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DIVISION, DIVERSITY AND PAPERING OVER THE CRACKS

No matter what selection committees deem to be the representative art of the day to hang or be installed in a Biennale pavilion, there is no guarantee that they have ‘got it right’ or that the artist/exhibit will even be remembered once the exhibit is over let alone become a beacon of cultural representation – unless a book is written about it.  What is more likely is that being hung as the representative artist will be forever emblematic of a time, a place and art thinking that seeks to draw artificial battle lines.

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MYTH, HYPERBOLE, THE CULTURE WARRIOR AND THE THREE METRE FIVE YEAR OLD

If you don’t want this culture warrior father and his precocious five year old turning up at your next opening you’d better either consult him and his progeny first so that you’re all on the same page artwise or gird your art loins in preparation for the trial in the court of public opinion.

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THE DEATH OF ART VIA SOCIAL MEDIA

…….the plethora of social media sites offering lessons in Abstract painting [with guaranteed success]. Learn to paint like Pollock, or de Kooning, or Picasso or Hoffman in six easy lessons and take on the art world.

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AS A SELF-CONFESSED ART [AND GRAMMAR] NAZI I CAN ONLY BE APPALLED AT THE DEPTH OF COMMUNITY INDIFFERENCE TO LANGUAGE.

Using language may never be an acceptable way of defining anything and when the audience for a work of art is so poorly equipped in terms not only of language but in coming to terms with their own emotional of intellectual capacity to respond to a work of art without resorting to deconstruction of meaning and semiotics, then the every-increasing divide between artists and their public will only grow wider.

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