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From: Stcuk
Category: Exhibitions
Date: 29 October 2003
I liked Grayson Perry best, he's better than Fred, his pots have a visual depth, gasp, that actually stimulates pleasure in your brain when you look at them. It is the collaging, rather an old-fashioned idea, of visual styles and images, and the clear desire to communicate that makes them better than the other rather arid exhibits in this year' show. Onion Anya Gallacio makes museum art that is tediously pretty and elaborately justifiable, but is almost not boring for reason of it's sheer simplicity. Not wonderful, not bad of its type. Chapman Brothers have drawn on some Goya etchings and they look like drawn on Goya etchings. They made a lead balloon fucking dildo couple as well, which is about as funny as all cast versions of inflatables( see Koons etc.). Their dioramas are crummy, and it all look to be trying so damn hard that you don't give a damn, like walking into a fantasty dungeons & dragons figure shop in the suburbs. Willie O' Docherty has made a Hitchcock film without the cock, apparently it is a statement about Irish politics. It is ok, like two people running after each other. He could have tried harder. Vive Modern art. Viva las vegas.
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