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Whitechapel Auction

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A Bigger Splash Whitechapel auction at the London Art Fair

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17 Nov 2001

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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.

Modern Chairs

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A commission as part of the Centenary Exhibition

End Date

20 May 2001

Start Date

21 Mar 2001

Location

Whitechapel Art Gallery

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For the Centenary celebrations of the Whitechapel Gallery, we revisited the seminal furniture exhibition from 1970, entitled Modern Chairs 1918-1970. The exhibition was arranged by the Circulation Department at the Victoria and Albert museum under the curatorship of Carol Hogben.

The original exhibition and its installation was the first attempt in Britain of a wide ranging 'survey' of modern chairs, and in many ways prefigured the formation of the V & A's 'Boilerhouse' and London's Design Museum. Modern and 'classic' furniture was presented with all the display rhetoric of contemporary art. Chairs were elevated/reduced to objects of aesthetic or iconic status, their utility suspended.

While browsing the catalogue of the exhibition, we were suprised by how many of the selected chairs -several from the 1930's- are still in current production. We proposed to exhibit as many of the 'classic' café or dining chairs from the 1970 exhibition as it was possible to source.

But, in an attempt to reverse the polarity of the delicate tension engendered by the original exhibition, our chairs were to be exhibited in the Cafe space at the Whitechapel. Visitors would be able to 'use' the 'design classics' and consciously participate in the interface between art and life.

Buy the catalogue The Whitechapel Art Gallery Centenary Review

read Adrian Searle's review for the Guardian and visit Whitechapel

Labour Cinema

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Labour cinema entrance,
Whitechapel, London

Club Room from the entrance

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Club Room
installed at the Whitechapel, London

Whitechapel_auction Angel_detail

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Angel, detail
Whitechapel auction
London Art Fair 2001

Whitechapel_auction Angel

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Angel detail
Whitechapel auction
London Art Fair 2001

Whitechapel- auction

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The Whitechapel Auction
London Art Fair 2001

Whitechapel_auction Angel_brown

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Angel, detail
Whitechapel auction
London Art Fair 2001

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