Tea Party
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
artheat is happy to announce that Brenden Gray says he takes it all back and so we are going to be friends now. Goody, we say. Tea and buns and strawberry jam all round.Labels: Art South Africa, artheat, Brenden Gray, Joburg art fair
posted by Vince Condesini at 7:30 PM
14 Comments:
COOL! Which one am I? Am I even there? See how quickly my ego runs away with me... Like the palette table. You should start a business manufacturing those: they'd be huge in the Oostelike Woonbuurte van Pertoria...
Who's holding that particularly phallic croissant?
how did this reconciliation happen? Did brenden cry? Did Lizza beg Michael for forgiveness?
You can pick who you are, as I have no idea what you look like. Robert Sloon is the mystery man behind the newspaper, and I am the woman in the foreground. All of us are equally covered in jam.
Brenden wrote a line of retraction on his blog. Although really I think it was a miracle and we should all join our sticky hands and pray now.
i see the link to the need for food to be associated in art here again...
Well it does help to make it a bit more interesting, or at least if its not you can have a nap if your tummy's full
Ja, well, great drawing Lizza. You don't need me to kiss your ass, but that really is a great image. When are you showing in JHB? Besides at Whatiftheworld at the art fair, I've never seen your stuff up close before... Have you seen Willie Saayman's drawings?
yes
What kind of art critic is Mr Gray? At the first sign of opposition he surrenders his position... would someone please put a stop to his existential musings on art criticism; he should really stick to his day job, his insights are limited and his admiration of Buys' Joburg Art Fair story that avoids any critical engagement with the fair shows that he has no grasp on the finer nuances of the trade that he claims to be associated with.
Reply to Michael.....It's a bit too public for me to talk about my own work here. You're welcome to email me if you really want to know.
a bit too public indeed or perhaps not public enough.
"a great image", indeed. Please, you all deserve each other. James (Thurber) drew a series where the artist protagonist wishes, desires, longs ( life's injustice) that s/he could have been a shoe sales person (and it wasn't a reference to Warhol, who drew shoes when he was an advertising hack, what would be called today, a creative, I suppose). This reminds me of that and I am left with a pathetic response: a desire to read about shoe shops, or perhaps Martin Creamer's Mining Weekly. Anything but art ego ping pong
Is it just me, or is the anonymity option on this blog just too easy a position from which to snipe at passing exchanges? It creates something like a virtual version of graffiti: a practice of leaving an inconsequential, frequently incoherent marker of one's presence, without actually getting too involved.
I do like the conflation of the artist with a shoe salesman, though, especially in context of the art fair...
I don't know who Mona is, but she's been posting comments for ages. You could be having a drink with Mona right now and you'd never know it, and I think that's great. I think it's unnecessary to connect ideas with an individual, especially in a little teacup like this, where we have none of the natural anonymity of bigger cities.
sum wud sey: life is but an inconsequential, frequently incoherent exchange, a passing snipe, virtual conflation of anonymity and presence.
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not James but Jules (Feiffer) dude. Get it straight.
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