Second impressions at Te Tuhi-after doing some research on at least one of the artists involved
Last Saturday, I visited Te Tui Center again.
First thing, I checked the keyboard to prove it’s really workable for information searching. I was cheated last time and thought it as a “fake” thing.
After viewing all the “fake” art works,
I was impressed by Glen Hayward’s art works. The items such as cardboard box, fire extinguishers, plastic chair, painting equipments those are all hand made by wood. It’s interesting that he made the everyday stuffs with quite different material as usual. The most real-like art work is the cardboard box. It’s very successful as playing a character of “fake” in this exhibition. I did close inspection to prove it’s really “fake” in fact. The texture of surface is almost the same with paper-made. The folding cover is similar to an usual one from a cardboard box. Finally, I still recognized that those are all out of wood. Hayward’s sculpture are making joke with the viewer. It became a relationship about a game between the artist and the audience. We all involved and participated into the art form. Those art works seem to invite us to try to touch, hold or sit on them. If I sit on the plastic chair, I, myself, might become an art and add into Hayward’s sculpture. Can I say the work is a performace art? It’s a form of conceptual art. Thinking of it as art. Hayward’s pieces remind me that we see and think the world by our preconceptions. When the shape or material changed, we will see it as “fake’ or unacceptable.
It also remind me about Marcel Duchamp’s art work Fountain in 1917.It’s a readymade urinal. Duchamp changed it by 90 degree angle, and called it as the name of “Fountain”.
He had renovated the art form. A conceptual art. Fountain is regarded the most influential artwork of the 20 th century.
Last Saturday, I visited Te Tui Center again.
First thing, I checked the keyboard to prove it’s really workable for information searching. I was cheated last time and thought it as a “fake” thing.
After viewing all the “fake” art works,
I was impressed by Glen Hayward’s art works. The items such as cardboard box, fire extinguishers, plastic chair, painting equipments those are all hand made by wood. It’s interesting that he made the everyday stuffs with quite different material as usual. The most real-like art work is the cardboard box. It’s very successful as playing a character of “fake” in this exhibition. I did close inspection to prove it’s really “fake” in fact. The texture of surface is almost the same with paper-made. The folding cover is similar to an usual one from a cardboard box. Finally, I still recognized that those are all out of wood. Hayward’s sculpture are making joke with the viewer. It became a relationship about a game between the artist and the audience. We all involved and participated into the art form. Those art works seem to invite us to try to touch, hold or sit on them. If I sit on the plastic chair, I, myself, might become an art and add into Hayward’s sculpture. Can I say the work is a performace art? It’s a form of conceptual art. Thinking of it as art. Hayward’s pieces remind me that we see and think the world by our preconceptions. When the shape or material changed, we will see it as “fake’ or unacceptable.
It also remind me about Marcel Duchamp’s art work Fountain in 1917.It’s a readymade urinal. Duchamp changed it by 90 degree angle, and called it as the name of “Fountain”.
He had renovated the art form. A conceptual art. Fountain is regarded the most influential artwork of the 20 th century.
It is interesting to compare Hayward's work to Duchamp's Fountain, but in some ways, they are the very opposite of each other. Hayward's work requires intense physical labour, Duchamp's is just what we call "sleight of hand" - he grabs something, flips it, and makes it art. And yet, Hayward's work would not be so interesting if Duchamp's didn't exist, because they comment on what we might expect to be "lazy" art. You might really think that someone just left a cardboard box and called it art - because Duchamp did! TX
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