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he found it
...a ratty old collapsed armchair - worn, dirty, leaking stuffing, possibly housing active vermin colonies. I asked the gallery person if the chair was art, and she said yes, it was a work titled "Chair." I asked her what role the artist had played in creating "Chair." She said: "He found it." [pic]Dave further notes that "Chair" (actually "chair", otherwise known as "Untitled (ellipses) II"), by Rodney McMillian's work limns absence as an unmitigated presence. His take on absence is more sensuous than cerebral. He doesn't deconstruct the idea of absence and then rebuild it as a dialectical opposition which posits that what's not seen, felt, experienced is as significant, perhaps moreso, as that which is. [...] The subject... is not our reaction to a void but our innate tendency to venerate the void itself as something sacred and iconic. [...] As a repository and sum of former posteriors that have dented its cushions, of previous elbows that have grazed the armrests, the chair offers not a weedy patina of desuetude but an apotheosis of its former occupant.Uh, what? I'd get those innate tendencies looked at, mate. The comedy just writes itself here, and I don't care if I am shooting fish in a barrel: these idiots are funny. My hat's off to your man Rod, though; he's found some festering piece of crap in a bin somewhere and he's conned these wankers into putting it in a gallery. I bet some fool will even buy it. --> |
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