Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Seconds: the Imperfect Artwork

With Catherine De Zegher's talk at the DIT still dwelling in my thoughts, speciffically her quoting of Richard Tuttle talking about "how not to make art", I was really interested to hear about a exhibition taking place at the Wexford Arts Centre, Seconds: the Imperfect Artwork.
On the press release it states that "seconds:: the imperfect artwork, considers the nature of failure which is inherent in the creative process." To me the question of failure is very pertenent to drawing. Do we aspire to create something that we already know or see before hand or do we (as with Tuttle) try to "keep ourselves out of the work[?]" {De Zegher quoting Tuttle.}

At the Drawing Symposium at Tate Britain earlier this year (With a Single Mark), Jimmie Durham showed us several of his 'very bad drawings' which were great. To what extent is drawing explorative and involves the removal of perfection, resolution and ego? How does a mistake or accident change the slippage of the 'ground' on which it sits?

Artists exhibiting are; Ide Maloney, Lee Welch, Brian Fay, Gary Coyle, Fiona O'Dwyer, Michael Fortune, Sean Taylor, David Beattie, Aideen Barry, Cliona Harmey, Helen Hughes, Bea McMahon, Sally Timmons, Sonia Sheil, Eileen Healy, Felicity Clear, Alan Phelan, Danny McCarthy, John Langon, Martin Shannon, Mark Curran, Noel Molloy, Mary-Ruth Walsh, Simone Schneider and Simon Lewandowski.

There is a Public Talk on Sunday 10th December 2.30pm.
Paul O'Neill and Aileen Lambert discuss failure in relation to curatoring.