Part of any gallery ritual is the explanation provided. The necessity to explain in objective terms is all-pervasive and often becomes the be-all and end-all of looking at a work of art.
Opinion
THE TEMPLE OF ART
I guess in the end it comes down to just which selfie is going to be important enough to be remembered, collected, bought and sold. The odds would bear comparison with buying the winning lottery ticket and the prospect of shared hope such a win engenders. Perhaps that is the message of contemporary art. Rather than shared belief it is the shared hope of discovery that drives the creative process.
DEATH AND RESURRECTION OR THE NATURAL PROCESSES OF ATROPHIC ENTROPY
Recently I installed two tall wooden sculptures outside a gallery against a backdrop of endless rows of grape vines. They were there for the duration of an exhibition - a matter of six weeks. They didn’t survive. Oriented east-west to emulate the ancient stone...
TO TELL OR NOT TO TELL – THAT IS THE QUESTION
ou are the artist, the creator, and it is your own ego that is being satisfied. It is rewarding if others understand your aim but it is never your duty to explain it…
BEAUTY OR THE LACKING OF IT
Every time I hear that old chestnut of a cliché that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I am left wondering.
DECADENCE – THE ART OF THE RAT RACE
Can we say that contemporary art has stopped moving forward and is essentially moribund and reeking of turpitude? Perhaps. As a society we have found a way of having all styles, ideas and histories running simultaneously. There is no past and no present.