At the end of each month we will select a small number of artists to feature in our new publication, Eyes on the Crowd. These artists will also receive an invitation to sell their work in our curated gallery. This months theme is the figure and after much deliberation and debate here is the selection…
Click on the artists below to see more of their work:
Renowned British sculptor Richard Wilson unveiled his latest contemporary work “Square the Block.” The work is located on the northwest exterior of the London School of Economic’s Academic Building on the corner of Kingsway and Sardinia St.
The work was curated by The Contemporary Arts Society. It is over 5 stories tall coming out of the building…Check it out!
Richard Wilson has been nominated for the Turner Prize twice and was awarded the prestigious DAAD residency in Berlin 1992-03. His proposal was selected through an international competition in 2007.
We asked chair-loving artist Claudie Bastide, interviewed in yesterday’s blog post, to tell us more about her art, and to cherry-pick one of her pieces to feature on our blog.
Claudie selected Chair Rase, one of her famous chairs turned into a character with hair, a mouth, eyes, a nose, a hat and breasts. The engraved caption on the seat of the chair reads “faisons chaise-rase des idées reçues” which translates as “let’s break free from pre-conceived ideas”, thus challenging the viewer to perceive objects around him in a completely different way. “This sculpture is very much the illustration of my artistic approach”, Claudie adds.
Claudie is a militant against meaningless chairs, and by using what she calls the “chair language”, wishes to unsettle the viewer and force him to ask questions about life, himself, others as well as art. Claudie openly admits that she’s not entirely sure whether her chairs are comfy, at b-uncut however, we think they are thought-provoking!
Claudie has nicknamed her chairs the “troublemakers”, as they do challenge the perception, we as humans, have of objects we take for granted.
As Claudie points out:
“Many people ask whether they can sit on them or not and what may happen if they sit on them. I answer that it is an effect of their mind that sitting becomes a thoughtful act and that my chair-sculptures are links between their bottom and their mind!”
