surrogate

surrogate dummy 4

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detail from the collection
surrogate 1999

surrogate dummy 3

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detail from the collection
Surrogate 1999

surrogate dummy 2

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detail from the collection
Surrogate 1999

surrogate dummy 1

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Detail from the collection
Surrogate 1999

trade display technology

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Display technology
Przemysl 1995

trade buying

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The Market
Przemysl, Polish Ukranian border 1995

trade market

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The Market
Przemysl, Polish Ukranian border 1995

Whitechapel Auction

admin — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:24:45 +0100

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A Bigger Splash Whitechapel auction at the London Art Fair

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Start Date

17 Nov 2001

Location

London Art Fair

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We were asked by the Whitechapel Art Gallery London, to contribute an artwork to a charity auction, to raise funds for their public programme.

Each invited artist was supplied with water colour paper, paints and brushes.

We decided to make an artwork that would be very, very desirable to future owners and collectors. Therefore we meticulously copied reproductions, of two Gary Hume paintings from the catalogue of the extremely popular Whitechapel exhibition in 2000; his Angel, series.

The imagery is based on the artist's photographs of enormous concrete angels on the ceiling of the Catholic Cathedral in Brasilia. Following his usual practice, he enlarged and traced the imagery in order to generate the outlines that structure his sumptuous, sexy abstracted paintings of flat, gloss, and high-key colour. We reversed the process, sort of, by tracing photographic reproduction of the paintings and making watercolour equivalents.

The paintings are beautiful, they look like Gary Hume's, and most visitors thought they were Gary Hume's. They did extremely well for the Whitechapel at auction..........

One was bought by a collector and later given to the retiring director of the Whitechapel, Catherine Lampert as a gift; the other was hastily purchased by Gary Hume's gallerist, Jay Joplin of White Cube, to keep the painting out of the market-place.

artists who kindly donated work to A Bigger Splash include; Fiona Banner, David Batchelor, Sonia Boyce, Tony Bevan, Ian Davenport, Peter Doig, Tracey Emin, Mark Francis, Anya Gallaccio, Cathy de Monchaux, Paul Morrison, Paul Noble, Chris Ofili, Julian Opie, Grayson Perry, Bob & Roberta Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans, Shafique Uddin, Jessica Voorsanger, Rachel Whiteread, Alison Wilding, and Paul Winstanley.

Surrogate: An Economy

admin — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:41:46 +0100

Sub-Title

Chance Films in association with Jason Pidd

Date of Publication

November 1999

Body

As our experience is colonised by a culture of retail, we are forced to evolve into ever more discerning consumers. Everything is experienced in a subtle relationship to other extremely similar objects. A delicate play of similarity and difference structures the equally rarefied economies for the appreciation of paintings, antique furniture, as well as lipsticks and training shoes.

Anything can be singular, yet simultaneously bedded down into a seamless flow of precedents and antecedents. To be singular is the longing which haunts every artifact, hence the endless loop of 'original recipe', 'limited edition' and 'only surviving' as contemporary objects struggle to imaginatively reconstruct their, and our lost origins. The presence of the singular -even as an idea- authorises the joy of self possession implicit in every act of ownership.

In every substitution -object for object, object to subject or object for sign- and whatever the category of exchange - extracting a profit, repaying a debt, giving a gift or receiving an inheritance- is the extrusion of value. Objects are always tokens for something else. Through endless replacement, infinite substitution, and constant translation, values -values of all kinds- assume a form; and it's these object-forms which allow differences in value to be experienced.

In association with Jason Pidd

mpg4 version coming soon..........

Duration

60 min

Format

VHS/PAL

Whitechapel_auction Angel_brown

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Angel, detail
Whitechapel auction
London Art Fair 2001

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