Turn up for the books, the image I found and posted last week happened to be created by John Stezaker, better still the Whitechapel Gallery just opened up an extensive view on the life and work of this thought provoking Flâneur.
The exhibition showed work juxtaposing painterly illustrations of man-made machinery and its steam it produces with the contrasted title of the Sublime and also taking genre photographs and taking away their fixed meaning (literally with crude cutting) to question our relationship with how we view images in their entirety. Stezaker is the original Richard Prince, creating new thoughts and meaning to a found postcard, classic movie still or illustration by editing it with a knife.
However as for the rest of the current exhibiting work at the Whitechapel; laughable. Summing up all my hate for bad post modernism, 'art for arts sake'. An empty room, attempting to question art itself (cliche alert) made me wonder if it was currently under renovation or as we're in East London, could the work I was meant to be viewing have been robbed? 'Art is collapsing into philosophy.'
1 comment:
hahaa funny post
really wanna see the exhibition
gonna go as soon as I come baaack
XX
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