yeah its such a hit or miss thing. with you on the cool/good/fun stuff. everyone loves it, exactly like what you're saying, and it's also something that really feels like it's happening right now rather than some movement from the 70s or whatever that you're looking back on
something i know the name of and can find a picture of, this is a thing i saw in some little town in mass called north adams which for some reason despite being in the middle of nowhere has a fucking huge warehouse full of contemporary stuff. america kicks the shit out of the UK for this kind of thing. this is by louise bourgois, i mean everything about how she's presented is a bit annoying, she's literally called bourgois, she's in all these big collections, she feels like the kind of thing that you're supposed to like, and mostly her stuff is boring i think. this sculpture though looks like some random boring thing at first but again gets at something i've never seen expressed so well elsewhere, that thing of being in bed and wrapped around someone else's body. this is the best photo i could find but it doesn't do it justice in the slightest
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If anyone knows what that was (particularly the other film) I'd really like to find out/remember.Speaking of Louise Bourgeois makes me think of Nicki de Saint Phalle, I guess cos they both did those huge sculpture things at times. Anyway, I wouldn't say I was a huge fan of NdSP but I went somewhere in South London to see one of her films once along with another film by another artists which was about a cult waiting to go to meet god on a spaceship or something. That was a cool double-header though I don't remember the title of either film sadly. Hers may have been Un rêve plus long que la nuit which is a wicked title so I hope it was.
Pretty sure I saw that at one point. Was it part of the Apocalypse exhibition ca. 2000?One of my favourite things in art gallery was Richard Wilson's 20:50 which I would always make a point of seeing whenever I went to the Saatchi (until they finally got rid of it a few years ago). Doesn't look so good in the pics but basically it's just a room filled with oil and walking into it was quite amazing.
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It has occupied different premises, first in North London, then the South Bank by the River Thames, and finally in Chelsea, Duke of York's HQ, its current location.
I remember seeing that. You walk in and it's like a swimming pool filled with oil?
Very reflective and you're quite close to it, trying to figure out what it is.
Maybe it was St John's Wood first.
They used to have loads of signs saying "Don't touch it will stain your clothes"Yeah I thought it was really good.
Sort of a weird experience, cos you're wondering what it is for a bit.
I remember my friend taking me in there (he had seen it first) to see my reaction.
And the oil was close enough to touch.
Yes that must've been ityeah, I first saw it there, then later at the current Saatchi location.
that st john's wood location was cool, a converted old paint factory, in a really residential area about a 20 minute walk from the closest underground stop. it was me and maybe one to two other people any time I went. also remember walking by abbey road studio on the way back.
That's interesting cos in the new one I remember it being in a very bright room.Very dark room and very reflective. I can see it now. The whole trick of it was wondering what the fuck it was, what the container was etc