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{Sorry Picasso}
2015
1000 retrieved online searches
Sorry Picasso comprises a slide show of 1000 definitions of art, harvested from chat rooms, websites and discussion threads across the Internet and displayed on a continuous loop with a run time of over 4 hours. Lovingly and heroically formatted, alphabetised and annotated, the display is by turns immersive, humorous and frustrating. Playing slowly but insistently in the corner of the library, Sorry Picasso creates a seemingly endless philosophical debate about the concept of ‘Art’. Passions run high: as well as the serious and the theoretical, the definitions are sometimes heartfelt and very personal; at other times they are quarrelsome, witty and provocative. A conversation in which no-one can agree, no single definition can suffice; yet, in its totality Sorry Picasso paradoxically succeeds in capturing and celebrating the multiple possibilities for art. The extended duration and sustained pitch of the work are important. Difficult to view in one sitting, it is instead something to dip in and out of, and in so doing the viewer oscillates between the realms of abstract theory and tangible reality.
Exhibited at Leeds College of Art, Leeds as part of Library Interventions curated by Nick Norton
1000 retrieved online searches
Sorry Picasso comprises a slide show of 1000 definitions of art, harvested from chat rooms, websites and discussion threads across the Internet and displayed on a continuous loop with a run time of over 4 hours. Lovingly and heroically formatted, alphabetised and annotated, the display is by turns immersive, humorous and frustrating. Playing slowly but insistently in the corner of the library, Sorry Picasso creates a seemingly endless philosophical debate about the concept of ‘Art’. Passions run high: as well as the serious and the theoretical, the definitions are sometimes heartfelt and very personal; at other times they are quarrelsome, witty and provocative. A conversation in which no-one can agree, no single definition can suffice; yet, in its totality Sorry Picasso paradoxically succeeds in capturing and celebrating the multiple possibilities for art. The extended duration and sustained pitch of the work are important. Difficult to view in one sitting, it is instead something to dip in and out of, and in so doing the viewer oscillates between the realms of abstract theory and tangible reality.
Exhibited at Leeds College of Art, Leeds as part of Library Interventions curated by Nick Norton