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Some thoughts on the Turner prize 2005. 1
Reviews

From: Ron
Category: Art
Date: 05 November 2005

Review

So the first room is for Simon Starling who has bicycled across the desert and painted a picture with the water produced by his specially made bike. Is it important that he biked across this desert, the only desert in Europe, is it important that he used the water produce by this activity to paint a picture, is it important that the picture is of a cactus that he saw there? If it is not important, what is it? Is it beautiful, does it leave us with something else, does it make us feel uplifted and joyous, does it make us think how ludicrous the world is? Well if we read about it it does make us feel how ludicrous the world is and in a way there is nothing wrong with that thought, and perhaps it is good to bring our attention to how ludicrous the world is, but Starling I think you could have done this better. I think I would have liked to walk in to that room and thought immediately “Wow how ludicrous, ha ha ha, what a ridiculous and ludicrous world and what ends we go to for such a little”. But in a way what he has done is what Art should be, this is what people expect art to be, something ridiculous with tenuous links to some other ridiculous point which links to some other ridiculous obsession (something art and art schools are keen on) in some ridiculous person’s head. Like detective fiction one has the idea that any thing could happen at the end and some how conclude all the events preceding in some strange and convoluted explanation (just to continue with an area of discussion recently thought about on world wide review).

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