schütte's Model for a Hotel 2007 wich was critisised as being a house for pigeons! The sulpture certainly stood out!
The 6 shortlisted artists for the next installation include:
Jeremy Deller
Tracey Emin
Antony Gormley
Anish Kapoor
Yinka Shonibare
Bob & Roberta Smith
Pregnant Alison Lapper on the Fourth Plinth (aug-sept 07):
(picture from http://www.artwords.co.uk/acatalog/art.html)
The 6 shortlisted artists for the next installation include:Jeremy Deller
Tracey Emin
Antony Gormley
Anish Kapoor
Yinka Shonibare
Bob & Roberta Smith
Pregnant Alison Lapper on the Fourth Plinth (aug-sept 07):
(picture from http://www.artwords.co.uk/acatalog/art.html)
Sunshine & the Southbank
'How lucky are we to live in London' is the general feeling associated to the southbank:
Just on a sunny day more people get to experience it!
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