Title -
Art:ATTACK
Curatorial concept -
The theme of art and artworks under attack is the curatorial concept. Research led me through many of the ‘shock works’ of our time, many artists seemingly motivated by works which will shock and generate column inches opposed to expressing aesthetic innovation. What I noticed through research is that many of these ‘shock works’ find themselves under attack, not by every person that dis-agrees with them but by a select few that choose to act.
Art has long served as one of our great civilising forces, as the culture of the elite we seem to retain composure around the works we witness in a white cube space. When works rile us we do not agree but simply move on to the next, with no action. I am allowing the public the opportunity to do what they wish with modern art in an exhibition entitled- Art:ATTACK.
The public are invited to make a very literal ‘attack’ on many of the biggest players in modern art. A white cube gallery space supplies tools of attack upon arrival, do visitors wish to use, containing artworks which have all made very high sums of money but could also questionably attack and devalue many of the respected values in art. Symbolic of the curatorial concept is the Monet piece included in the exhibition, a classic painting from a prolific practitioner, it is a piece which would stand out as being very different to the ‘shock works’. Upon research I found out drunks broke into the Musee D' Orsay in Paris and slashed Monet's painting leaving it with a four inch tear. The painting was later repaired but what I present is the torn version. It presents the question to any vistor, if a Monet piece can be destroyed what is there to respect in a bed? Surely a urinal is meant to be urinated in?
The artists have made their money, you can choose to be a raucous vandal and get away scot free. Promoting the anarchic atmosphere I plan to include the performance artist Alexander Brener shouting at the paintings, he is questioning the works, and the public in turn will question the works and also why he is shouting, contributing to a atmosphere of disorder and coas.
Do you follow as the title says and attack or does the superior aura of the white cube space prevail once again…
The theme of art and artworks under attack is the curatorial concept. Research led me through many of the ‘shock works’ of our time, many artists seemingly motivated by works which will shock and generate column inches opposed to expressing aesthetic innovation. What I noticed through research is that many of these ‘shock works’ find themselves under attack, not by every person that dis-agrees with them but by a select few that choose to act.
Art has long served as one of our great civilising forces, as the culture of the elite we seem to retain composure around the works we witness in a white cube space. When works rile us we do not agree but simply move on to the next, with no action. I am allowing the public the opportunity to do what they wish with modern art in an exhibition entitled- Art:ATTACK.
The public are invited to make a very literal ‘attack’ on many of the biggest players in modern art. A white cube gallery space supplies tools of attack upon arrival, do visitors wish to use, containing artworks which have all made very high sums of money but could also questionably attack and devalue many of the respected values in art. Symbolic of the curatorial concept is the Monet piece included in the exhibition, a classic painting from a prolific practitioner, it is a piece which would stand out as being very different to the ‘shock works’. Upon research I found out drunks broke into the Musee D' Orsay in Paris and slashed Monet's painting leaving it with a four inch tear. The painting was later repaired but what I present is the torn version. It presents the question to any vistor, if a Monet piece can be destroyed what is there to respect in a bed? Surely a urinal is meant to be urinated in?
The artists have made their money, you can choose to be a raucous vandal and get away scot free. Promoting the anarchic atmosphere I plan to include the performance artist Alexander Brener shouting at the paintings, he is questioning the works, and the public in turn will question the works and also why he is shouting, contributing to a atmosphere of disorder and coas.
Do you follow as the title says and attack or does the superior aura of the white cube space prevail once again…
Artworks included-
Art
Monet, Le pont d' Argenteuil(attacked), 1874.
under
Attack?
Duchamp, Fountain, 1917.
Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Dirty White Trash, 1998.
Tracey Emin, My Bed, 1998.
Marcus Harvey, Myra, 1998.
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