Amazing Art

These are some photos of my recent exhibition called "Amazing Art". This was a light hearted exhibition that played with the conventions of the art gallery by encouraging visitors to deface the art and put up their own. It looked at themes of narcissism by looking at self portraiture and poked fun at the pretensions of the art establishment using randomly assigned accompanying text placed next to contributors work. These texts used highfalutin language whilst being completely devoid of meaning. The these are below and disturbingly like the summery I have just written.

   
Simplistic yet charming this picture is thought to be based upon a childhood memory. The pastoral setting leads to a sense of sentimentality and naïve innocence but it is shot through with contemporary references. Swine flue, bird flue and foot and mouth these recent epidemics have undermined our fond memories of the countryside that we may have gained in early life. This complex subject comes to life in the artists

This work is notable in that it exists in a space between abstract and figurative imagery. It contains a mature rectangular vocabulary, which serves to emphasize logic and clarity whilst confusing objectivity. The onlooker is drawn into an unlikely space, which confuses sensibilities and leads us to questioning what is it we do when we look.

Every now and then, with a bit of luck, an artist will produce an exceptional work that demands attention. This is the case with this new work. The subtle use of light gives the piece a richness that equals any of the Dutch old masters.

The terms “visual language” or “vocabulary” are often used to help describe the distinct characteristics of an artists practice. This sort of language is blown away by the irreverent joy of this new work. However this does not damage the ambiguity of the questions posed. The artist questions, “what is this?” at the most basic level.

Creative, Playful and inventive. This inspired work reveals new ways of looking at something familiar. The artist

This work is addressing the artist

In this work opaque references to nature are made in order to create images with a wide range of associations. This work creates a solitary meditative experience that aims to launch an attack on the viewers

Some commentators have noted the numbing repetition and banality of this work however such viewer perhaps miss the powerful psudosexual paradoxes in tone and scale that distinguished this work as a landmark in the artists career.

This work questions the notions of visual veracity and reliability by appearing of a far lower quality than the surrounding artwork however sustained observation reveal this to be a fallacy. This surprising revelation redeems the lack of authority in the image itself.

Superficially this work may appear abstract however in fact it is an attempt to dissect, reorganize and reconstruct the very matter of reality however the key thing about this work is it

This work staunchly refuses to reveal any psychological insights into the artist. The glacial flat surfaces of the work which displays a manipulated prearranged reality that could as easily be a stand in for a blank canvas or an empty stare yet this is all part of the works perplexing hold on the audience.

Here we see the subject transfigured in space. The use of line and gesture bring to the fore ideas of repression. The subconscious undercurrents of this work lie firmly in the foreground detail, which give the piece a certain top-heavy metaphysical structure.

This piece displays a totally new and radical attitude to realism, or rather to the conception of reality itself. A viewer with an open mind and a well developed antennae for life will perceive an uncommonly clear mirror to contemporary problems with a use of material that is both traditional and unexpected.

In this work the artist has explored notions of consumerism, taste and banality, whilst contrasting them with childhood and sexuality. The surface is meticulously fabricated and draws on a variety of objects and images from American consumer culture to create surreal combinations of everyday objects. In this complex and multi-layered composition the artist strives to make us re-examine the structure and interplay culture has built around us.

The viewer in this work is faced with a rather unsettling proposition. Although it is often seen as an artist job to conquer territory that has hitherto been taboo. This artist has dredged the lowest of the low. Going to lengths to explore the strange, the freakish, the abnormal diving to the very deepest limits of humour and taste to give a refreshing and surprisingly moral new face to individuality.

This work is an investigation of the way our fantasies and desires are transferred onto ordinary artefacts. The surface gleams seductively. The neat lines summon up images of neatly tended lawns and preened hedges. The composition is sustained in a state of ultimate perfection. A perfection that in many ways only denotes an air of falsehood.

This abstract work attempts to convey spiritual and emotional values simply through the arrangement of colour and shape. There are some remnants of representation however this is not the true level of the form. The true content lies beyond the artwork itself. It lies between the onlooker and the surface of the work in the subtle social nuances that are evoked within this space.

Although it make no reference to the outside world, this work summons up the exciting rhythms of contemporary life, however underlying the dynamism of the works and the immediate aesthetic there is a strong feeling of revulsion at the falseness of materialism in our modern society. This art is freed from the capitalist mantra and appears to offer a solution to the spiritual crises that this age is embroiled in.

This work uses common, functional images to allow the artists thematization of semantic congruities and incongruities to be seen as a reflection of the problems, which the relations between concept and presentation pose. The artwork pushes forth the pluralistic anti- and post-modernist view of creative process.’s conceptual clarity. The viewer is left in little doubt concerning the thematic territory they are being led into. The argument the images form simply becomes more seductive and convincing as they become more involved with the work.

Using a variety of strategies to represent what one commenter described as “the anguish of contemporary life.” we see the artist evoke aggression, vulnerability or both in a powerful and uncompromising work. It is refreshing to see a work as an emotionally charged as this in an art world flooded by empty gesture.