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studio 1.1: Painting Over - 7 May 2010 to 17 May 2010 Current Exhibition |
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studio1.1 presents PAINTING OVER (A very brief survey of very contemporary painting) a short introduction to a three part painting show projected for 2011 Friday 7 - Monday 17 May 2010 Private view: Thursday 6 May 6 � 9 pm with DAVID BEN WHITE SARAH MCNULTY OLIVER BANCROFT ANDY PUTLAND ANDY JACKSON JAMES RYAN ROBERT RUSH DEBORAH GOUGH WILLIAM STEIN PAUL SAVAGE DAVID MICHEAUD ALEXANDER B�HLER GILL ORD MARCUS COPE DAVID SMALL KATE LYDDON �ANXIETY/ACCEPTANCE/TRANSCENDENCE� or �What to Do, What to Wear? What on Earth?� LOOK! (Painting for a Reason) thanks to Johnny Bristol/the Osmonds, no thanks to Boyzone. In 1967 Greenberg was already talking about the periodic death of painting - now it seems to have become paradigmatic; not to say parodic. It�s easy to string out the prepositions: what's painting up to? What's it for? What, to get serious about it, is there in it? Because maybe the last comprehensive formulation about the point of art came when Gautier decided art could exist for its own sake, �l'art pour l'art� (another preposition). And that was nearly 200 years ago. But at the point that line was taken, art floated free. It's survived, as Auden put it, 'in the valley of its saying' (it's the line after his famous statement that poetry makes nothing happen.) A very long time ago we lost the habit of wanting to ask any of those awkward questions. The history of art is viewed as a continuum, as if a canvas by Ellsworth Kelly and one by Titian and a fresco by Giotto were somehow replacements for each other. We hardly remember that splitting from any social purpose art has pursued its own course, maintaining an autonomy only briefly disturbed by a detour into the service of revolution (it didn't help enough); until, of course, it was co-opted by commerce. Art's a commodity, then. Anything else? 'I have nothing to say, and I am saying it', Cage famously said. Slightly less famously, and crucially, he went on 'And that is poetry as I know it.' We have isolated a small patch of contemporary painting, the one we're most familiar with and that means most to us. All the works have been made in the last few months. There's abstract, abstraction, and figuration. An opportunity at least to start thinking about any crisis and whether or not it�s over. No Soul for Sale - a Festival of Independents in the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern Friday 14 � Sunday 16 May 2010 "A free festival for all to celebrate Tate Modern�s 10th Birthday To celebrate Tate Modern�s 10th birthday, Tate is working with visionary curators Maurizio Cattelan, Cecilia Alemani and Massimiliano Gioni, who have invited 50 international independent art collectives to create projects in the Turbine Hall." http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/nosoulforsale/default.shtm http://www.nosoulforsale.com/index.php studio1.1 is very pleased to be presenting work by: JAY CLOTH MARCUS COPE WILL CRUICKSHANK CEES KRIJNEN KATE LYDDON WILLIAM STEIN JOHN SUMMERS JOHN WALLBANK CEES KRIJNEN (with his mother Greta Blok) will be performing �Nothing' in the Turbine Hall on Friday 14th May at 4:30pm |
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