Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Last night

Me and Paul headed out to Hauser & Wirth Coppermill for the Private View of 'Simply Botiful' by Christoph Buchel. I have to say this is my favourite non mainstream gallery space in London. It's huge, the potential is enormous and I'm yet to be disappointed. (Ok, its only their 2nd exhibition in the space...!) This installation is at 1st site trivial, a mirror of an everyday scene, too familiar to be anything extraordinaire. However, as you walk through the installation and start discovering its hidden places one definitely becomes a intriguided and the thinking sparks start coming out! In the age of reality TV humans love more than ever to have an insight into other people's lives.



The artist's idea is to 'place the visitor in the brutally contradictory role of the intruder and voyeur'. There's a lot more to it. You can read the Press Release here.



For me this exhibition makes one think about what we, as humans, are creating and manifesting. Is this what we want? I ask...



If you are in London go and have a look. It's an experience. Think twice if you are clautrophobic & don't take precious clothes.






Le Gun in Brick Lane

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Art is not magic, ie a means by which the artist communicates or arouses his feelings in others, but a mirror in which they may become conscious of what their own feelings really are; its proper effect, in fact, is disenchanting.
Analogy is not identity.
Art is not enough.
(AUDEN).

I see this not as an illusion, but an illusion of an illusion.

8:35 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How did you manage to get tickets for a private view?

2:01 PM  

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