Abstract art exhibition Where I Live focusses on woodland creatures
The Marksman gallery on Gun Street has a new musical installation based on what can only be described as a back garden. There is a strong emphasis on squirrels with leather jackets with squirrels on the back, video art of squirrels and a squirrel feeding table. There is only so much enjoyment you can get from squirrels, watching them go about there business or brightly coloured feeding paraphernalia isn’t what I would consider art.
There was an opportunity to listen to 5 tracks written by 2 artists; folky sounds strummed through the earphones as I watched life on St Mary’s Butts go by. It seemed a million miles away and provided escapism to a beautiful place during a simpler time.
The main piece was instruments whittled out of some wood and beer cans. Mixing natural materials with modern technology, you could pick up one of the instruments and play it. The VT in the background would show squirrels playing the same instrument along with you. What the artist was trying to get across, I'm not entirely sure. Was there a point to this exhibition or was all in the name of fun? It was fun, but not stimulating enough to keep me in the gallery for long or profound enough to make me think.
Jackson Pollack changed the way we look at art by splattering paint on a canvas, from this he challenged out we view and what art is. Has this installation done this by utilizing clever technology, yes it has just as musicians making music from hooking together 80s computer consoles is art.
First published 2008
There was an opportunity to listen to 5 tracks written by 2 artists; folky sounds strummed through the earphones as I watched life on St Mary’s Butts go by. It seemed a million miles away and provided escapism to a beautiful place during a simpler time.
The main piece was instruments whittled out of some wood and beer cans. Mixing natural materials with modern technology, you could pick up one of the instruments and play it. The VT in the background would show squirrels playing the same instrument along with you. What the artist was trying to get across, I'm not entirely sure. Was there a point to this exhibition or was all in the name of fun? It was fun, but not stimulating enough to keep me in the gallery for long or profound enough to make me think.
Jackson Pollack changed the way we look at art by splattering paint on a canvas, from this he challenged out we view and what art is. Has this installation done this by utilizing clever technology, yes it has just as musicians making music from hooking together 80s computer consoles is art.
First published 2008
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