Reflective Log: Group Critique in the Studio with Andrew

Key points:

• My silver experimental piece with red cracks underneath – the group was more interested with the details within the materials. 
• I should make a bigger piece and focus on making work rather than the context behind it.

• I could be making a gallery that is the opposite of the Gagosian? A commercial gallery that juxtaposes the normal commercial gallery. Pound shop gallery featuring art work that is worth a pound

• Does value add a seriousness to art? I believe so. 

• More on the value of artwork – I could have itemised billing that goes along side pieces of work within this gallery, for example material costs and hourly wage costs that makes the value of the art work

Further Artist research: 

Rafael Tapoelski -  minimum wage paintings. I googled this artist however nothing came up at all. 

Maurizio Cattelan – An Italian artist famous for his Stolen art work, and other outrageous moves such as alloting his space within the Venice Biennale to an advertising agency: "while his response to the pressure of exhibiting at the Venice Biennale was to lease his allotted space to an advertising agency, which installed a billboard promoting a new perfume (Working Is a Bad Job, 1993)." (Gugenheim, 2012, https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/maurizio-cattelan-all ) Perhaps this is a covert comment on art, advertising and consumerism. 

Susan Collins – an artist who uses material value literally, like using diamonds for the heads of screws, mother of pearl on a ladder in an installation, where the materials work to be contradictory. "You wouldn't look twice at a row of screws in a gallery wall - until you read the label and find that they are made of diamonds, topaz, turquoise, gold and platinum." (Telegraph, 2007, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/donotmigrate/3669553/Exhibition-Out-of-the-Ordinary.html) 

Andrea Fraser – critique – doesn’t want her work to move within the art market

Reflections:
Keep making work in relation to the materiality I am interested with (silver, luxury goods, details within materials) and focus on the context later.