hoxton eastend gallery day

PEER - Kathy Penthergast - Yeah was okay i would of loved this in foundation and i guess I do alot of these fdrawings when im bored and cant think of anything to do.
I can imagine these being simple and people likign them and buying them. Im hoping she doesnt just do this all the time and this is also a thing in between which is sellable. if its just her practice then its too simple for me. I duno...its like yea theres a form within the map that youve ntoice and your colooruing the rest in and reducing it to frm but it doesnt dsay antyhing about antyhing. or maybe it does. I looked at her in foundation and i just dont feel like my view on her has changed since my conceptual framework ahs changed....maybe im getting snobby


ARCADE - Caroline achaintre - best exhibiton of the day. eeeemazing. the quality of what I was looking at was very good. conceptually simple but that doesnt matter. i could tell straight away that it was from painting even though it was a carpet technique. Goes to show what James says is true that it can be really simple so long as its done well. I just loved it. especially the little piece which had this heavy cermaic thing hanging from its leather string but the string had a slit in it which gave this feeling of real on edgeness about the whole piece. seriously top notch stuff.creating feelings...real art.


10/10

THE WHITE CUBE GALLERY - Candice Bretiz - I found the first film incredibly amazing. i sat down for at least35 to 40 mins and a film hasnt done that to me for a while.i loved the way she completely controlled the vieiwer. your brain would think whats the tatoo about...then 5 mins later theyd answer it. and the way the moving image was manipulated to control us. the only problem i had was that the first film was so long that by the time i moved onto the other films i was exhasuted and my concentration had gone and i was just looking at the different bacground the mannerisms of the people. it definately questionned what an identity was for me though. the piece completely nailed the press release which is why i liked it. the artist is very sure of what they are doing and can step back from their piece and undersytand what they feel. i want to be that good.

LIMONCELLO- Matthew Smith - These arent he pieces I saw however I duno if I liked the show. It consisted of a vdieo of mud tracks then some prints on yellow and the caps on the floor. I mean I am starting to appreciated just from the realisation how things are made and how difficult it is to get clean cut amazing things. so i respect in that sense. i did see a relaitonship between the whole things rather than each seperate thing being a whole unit itself. thats all i got from it. it made me stand at a point where i could see all of it once and try to understand the links behind them. actually I do really like this now that ive written about it. it is actually very celver. I would make this kind of art for my friends etc but i wouldnt want this for the public. its too elitest I think. I duno. I think im stil trying to hold to my anti elitest thoughts and am still wanting art to be for the people. I did like the show yes.

HAUSER AND WIRTH - Bharti Kher - yes was interesting to see sperm shaped bindis on top of pregnancy prints. it was interesting to see how the material changed its language when positioned against different backgrounds and surroundings.

The lay out the exhibiton was very interesting. how it lead the viewer throuhg the room and you saw a bit of the unicorn out the top window before seeing it upstairs. this i liked very much indeed.

The art itself was a bit psssh. I duno. maybe i didnt get it. Maybe its just not me. I've never been to this gallery though so it was just interesting looking at who represented there.

Also i met a girl there who was invigilating who I knew from the art fair that I did a week ago and we started talking and i made a new contact which is mega cool and im starting to realise how small the art world is.

SEVENTEEN GALLERY - Graham Dolphin - I did like the film...lots of found videos about how empires and successful civilisations have always been built on slavery. nothing has changed. Although the content was good for me the aesthetic was very much like i would of picked a few years ago. very cool like colourful and hip....and i was thinking i didnt want my work to look like that. i want it to look more serious. is that conditioning. The things made out of bread didnt quite understand but I like the relationahip they had with the video piece....im not quite sure what it was about though....maybe i like it thats not obvious and one has to think a bit...yes I definately like that....bread.....the plynth on which the bread pieces were had the same style of the video. The calvin klien advert was very strange. So u think your a real artist. i might understand a little better another day.

Overall the space downstairs felt completely escapist. trying to be very cool indeed.

R.O.O.M - Carolyn Brunt - creating lonely situations. Isolated. had a melanchonic feel to them, which was okay. not rating highly though. i was interested in HOW she manipulated them to exaggerate the lonliness. was okay.

FLOWERS GALLERY - not very interesting stuff. however nice and big space