Go West @ Spectrum

THE FIRST MAJOR STUCKIST SHOW SINCE THE WALKER MUSEUM

Stuckism has gained so much fame from its demonstrations and media campaigns that its real purpose is in some danger of being overshadowed. That purpose is perfectly obvious– to make art, and to have it seen and discussed without preconceptions, in a perfectly normal and rational fashion.


In one way this misunderstanding is the Stuckists own fault. Like the Gorilla Girls, the campaigning feminist art group founded in New York in the mid-1980s, the Stuckists have been extremely adept in gaining media attention. Their most recent, and perhaps most resounding triumph of this sort was their use of the Freedom of Information Act to garner details about the Tate’s purchase of an expensive work by one of its own trustees, Chris Ofili. As a result of this disclosure, the Tate found itself at serious odds with the Charity Commission, and its director, Sir Nicholas Serota, was forced into a groveling public apology


6th October 2006. The show runs until 4th November 2006




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