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The perfect crime

Evans, Geraint (2011) The perfect crime. [Show/Exhibition]

Type of Research: Show/Exhibition
Creators: Evans, Geraint
Description:

Contribution to a group exhibition.

Exhibition statement: If art, as Jean Baudrillard puts it, is the perfect crime, it is because art aspires to be the perfect illusion. It is the ability for painting to trick the eye and mind, to act, according to Lacan as a “trap for the gaze”, that determines a painting’s quality. This is what the public mean when they praise an artist for their ‘skill’ – what they admire precisely is the ability to deceive. Baudrillard describes the artist as the one who resists with all their might the urgent desire not to leave traces. The world is full of traces, the marks of things that exist beyond the world of appearances. Painting clearly is a medium made up solely of traces – the traces of a brush and of paint – so how can a perfect illusion be created out of this? A perfectly rendered surface is not always the solution. The sense of totality, of beginning and end compressed together, the sudden revelation of a previously hidden structure – these also can mitigate against the awkwardness of the hand-made to create something pure complete or beautiful.

The Perfect Crime, curated by Phillip Allen and Dan Coombs, brings together a selection of small-scale works by a group of prominent artists working today in London and elsewhere. In creating the show the curators hope to present a visually dazzling exhibition that indicates some of the possibilities available to artists working today.

Other Contributors:
RoleName
CuratorAllen, Phillip
CuratorCoombs, Dan
ExhibitorCraddock, Sasha
ExhibitorCumberland, Stewart
ExhibitorHarding, Alexis
ExhibitorHousley, Paul
ExhibitorJoffe, Chantelle
ExhibitorRolph, Danny
ExhibitorWestwood, Martin
Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: Group exhibition, painting, No.4A Gallery Malvern, Jean Baudrillard
Your affiliations with UAL: Colleges > Wimbledon College of Arts
Date: 2011
Related Websites: http://www.no4a.com/Future%20Exhibitions.html, http://www.geraintevans.net/index.html
Related Websites:
Projects or Series: Research Outputs Review (April 2010 - April 2011)
Locations / Venues:
Location
From Date
To Date
No4a, North Malvern Road, Malvern, WR14 4LT
10 June 2011
22 July 2011
Material/Media: Painting: oil on board
Date Deposited: 10 Feb 2012 13:08
Last Modified: 10 Feb 2012 13:08
Item ID: 4248
URI: https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/4248

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