Drawing by Chloe Pearson-Fletcher.
‘An artist doesn’t create art. An artist creates things that people see as art.’ Martin Creed, Artist. Interview on ‘Work no. 850’.
Martin Creed explained that art evokes different responses on individuals depending on where the art is presented. His project ‘Work no. 850’ was shown at the Tate Modern in London between 1st July – 16 November 2008. This particular piece of art was not a painting on a canvas, nor was it a sculpture that stands in the centre of a room. This piece was a representation of how he explains life. He tells us that he sees death as being still, motionless and lifeless, so for something to be alive it would need to be the complete opposite.
‘Life is always moving, so if living the opposite on death then what is the complete opposite of still…moving as fast as possible.’ Martin Creed, Artist. Interview on ‘Work no. 850’.
This is why Martin Creed encouraged athletes to run through the Tate as fast as they could. If these athletes were to perform somewhere natural like a running track or the street then no one would think twice about it, but because they were running somewhere out of the ordinary, it caught public attention.
The Collection/The Usher Gallery is the county museum and Gallery for Lincolnshire. It is a fusion of the Usher Gallery and the City and County museum in such a way that they can work more effectively together than hitherto. There were many different items in the gallery that seemed, at times, repetitive such as the tea sets. It is not that these tea sets didn’t belong there, because each one did seem to tell a different story about where it had come from and why it was created, but I felt like there were too many of them with two rooms dedicated to displaying them. However many people found the tea sets to be the best part of The Collection. Art is all about the opinion of the viewer and how that artefact spoke to them and made them feel.
The one piece of art that did speak to me and make me think about differences in people, was the dress made out of ripped up bits of the world map. To me it represented how fashion is seen all over the world. To me it stood for how unique each culture is and that something so different like the clothes on our backs can define who we are as a society or even as an individual.
Works Cited.
http://artforum.com/video/mode=large&id=21622