Remote Goat | "Sweet Enough For Surrealist Teeth"
by Hassan Vawda for remotegoat on 26/11/12
Guerrilla Zoo brings back to London a third instalment of mind warping art in Modern Panic III and it is a bigger and more ambitious than before. Tirelessly curated by James Elphick, he has brought an exhibition of over 50 international artists, from cult icons and established to some really fascinating emerging and reality bending creative minds.
The show stems from the 60's Parisan artistic group that was almost outsider art take on the popular at the time surrealist movement, Alejandro Jaradowsky was arguably the most prominent member who went on to make the most visually arresting and provocative films of his generation and now held in high cult esteem. There is no doubt that Modern Panic is a success because after setting a tone by evoking Jaradowsky and the Panic Movement, as you wonder through the contemporary cosmos of photographs, paintings, performance and film, the artistic tone is never deafened.
There is a fine contrast with the works involved, constantly switching between urban surrealist scenes to the biological which really worked to the credit of the curator. There are some fantastically original pieces on display, two artist which really caught my eye were two sculptures who twist up the natural world. Charlie Tuesday Gates grotesque taxidermia was something right out of The Holy Mountain, beautiful in construction but horrible in form and Cedric Laquieze delicate reconstructions of organic materials such as bones and insects to create these fantastic new beings. There is so much work that everyone will find something to really be stung by; however at the same time I am sure there will be some work that you would absolutely loathe. With the theme and subject matter it is very easy for artists to stray or fall back on novelty and shock value and there were pieces I tried to drown out because they weren't sugar sweet enough for my surrealist tooth, more like knock off artificial sweetener. Still, there is so much that everyone will find something they like, and still it is always interesting to see work by Charlie Bronson or the installations of Brion Gysin's Dream Machine.
The show is on till the 2nd of December at the Apiary Studios.
Source : http://www.remotegoat.co.uk/review_view.php?uid=9245
Guerrilla Zoo brings back to London a third instalment of mind warping art in Modern Panic III and it is a bigger and more ambitious than before. Tirelessly curated by James Elphick, he has brought an exhibition of over 50 international artists, from cult icons and established to some really fascinating emerging and reality bending creative minds.
The show stems from the 60's Parisan artistic group that was almost outsider art take on the popular at the time surrealist movement, Alejandro Jaradowsky was arguably the most prominent member who went on to make the most visually arresting and provocative films of his generation and now held in high cult esteem. There is no doubt that Modern Panic is a success because after setting a tone by evoking Jaradowsky and the Panic Movement, as you wonder through the contemporary cosmos of photographs, paintings, performance and film, the artistic tone is never deafened.
There is a fine contrast with the works involved, constantly switching between urban surrealist scenes to the biological which really worked to the credit of the curator. There are some fantastically original pieces on display, two artist which really caught my eye were two sculptures who twist up the natural world. Charlie Tuesday Gates grotesque taxidermia was something right out of The Holy Mountain, beautiful in construction but horrible in form and Cedric Laquieze delicate reconstructions of organic materials such as bones and insects to create these fantastic new beings. There is so much work that everyone will find something to really be stung by; however at the same time I am sure there will be some work that you would absolutely loathe. With the theme and subject matter it is very easy for artists to stray or fall back on novelty and shock value and there were pieces I tried to drown out because they weren't sugar sweet enough for my surrealist tooth, more like knock off artificial sweetener. Still, there is so much that everyone will find something they like, and still it is always interesting to see work by Charlie Bronson or the installations of Brion Gysin's Dream Machine.
The show is on till the 2nd of December at the Apiary Studios.
Source : http://www.remotegoat.co.uk/review_view.php?uid=9245
