“Reality does not wear a tie”
Autumn 2007
25cm x 17cm x 8cm
Description
Dark wooden box, lid covered in silk (recycled tie fabric) on outside, light green wool cloth (recycled scarf) on the inside. Two tiers, lined in patterned paper.
Top layer 1 Realism 2 Safety 3 Protection 4 Surrealism 5 Privilege 6 Text Bottom Layer 7 Renewal elastic for men’s and boys trunks 8 Car key man
Contents:
Themes, Comments and Storylines
Text of booklet
“The autonomy of parts, the revolt of objects, pockets of void become generative forces in all the arts. Abstraction and reality – not realism – conduct this rancorous argument throughout modernism. The picture plane, like an exclusive country club, keeps reality out and for good reason. Snobbishness is, after all, a form of purity, prejudice a way of being consistent. Reality does not conform to the rules of etiquette, subscribe to exclusive values, or wear a tie; it has a vulgar set of relations and is frequently seen slumming among the senses with the other antithetical arts.”
Brian O’Doherty, Inside the White cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space, The Lapis Press, Santa Monica, San Francisco 1986, p. 38
What DOES reality wear?
As the saying goes, without art we are just monkeys with car keys.
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