Moments ago the always controversial Turner prize winner was announced, I definitely give Simon Starling an award for looking the part of an artist. Personally I was hoping Jim Lambie was going to snatch it, but then again this is coming from the point of view of a graphic designer who likes dizzy floors, bleeding birds (paint bleeding) and spray can messiness.
Monday, December 05, 2005
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yeah i personally rated lambie's art much more highly than i did of starling-just cos its so much more excitingly funky and his dizzy installations are so fucking amazing!ah i dunno y but it reminds me of afrodizziac i think it is?..by chris offili..now his pieces were really something.
Shivy, a fine observation :), Lambie's work also seems to capture the renascence of all things glitch and 80's and at the same time his bold use of shape and color reminds me of a 3d Patrick Caulfield collage. Still, visually a treat, but conceptually his lost me! Art can just be art and be pretty, dazzling and fun, but then again without a concept beyond scale and space what does he want the viewer to walk away with, cuz I know we cant take any of it home…
ko, u have a fair point my friend, but in my opinion sometimes concepts can travel and exceed further than the visual ideas you can recognise. If I take an example of one of my favourite artists: Anish Kapoor, one of his main objectives is to hit his viewers in their visceral, as in he believes its the feelings when you look at his art that count, rather than the artistic critic that one uses to judge paintings. Therefore these ideas would exceed space, scale and beauty.
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i meant critique btw. ;)
i gets excitin here http://www.tate.org.uk/contact/forums/turnerprize2005/forum.jsp?forum=49
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