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It is also distributed to high-level arts donors; museum and gallery directors and professionals; companies, including architectural practices, fashion houses, financial services and creative industries; and to students via university and college libraries. Opinion It must have been the most eagerly awaited Harold Offeh © STRATFIELD SAYE PRESERVATION TRUST exhibition of 2020. Not the biggest, with only seven works. Yet in reuniting what is perhaps the most admired sequence of paintings ever created, for the first time in more than 400 years, What is the importance of the National Gallery’s ‘Titian: Love, Desire, Death’ offered a true once-in-a-lifetime experience, Afrofuturism one which – due to the peculiar nature of these paintings’ evolution – even the artist himself never enjoyed. Unlike rival Renaissance highpoints such as Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel or Raphael’s to you? paintings for the papal apartments, Titian’s Are cultural prizes still meaningful? Poesie – or poetries – aren’t superhuman in scale. Designed to hang in the private rooms of the most powerful man in the world, Philip II of Spain, they average around 1.8m by 1.5m: impressive, but just about livable with, in the average modern interior. Recent arts prizes have been shared or split between nominees, resulting in their relevance But what these paintings lack in size they make up for in depth and complexity of meaning, virtuoso technique and bravura sensual impact. being questioned. Nigel Prince, director of Cardiff-based arts organisation Artes Mundi, which runs a biennial international art prize and exhibition, makes the case that awards Gold The show offered the opportunity to immerse oneself in a group of works created for a great should both reflect their times and evolve with them F goes Renaissance potentate – works described by Lucian Freud as ‘the most beautiful paintings in the world’ – in an intimate, single-room show. From time to time the history of cultural Award ceremony for 2 And it was a chance to ponder, in our age of prizes is brought into focus. In 1993 Artes Mundi 6, 2015. the stunt by the K Foundation to award From left to right: Ghana-born, Cambridge-based artist even alien, African civilisation and the to dictate what people might run with, it’s hyper-sensitive identity politics, the problematic shortlisted artists Carlos meanings of works, inspired by the Ancient £40,000 to Rachel Whiteread as the Harold Offeh’s work encompasses African-American experience, which has not necessarily all going to be optimistic. Bunga, Sanja Iveković, Roman poet Ovid, that might be considered ‘worst artist of the year’ as she Renzo Martens, Renata photography, video, performance and been shaped by slavery and the loss of That’s really important for actual change the ultimate embodiment of the male gaze. simultaneously won the £20,000 Turner Lucas, Noor Afshan social practice. For his project Hail the biography and identity. It’s a funky to happen. If one looks at big cultural Prize for an outstanding presentation Mirza, Theaster Gates, New Prophets (supported by Art Fund), narrative, but Sun Ra was totally invested and social changes, you’ve always needed 24 Se Yet the show had barely opened on 16 March of her work, provided one such moment. Brad Butler and commissioned by Bold Tendencies for in that in terms of self-actualisation and people to think the unthinkable, whether when the gallery closed its doors, apparently Debate hinged on value or a supposed Ragnar Kjartansson 2021 – for its multistorey-car-park autopoiesis. Giving up his name, Herman that’s the abolitionists or [women’s rights indefinitely, the following Friday. BBC2’s celebratory documentary on the exhibition – examination of the relationship between exhibition space in Peckham, London – P Blount, is a strategy of reclaiming advocate] Mary Wollstonecraft. to which, full disclosure, I was a contributor – art, money and the critical establishment, Offeh has launched an open call inviting autonomy and agency. For me, the ship With the pandemic, the sculpture has aired on 4 April and was recut at the last minute, as well as questioning the role of prize the public’s visions for the future. as an object represents some key ideas: been postponed to 2021, but it has led to retitled Titian Behind Closed Doors: a wistful homage to an exhibition no one would see. awarding itself. In the mid-1990s especially, there was a notional currency They will be broadcast from a sculpture of an intergalactic spaceship, inspired by it refers to figures such as [pioneering black nationalist] Marcus Garvey, the questions about the project’s relevance to this new period. It’s brought reflection, 6O The thought of those magnificent canvases to such action. More recent events have Afrofuturism philosophy and its pioneer, Middle Passage of the slave trade and speculation and fear. Obviously, with hidden away behind the National’s massively been generated by a different impulse, Above: project design experimental jazz musician Sun Ra. the idea of reclaiming the ship as a vessel George Floyd’s death, in the US, there’s within a different context – that of a for Hail the New that might transport the diaspora home. a re-examination of history, and cultural solid doors haunted art lovers throughout the centring on collaboration and unity, as Prophets by Harold Bold Tendencies approached me last year The basic premise of the commission and national identities are being goldsm land: were the paintings still there, awaiting the Offeh and Jack Scott; moment when the gallery’s doors would once a necessary response to a climate of above, right: portrait about a commission for this summer. is a scale model recreation of that ship. challenged. The project has taken on #gol again be thrown open – and who knew when division and populism. by which a prize creates significance and other international institutions. Often of Harold Offeh I thought, ‘Here’s an opportunity to draw It’s going to be slightly hovering on stilts a deeper resonance, and it has given that would be? Or had they been returned to For example, the Booker last year was consequence, how do we ensure that this these activities continue the relationships on my previous projects’ – which often and will probably be made of fibreglass us the opportunity to launch this call. their respective galleries round the world under awarded to both Bernardine Evaristo’s is achieved for the benefit of all – artists, with our alumni artists. Furthermore, involved communities and thinking and coated with shiny yellow resin. People can write manifestos or poetry, cover of lockdown? It was a situation that would novel Girl, Woman, Other and Margaret audience and communities alike? we also co-administer a purchase about the dynamics of a space through We’ve drawn a lot from sci-fi aesthetics. make music and images, whether that’s highlight important questions about how we Atwood’s The Testaments, and in 2016 There is, needless to say, a multitude prize for the national collection of the lens of Afrofuturism and speculative The whole ship looks like two flaming video, drawing or photography. The ship can appreciate pictures without the pictures came Helen Marten’s decision to share of considerations in play during the contemporary art for Wales, discrete fictions. The Mothership Collective [2006] eyeballs with these long tails – a nod to will broadcast all of this. We’ll make a the Hepworth Sculpture Prize with her deliberations of a prize jury far beyond from the Artes Mundi Prize itself. was a commission to take over the South that idea of envisioning futures. We’ve soundtrack of samplings of submitted themselves, and about how we will consume fellow nominees, and, of course, the grappling with ideas of unnecessary Obviously, this is only one model but it London Gallery and fed into a line been thinking about a landing pad so material and screen videos that people art generally in the post-Covid world. news that for the Turner Prize in 2019, competition and notions of excellence forms a cohesive, integrated programme of research into Sun Ra but also looked people can congregate around it. It will be have produced. The ship will be a If these paintings’ predicament, at the end Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, or (in)appropriate comparison of type, that gives meaning to the existence at alternative futures. Futurama (2010) lit up, and I’m clinging to the idea of some backdrop to readings, conversations and of March, was unprecedented, so too was the Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani wrote to the range or quality of work. Reputation, of the prize itself and crucially creates involved working with a leadership dry ice, although that might not happen. performances, and I’m hoping to build a situation in which they were created. judges asking that they be viewed as a stage of career, how an award might significant networks with partners programme for young black people The car park has this unbelievable website to showcase all the contributions. At the time of the commissioning of the ‘collective’, whereby the entire shortlist impact or be meaningful to an individual locally, nationally and internationally, to rethink public space in Peckham. panorama of London, so it speaks to the We’ve had quite a few responses Poesie, around 1549, Titian was in his early were established as joint winners. And so artist all shape and inform discussions. rooting us firmly within and for the My work is often about re-enactments urban landscape. The project isn’t about already – predictions, compositions, sixties, Venice’s greatest painter, and celebrated again the idea of why something should Artes Mundi is more than merely a artists and publics we work with. of histories, of performances, so my idea a weird object folly; it is a catalyst for postcards. There’s concern about the throughout Europe as the greatest of portrait Titian in the flesh continue is raised. prize, one whose founding remit back in Because one form of award has was to recreate Sun Ra’s Mothership from audiences to engage in their own myth environment, Black Lives Matter, Titian, Danaë, c1551-53 Before these more recent occurrences, 2002 acknowledged that social, political been the model for several years doesn’t the 1974 cult film Space is the Place. It’s making and prophesying. It invites structural/political things such as ARTWORK: COURTESY BOLD TENDENCIES. PORTRAIT: PHOTO: © ALEX O’BRIEN for Artes Mundi in 2015 Theaster Gates and economic context as evidenced mean that a prize should not be able a lo-fi sci-fi featuring Sun Ra and his people to assume the methodology of universal basic income and everything made the decision to share the prize through the lens of contemporary to change. That evolution should Arkestra [ensemble] landing in Oakland, Sun Ra as a visionary. The call and title in between like future foods, clothes and money with the eight other nominated visual arts, would provide its modus examine everything from the near San Francisco, and preaching to the are about this process of calling forth and alternative technologies. For me, just artists. Consequently, this has prompted operandi. Aside from the biennial nomination, the selection and jury African-American community about the giving permission to be soothsayers and the opportunity to engage in any wild, an ongoing review as we plan each new exhibition and associated £40,000 process and the context and ways in virtues of space and alternative planets. fantasists. I’m concerned about who is crazy, imaginative ideas and a speculative The National Gallery’s once-in-a-lifetime Titian exhibition edition. Whether cultural prizes remain prize – that in itself provides a catalytic which artists and their work are It’s a philosophy-manifesto movie, able to speak to the future. Culturally, process has a lot of political agency. viable as a form is, of course, valid to moment across the part of Wales in presented and celebrated, to the award extended music video and also, bizarrely, there’s been a squeezing-out of people’s IMAGE © WALES NEWS SERVICE was a temporary casualty of the coronavirus spring shuttering. query, given the acknowledgement that artists, on a day-to-day basis, are not in which we work and beyond – Artes Mundi operates an ongoing public programme going to either a single ‘winner’ or to all artists involved, and more. And like a 1970s blaxploitation film. engagement with the imaginative or the zTo contribute to Hail the New Prophets, Mark Hudson tells the story of how the paintings were competition with each other. So, as it is that embraces community outreach perhaps more importantly that analysis The Mothership is an important symbolic reference within Afrofuturism. speculative. Everything has been about getting a job. In workshops people say, visit boldtendencies.com, closing date 19 September created, and how lockdown has made us see them afresh for Artes Mundi, if it comes down to relevance and resonance as the means initiatives, co-commissions and exhibitions of off-site projects with should look at who is being served and how this can create opportunity. For Sun Ra, it’s about this myth narrative ‘Oh, I guess I never really think’ or, ‘No that claims Ancient Egypt as an advanced, one’s really asked me.’ While I don’t want Interview by Elizabeth Fullerton. 18 Autumn 2020 Art Quarterly Art Quarterly Autumn 2020 19 Art Quarterly Spring 2020 63 88 Autumn 2020 Art Quarterly AQ AUT20 Goldsmiths Fair WP IBC.indd 1 Goldsmith_Fair_2020_Art_Quartly_Advert_Final Agenda ‘Ashley’s inflatables Funded Below, top right: Bangs Hair Salon takeover; fill the spaces where bottom: Robert Diament, they are shown but Russell Tovey and Helen Cammock for Talk Art fit into a backpack’ at Art Assembly Clare O’Dowd Making connections Art Fund Museum of the Year is the Left, below and right: Peter Hudson, Tate Art Assembly Illuminating biggest museum prize in the world, celebrating innovation and achievement St Ives In Colour, 2019 festival update in museums and galleries across the UK. There was a great atmosphere community The overall winner receives £100,000, while each of the other finalists is at Art Assembly, the inaugural awarded £10,000. As well as boosting one-day festival realised by Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Art Fund in collaboration with engagement visitor figures and profiles during the Economies campaign, the prize helps to reinforce Waltham Forest, the first finalists’ relationships with their London Borough of Culture, on audiences, both nationally and locally. 23 November. In venues across of scale When Tate St Ives won in 2018, its Walthamstow, people attended join us for the Annual General An interactive and director, Anne Barlow, was clear from the outset that she wanted to use the money installations at the Wellcome Collection, a programme of workshops, talks, displays and performances Meeting at 5pm on Thursday 18 June at Art Fund’s offices, collaborative light ‘to continue to support artist-led projects the Royal College of Art and Fabrica presented by arts organisations 2 Granary Square, King’s Cross, designed for, and in collaboration with, Gallery, Brighton. It was his project for from around the country. London N1C 4BH. All members Portable Sculpture installation was the the communities of St Ives’. Fabrica in 2017 that formed the basis of Highlights included an outdoor are welcome. To confirm your 5 February to 6 June Sculpture is often associated with large, monumental first project funded by Thus it came about that Peter Hudson, Tate St Ives In Colour. The original project bakery with breads from around place please email rsvp@ whose participatory works explore human was a co-commission with Project Art the world from Lake District- artfund.org objects that are weighty and permanent. But there the prize money from communication and how it is mediated Works in Hastings, an organisation based Grizedale Arts and a News on Art Pass is a long history of portable art, from small, carved takeover of Bangs Hair Salon stones made by nomadic tribes during the Ice Age to Tate St Ives winning by technology, was commissioned to produce an immersive and interactive which runs artist studios for people with complex needs. As part of his research, by St Helens-based arts medieval reliquaries and portable shrines. In the 20th Museum of the Year 2018, light installation as part of the gallery’s Hudson helped out with workshops organisation Heart of Glass membership and 21st centuries, many artists have made sculptures annual Winter Festival (30 November and observed their behaviour. and artist James Leadbitter. deliberately designed to fold up, pack down or be as Anna McNay reports 2019 to 5 January 2020) – the first project ‘One issue that really fed into the work,’ Actor Russell Tovey and gallerist Art Fund is pleased to report dismantled, often in response to unstable geopolitics, to be funded by the prize money. he explains, ‘was freedom of expression. Robert Diament hosted a that membership has now economic shifts or changes in personal circumstances. Hudson, who started out as a A lot of the time, in their daily lives, special live edition of their increased to 159,000, including A new group exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute composer and music teacher (hence people with complex needs are told to popular podcast, Talk Art, with 24,000 Student Art Pass will present work by 15 artists who, whether by design his interest in audience participation), pipe down or stop making a mess. The guest, artist Helen Cammock, members. In addition to a year or necessity, have produced sculptures that are has exhibited large-scale interactive way they interact with the world doesn’t who just days later became of art for only £5, Student Art easily transportable. Curator Clare O’Dowd spoke one of the Turner Prize 2019 Pass members also gain access to David Trigg about its themes. necessarily follow the same rules as from the studio was simultaneously winning collective. to regular paid opportunities neurotypical people. I wanted to provide projected into the Loggia, outside the and creative competitions, Art Fund AGM increase their knowledge and David Trigg: Since any small sculpture could be a space where they could explore entrance to the gallery, where it could defined as portable, what is distinctive about the creativity without boundaries. The other be seen from quite a distance. ‘I felt like experience of the arts, broaden works in this exhibition? aspect was about having control over it created a beacon,’ says Hudson. ‘It was information their networks and improve Clare O’Dowd: They all reflect ideas of movement and your environment, and I reflected that like a lighthouse because of its cylindrical their career-development Along with the generosity prospects. Recent opportunities BANGS HAIR SALON: © SAVANNAH PHOTOGRAPHIC/ALEX HARVEY-BROWN. ART TALKS: PHOTO © DAVID LEVENE. BOTH IMAGES COURTESY ART ASSEMBLY 2019. WALTHAMSTOW journeys, and each one has been created to be easily through the use of coloured light in a nature.’ After the gallery had closed each transported. A lot of sculptures are portable simply light-controlled space. I wanted anyone day, the light in the Loggia remained on, of trusts, foundations and include acting as paid venue because they’re small, but some in the exhibition are – a child, an elderly person or someone replaying the recorded interactions from individuals, Art Fund’s hosts at one-day festival Art huge. Do Ho Suh’s fabric sculptures, for example, take on the neurodiverse spectrum – to be that day. On Saturdays, the microphone charitable work is made Assembly (see above), which up a vast amount of space in the gallery but when Above, left: Do Ho Suh, which he made to preserve his legacy in the face of It’s going to be very brightly coloured and eye-catching. able to have an equal effect on the room. was taken from the studio to the Loggia, possible by its members through included training in order Hub, Wielandstr. 18, they’re packed down, they’re tiny. having to go into exile during the Second World War. Her inflatables are deliberately designed to fill the It’s a way of democratising the space.’ where members of the public could their purchase of a National Art to support participating 12159 Berlin, 2015; above: studio view of It’s essentially his life’s work in a box. spaces in which they are shown but they pack down into Hudson developed different ways speak, shout or sing into it, or even just Pass. As a member, if you want organisations on the day in DT: Portable sculpture has a long history. Why are you Claire Ashley, Clown 3, a backpack. Her reasons for making portable sculpture of interacting with the coloured light, tap it, and see the lights react. The pitch to hear about the museums, roles such as directing visitors focusing specifically on the 20th and 21st centuries? 2019; left: Mohamad DT: What other reasons have artists had for making are practical. She didn’t have much studio space and including a sphere, placed on a plinth, of their voice affected the colour, while projects and people your and conducting surveys to CO: I wanted to give the exhibition more of a focus. Hafez, Baggage Series portable sculpture? had a growing family. Making inflatables allowed which could be picked up, shaken the volume controlled the brightness. contribution is helping, please evaluate the event. Crucially, I wanted to explore the narratives behind the #3 from Baggage Series CO: Some of the reasons are really practical and prosaic. her to store the work easily and to pack it down when and moved about, and a microphone. The installation was launched at the SUH: © DO HO SUH, COURTESY THE ARTIST, LEHMANN MAUPIN AND VICTORIA MIRO. HAFEZ: COURTESY THE ARTIST sculptures, to concentrate on the sociopolitical contexts 2006-16; above, right: Alexander Calder’s mobiles are essentially flat-packs; she wasn’t working on it. The commission for Tate St Ives gave opening of the Winter Festival, where the James Ackerley, Studio in which they were produced. When you start peeling Objects, 2015, installation he designed them to come apart so that he could easily him the opportunity to develop and Tate St Ives Choir, comprising staff and ASHLEY: PHOTO: COURTESY THE ARTIST.ACKERLEY: COURTESY THE ARTIST. PHOTO: © ANNIE FENG back the layers it’s like dropping a stone in a pond, the view, Castlefield Gallery, package them up and post them to places without DT: As the art world becomes more concerned about refine these objects, as well as the volunteers, sang to the lights. The gallery narratives behind the artworks ripple out. Narrowing Manchester, 2017 attracting the attention of Customs. They are really the environmental impact of its activities, does complex programming behind it all. welcomed more than 900 visitors of the scope allows us to tell these stories. innovative, but part of his reason was also economic. ‘Portable Sculpture’ offer any solutions? The core of the work was in the Foyle all ages during this opening, and more James Ackerley also makes flat-pack sculptures. He’s CO: Some of the works of art are really relevant to those Studio, where one visitor at a time was than 200 local people sang as part of the DT: The exhibition begins with artists who a young artist and has had to move studios many times. concerns. Liz Ensz’s Convexity/Concavity (2015) speaks to in charge of the colour and its intensity. programme. Throughout, cushions and were displaced due to the Second World War. Like so many of his generation, he has found it very the impact of humans on the environment. It consists of ‘The language of a plinth is not one blankets in the Loggia drew visitors in, Do contemporary geopolitical issues also feature? difficult to find permanent, affordable studio space. large-scale silkscreen prints on fabric showing images of interaction,’ Hudson says. ‘People many of whom would not normally CO: Yes. Mohamad Hafez’s work relates to the current He makes meticulous cardboard sculptures that can from Google Earth that can be folded up and transported would come in, pick up the sphere, venture into an art gallery. political situation in Syria. He was living in the US when be dismantled and put into a portfolio. They’re designed in hand luggage. Each time the work is shown, Ensz get an immediate pulse of light, and Tate St Ives is still collating a final HUDSON: © TATE. PHOTOS BY KIRSTIN PRISK the civil war broke out and couldn’t go back to his home for swift disassembly, in case he has to move again. collects local junk to produce structures for them to be look confused. Then they’d shake it evaluation of the project, but visitor country. We’re showing works from his Baggage Series draped over. As with all of the works in the exhibition, and everything would turn super-bright. numbers and feedback were very positive, in which he fills suitcases with tiny architectural scenes DT: You have commissioned Claire Ashley to make they’re deliberately made to be easily transportable, so It was really lovely watching people as was social-media reach. With both depicting destroyed cities. The suitcase is symbolic of the a new work for the exhibition. What can visitors the environmental impact is naturally reduced. interact. It is quite nerve-racking making artist and gallery happy with how things refugee’s experience and his work echoes a lot of what expect to see? something interactive. There’s always turned out, it will be interesting to see you will see in the exhibition’s historical exhibits, such CO: Claire Ashley’s contribution is a large-scale inflatable henry-moore.org the risk of something breaking, but the what Tate St Ives commissions as its next as Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte-en-valise (1935-41/1968), sculpture incorporating elements of children’s toys. Free to all pay-off is definitely worth it.’ The colour prize-money-funded project. 4 Winter 2020 Art Quarterly Art Quarterly Winter 2020 5 94 Spring 2020 Art Quarterly Art Quarterly Spring 2020 95 AQ.Winter20.AGENDA.01PMHSPM2VRFINAL.indd 4 10/11/2020 09:28 AQ.Winter20.AGENDA.01PMHSPM2VRFINAL.indd 5 10/11/2020 09:28
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