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studio 1.1 is presenting a group show (one hundred artists and counting) - GROTTO - which takes Christmas by the throat and wrings the last drop of commercial art from it.
In an anti-curatorial experiment we are planning a hang of anything up to 200 works that, regardless of size, will also pay scant regard to whatever hangs or stands beside them. We are hanging the show 'blind'. There is no privileged position: - what you see is what we got.
Is the work or your stomach strong enough?
Do the artists dare? How dare we?
We will include video, sculpture, painting, installation, whatever you can think of on the grounds that it brooks all and every 'interference'.
Where did this notion of interference come from? Was it in any case an arrogance of cold war CIA -fuelled self-expressionists (God Bless 'em)? Hasn't it out-lived its usefulness? Or has it been relaunched, rebranded quite perversely as intertextualism (sic)? Playing its part in accelerating the decay of magic and the rise of the pointlessly grotesque? Post-post modern, post ironic, post everything, in fact lost in the Christmas post...
LET'S SWITCH THE LIGHTS OFF ON OXFORD STREET.
- I bring a message from your master Marcus Licinius Crassus,
- Commander of ltaly.
- Your lives are to be spared.
- Slaves you were...and slaves you remain.
- But the terrible penalty of crucifixion has been set aside...
- on the single condition that you identify the body...
- or the living person of the slave called 'Grotto Artist'.
- I'm Grotto Artist!
- I'm Grotto Artist!
- I'm Grotto Artist!
- I'm Grotto Artist!
- Forgive me, Your Nobility. There's an ugly rumour going round the
- camp that the prisoners are to be crucifiied.
- That is true.
- Perhaps this is the moment to remind Your Highness that yesterday
- you promised me I could be the agent in their auctioning.
- Last night you promised Grotto Artist to me! Where is he? In return,
- I promised you the sale of the survivors... and there will be none!
Wendy Anderson Chris Gomersall Jonathan Parsons
Craig Andrews Clare Goodwin Eduardo Padilha
Helene Appel Nicola Gray Eddie Peake
Riccardo Arena Sarah Grainger-Jones Fabian Peake
Rafat Asad Danny Greaney Lyle Perkins
Oliver Bancroft Simon Greenacre David Porter
Phyllida Barlow Oona Grimes Kristin Posehn
Mike Bartlett Sharon Hall Henrik Potter
Richard Bateman Ramin Haerizadeh Sacha Powell
Amanda Benson Paul Harper Jennifer Raingold
Vanessa Billy Stephen Harwood Simon Rattigan
Gary Blakemore Russell Herron Dai Roberts
Katrina Blannin Justin Hibbs Anne Robinson
Anna Boggon John Hollingsworth Ruth Rogers
Christopher Bond Jefford Horrigan Robert Rush
Alex Bowen Alex Hudson Rafael Sanchez
Peter Busk Vanessa Jackson David Small
Tom Chamberlain Fiona James Terry Smith
Simon Christopher Keran James Will Stein
Ed Clive Alison Jones Nicholas Stewart
Jay Cloth Kiran Kaur Kate Street
Andy Cohen Maisie Kendall Lars Sture
Louise Colbourne Annie Kevans John Summers
Marcus Cope Sara Leigh Lewis Damian Swarbrick
Patrick Coyle Caroline List Chooc Ly Tan
Will Cruickshank Ted Litchfield Lynton Talbot
Nick Davies Richard Livingston Hannah Terry
Tracy Davis Simon Logan Charlotte Thrane
Nick Dawes Cathy Lomax John Tiney
Julia Defferary Kate Lyddon David Treloar
Annabelle Dodds Girolamo Marri Emily Trotter
John Dougill Jordan McKenzie Anne Urquhart
Richard Ducker Ron Meerbeek Goya y Lucientes
Jason Dungan Bernadette Moloney Laura White
Ralph Dunn Stephanie Moran Munir Waked
Andrew Ekins Simon Morse Roxy Walsh
Ed Fellows Liz Murray Felicity Warbrick
Kim Fox J A Nicholls Joseph Watling
Nick Fox Fay Nicolson Rosie West
Patrick Galway Lena Nix Laura White
Paul Gillespie Gill Ord David Ben White
Denis Glaser Mark Owen Maria Zahle
Kirsten Glass Tom Owen We are all Grotto Artists
Studio 1.1
For more information or images contact:
Michael Keenan on 07952 986 696