Tuesday 1 February 2011

Art for art's sake


Try and get along to John Stezaker's new exhibition. It's like an artier version of Sleeveface.


8 comments:

  1. Ooh, ta for that. I'm due a 'culture day' in London this month, so will definitely get along there.

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  2. I would love to get to this John but don't think that there is much chance, so thanks for posting it!

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  3. It is too far away for me to see the exhibition but if you hadn't posted the mention I would not have enjoyed the the Guardian slide show link. Thanks

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  4. Blimey - cheers for the tip John, I'm literally 10 minutes from Whitechapel today, so will punt along.

    I had a pop to the This Is Tomorrow expo a couple of weeks back and caught the component parts of Richard Hamilton's 'What Is That....
    http://twitpic.com/3ntf6r

    Also managed to grab a great Robert Crumb event yonks ago..

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  5. Back - and well worth the jaunt (belt). The postcard art is very proto-sleevface. Almost all the expo would make for great post-punk album art.

    Personal fave: Enter, Exit Third Person series. But can't find anything on the net about it

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  6. Glad you liked it Mondo. I read about it in The Times, but due to their paywall I ripped The Grauniad's blurb instead. Some of the Sleeveface stuff has had me in bits over the last couple of years. When I posted it on The Word blog someone fired back with a great Irish TV ad which made the whole thing come alive. Give me 5 mins and I'll try and find it.

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  7. This is great stuff John. Thanks for the tip-off - I'm definitely going to check it out!

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