Bizza 105 Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 ..but this takes the biscuit! Art exhibition shows bare gallery So what's going on here at Chapter in Cardiff? Well, nothing really... An artist has been given a grant to put on an exhibition consisting of nothing but an empty gallery. Simon Pope, 40, said the aim was to encourage people to walk around the empty rooms and discuss memories of other galleries. He said the work in Cardiff's Chapter Arts Centre divided opinion, but some visitors had "got a lot out of it". It has been funded by the Arts Council of Wales and the Sciart Wellcome Trust, a charity promoting art and science. Pope, who represented Wales at the Venice Biennale art festival in 2003, said: "You can simplify the context and ignore my intentions, but there are also people who know the work and see it in an informed way. "Obviously, there's a split reaction. There are those who love it and those who wonder why I've done it. "There are three distinct audiences: the people I've worked with in Chapter over the last few weeks, those who come to the event who know the wider context and don't trivialise the work, and people who have no idea what's in here. The exhibition, Gallery Space Recall, benefited from a portion of £50,000 funding given to Chapter by the Arts Council of Wales (ACW). "If you read the comments in the visitors' book, even people I wouldn't expect to understand the full context have got a lot out of it." The ACW said the money was for a 12-month programme of arts activity, of which Simon Pope's solo exhibition formed a "small part". "Chapter has proved to be a key venue in terms of delivering new, sometimes controversial, but always thought-provoking work to an exceptionally high standard," said the ACW. "The ACW welcomes the gallery's role in stimulating and promoting critical debate around the arts in Wales." A Chapter spokeswoman said: "We set agendas, we don't follow them". She said participants in the exhibition could perform "a seemingly impossible feat: summoning up remote spaces - through memory, body, speech and movement - reduplicating these spaces, so that they exist at two locations simultaneously." ! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6075450.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15347 Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Fine by me. I'm all for art that makes you think, or even just laugh at how ludicrous it is. Beats the "Ooh, it's another portrait of an aristocratic gentleman with a silly moustache/a peasant woman feeding the chickens/an obscure Dutch river" approach any day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathras 244 Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Not as good as the Urinal on its side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden McGroin 6456 Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Thats deeeeeeep man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Haha class well if idiots pay to see it cunning upper middle class men get rich by putting some sort of random ideology behind it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob W 0 Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 sounds like he's pushing the limits - probably didn't finish the REAL work in time........................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Fine by me. I'm all for art that makes you think, or even just laugh at how ludicrous it is. Beats the "Ooh, it's another portrait of an aristocratic gentleman with a silly moustache/a peasant woman feeding the chickens/an obscure Dutch river" approach any day. I'd rather look at something by one of the Dutch masters any day tbh although I appreciate what you're saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob W 0 Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Modern art normally has to be seen "in the flesh" to get any real appreciation I reckon Some is rubbish of course but you should make up your own mind - I'm sure Rembrandt had some awful days 'n aall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44109 Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Pile of wank tbh. What does he need a grant to show an empty gallery for? And why walk around an empty gallery to discuss previous displays? May as well do it on an internet message board and save the grant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Modern art normally has to be seen "in the flesh" to get any real appreciation I reckon Some is rubbish of course but you should make up your own mind - I'm sure Rembrandt had some awful days 'n aall If Rembrandt ever did something shit, which is debatable, he'd have destroyed it rather than exhibited it tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob W 0 Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 No-one knows - he may have flogged them at the horse boot sale every SUnday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15347 Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 "Fiver a pop, there's plenty more in the carriage!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob W 0 Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 "You won't regret having one of these on the bog wall missus!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 No-one knows - he may have flogged them at the horse boot sale every SUnday Saddlebag sale shirley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob W 0 Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 No-one knows - he may have flogged them at the horse boot sale every SUnday Saddlebag sale shirley. well he was Dutch so it they may have fallen out of the back of a boat I guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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