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O U This faux magazine was
produced for distribution at the ‘Ghosts of the Academy’ exhibition. It was
originally intended solely as a play on the early Gilbert and George publication
‘A Day in the Life of George
& Gilbert the
sculptors’, Autumn
1971, ART
FOR ALL, 12 FOURNIER STREET. I was amused by the
cult of personality as a work. It was to become a major factor in the art world
although I admit I could not see it at the time. I was very interested in the
typographic play that they used which was ‘old fashioned’ at the time: lower
case type being a popular stylistic tendency in the 60’s: no capital letters
for anything. I enjoyed the concept of style as art, particularly in the performance
work of Bruce McLean one of their contemporaries at St. Martin’s School of Art. The concept of ART FOR
ALL struck a chord with my own feelings: how art might interact in public
places rather than be destined for museums. This had been the main impulse for
me to explore the way in which paintings might relate to architecture in
earlier works. The reproduced
photographs were intended as a play on performance art of the time and in some
way mimic the type of photograph in the Gilbert and George work. |
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