SALON (LONDON) presents Not for Sale

Not for Sale was the third exhibition I curated for SALON (LONDON). Artists included:

- Tessa Farmer
- Ross Sutherland
- Annie Cattrell
- Tessa Whitehead
- images from the Zebrafish Research Unit at University College, London
- Stuart Whipps
- Thomas Hillier
- David Kohn
- Grégoire Alix-Tabeling

The press release is below or you can read Tom Jeffreys’ review over at Spoonfed.

As part of the exhibition, I invited fantastic food designers, Blanch & Shock, to create a series of menus for three dinners which would take the place of a traditional private view.  Guests were primarily invited from a pool of people whose work interested me, but who I had not previously met in person – the idea was to bring together a group of people who wouldn’t have met given their differing disciplines but who would at least have one thing in common: that they had been invited to the dinner.

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Not for Sale explores a simple curatorial concept: a desire to bring together works from across a broad range of often-segregated disciplines – from painting to graphic design to science to poetry – and exhibit them simultaneously.

The works are united, however, in that they have all been selected for the show by SALON’s director, Crystal Bennes: “This is by far the most personal exhibition I’ve curated. Given that I work across a variety of different disciplines, I often find myself stuck in a journalist box or a curator box, but I love science and philosophy and architecture as well. This show isn’t offering up a display of works that have been forced to fit within a rigid thematic framework: it’s simply work that I love across a variety of different disciplines made by people I find equally fascinating.”

In a further attempt to bring different disciplines together, Not for Sale will eschew the traditional private view in favour of a series of invitation-only dinners where artists, scientists, academics, journalists and curators will be fed by the inventive food design group Blanch and Shock.

Bennes again: “Effectively, Not for Sale is an attempt to put into practice a lot of ideas I’ve had of late – about art as a non-commercial practice, as an arena to cross disciplines and to share ideas. It’s definitely an experiment, a work in progress. None of the works are for sale; there won’t be a private view. Private views are about generating publicity or selling works. This show is about ideas, but not about ideas from the top down; rather, I want the ideas to come from the people who attend the dinners and the people who see the work.”

produced by SALON (LONDON) Through to 3rd April 2011
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