Sunday, November 2, 2014

English Magic

Turner Contemporary @ Margate . ENG - a dynamite exhibition venue in the seaside city that prides itself as hometown of contemporary artist Tracey Emin, and where the English Romantic painter, J.M.W. Turner lived for some time in Mrs. Booth's Boarding House, boasting that the skies were the best he had ever painted in all of Europe! I believe, he had a very good point. 
Jeremy Deller's English Magic takes one on a magical mystery tour through
English history, art, culture and geographical positioning.
Fragment of early Arts & Crafts pioneer William Morris, wood block with wall paper fragment

image from David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust Tour
wood block from early Arts and Crafts Movement by William Morris on display within Derek's installation prompting dialogue on theatricality, artifact, artifice and experience
public handling of a Paleolithic axe head
and a Neo-Paleolithic axe head takes Deller's work forwards and back...