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ILCK launch CCA website

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

We’re delighted with the look of our lastest website for CCA in Glasgow.

The site was built with a bespoke calendar / events module which allows CCA to add events quickly and easily, but also deals with complex issues of recurring events, times, prices, and showcases image galleries, videos, audio and music files.

See it for yourselfÂ http://www.cca-glasgow.com

Tags: art, CCA, websites
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Rachel Whiteread's Village

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

I have always loved Rachel Whiteread’s work and this new installation at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts is really intriguing. At first glance I didn’t get the connection with her previous work as it looks so different. However, what’s particularly interesting is the fact that all these doll houses are empty, stripped bare, with stains, torn wallpaper and are displayed as they were found, worn and old. The only addition to the houses are the electric lights that light them all.

They are all second hand and Rachel Whiteread has been collecting them for the last 20 years. Although the spaces are empty they are haunted by their past lives. You think of the children who played with them, the dads that made them and the generations that perhaps they were passed down. The more I think about it, the more I realise it plays with the same themes as “house” – her concrete cast of the complete interior of a London terrace house. The domestic empty spaces that froze in time memories of the past.

Mmmmh – interesting.

Tags: art
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Birdhouses for Dictators

Monday, October 20th, 2008

I saw this on the Creative Review blog and thought it was quite fun. Artists Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson (of London Fieldworks) have created these bird houses based on the elaborate and very often OTT buildings dictators commissioned in their lives to commemorate their inflated sense of self importance.

Gilchrist & Joelson plan to make a film of the native and non-native birds that settle in to these grand bird pallaces and observe how they fit in to their new homes. I wonder if they start bossing the other birds around?

A birdhouse based on Mussoliniâ€™s Palazzo della CiviltÃ Italiana in Kingâ€™s Wood, Kent in England

$Show home based on Ceausescu\'s People\'s Palace in Bucharest$

The first is based on Mussoliniâ€™s Palazzo della CiviltÃ Italiana and the second is based on Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescuâ€™s Palace of Parliament in Bucharest, Romania.

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Beck’s Canvas

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Becks have long been a supporter of British contemporary art, but a new project they’re undertaking called Beck’s Canvas will really bring art to the masses. They have asked for RCA graduates to submit a piece of work that can be printed onto the side of their bottles and then distributed to all whom drink their beer. I think this is a really interesting idea, as although the gallery is the most common way to display visual art, it has it’s drawbacks, most notably only a few brave souls will ever actually enter into the art gallery and I imagine most people find the gallery’s contents aren’t worth seeing anyway.

So 4 graduates have been picked and soon their work will be in the public’s realm so it’ll be interesting to see how well it goes down (the art that is, not the beer).