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From: anon
Category: Exhibitions
Date: 08 March 2001
Tomoko Takahashi, To loosely misquote her , she is ' making art for the ordinary people' everyone or nobody. When will people tire of this cliché, when will people stop rehashing fluxus, which rehashed surrealism or situationism, or some other more interesting movement? No one is interested in stupid, money and time wasting interventions in their ordinary lives, and if they are it would make them happier if artists gave away chocolates or cigarettes or lottery cards. And even if artists did actions that made people happy, they would still be constitute a mediocre and naïve evasion of real politics. Also how many times must we be shown the aesthetic of arranged rubbish? Wolfgang Amadeus Tilmans The magazine photographer with a good eye wins the great art prize. The scattered photos mirror the carelessly overlooked beauty which they depict. Concorde and still lives from our very contemporary lives. These are ok photos of some sometimes interesting things. Michael Raedecker Lately I have noticed many embroidery and painting MR ripoffs in art schools. Is this the future? Tapestry and painting united at last. Unfortunately MR's own paintings have begun to look more like the imitations than even the mindless imitators's ripoffs. I fear this effect may be caused by boredom with the embroidery device rather than a decline in the standard of MRs paintings. The colours are very boring. Glen Brown 1 Copy the surface of thickly painted paintings using thin paint to make an exact brushmarkless copy. 2 Copy kitschy sci-fi paintings exactly. 3 Copy distorted paintings. 4 Copy something else.
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