28th October - 8th November

This show comprises mainly figurative work in plastic. A Shiny Wunderkammer folk-art.

The artist's problem when manufacturing works is the question of context. If you take either your perceived (or desired) position in broad cultural schema into account during the manufacture of work, you surrender yourself to the machinations of the institution. The rules and impositions of this institution are myriad, and iits logic is always at a remove from the simple acts of production and consumption.

The perfect work is found after the fact, and directly linked to personal experience. The perfect work comes from left field, and has a punctum of its own. It does not request permissions. It is wholly different from that which is art. Contemporary art-objects have an awkward need to be made: to be tied to manufacture, to economics, and to politics. It is an awkward need of these objects to be disseminated, to warrant the gallery space and its commercial interests. These needs are awkward because they deny the primacy of the experience of objects as such, and make themselves subservient to a machine of authenticity, an
institution with requisite self-preservational interests at its core. The work in this small show takes an overtly classical approach in form except for the themes or materials used. It is produced by an trained artist unprepared to talk about art, and unprepared to be self-referential; it does not explore or examine; it is not political. In place of essentialism, it proposes Wunderkammerism.

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