1%ers - Banality & Big Questions
February 18th to March 3rd 2011
Art supergroup, the 1%-ers - a gaggle of roaming artists, siphoned forth from other various collectives - present their debut exhibition, ‘Banality & Big Questions’ – helmed by curator Allan Binns.
Private View Thursday 17th February 7 - 9pm
Art supergroup, the 1%-ers - a gaggle of roaming artists, siphoned forth from other various collectives - present their debut exhibition, ‘Banality & Big Questions’ – helmed by curator Allan Binns.
As the title suggests, ‘Banality and Big Questions’ is an exploration (refracted through both singular and relative prisms) of the knotted relationship between the two paradoxical themes.
Throughout the forthcoming year (and hopefully beyond), the 1%-ers will tour ‘B&BQ’, intent on acting as a traveling soapbox for a listless generation - dissecting and prodding fun at life’s profane and profound, leaving more questions than answers in their meandering wake.
Curator Binns is hell-bent on superseding the totemic nature of the ‘umble art gallery by transmogrifying it into a vital space, an experience set in perpetual flux, an experience that can be ‘lived through’.
Sound may seep through walls like oil through a sponge and one artist’s work may bleed into that of another – such is the complexity of the dialogue being forcibly coaxed between every available entity.
The artist is not as important as the work, and the work is not as important as the whole.
99% need not apply.
The 1st leg of the 1%-ers’ touring exhibition kicks off at Nottingham’s Surface Gallery and will feature the work of;
Marie Bertram (Beta Test), Allan Binns (Bad Film Co.), Chris Cawkwell (Vanilla Galleries),Sam Etchell (Vanilla Galleries), Greg Evans (Vanilla Galleries), Emma Gamble, Chris Hill,Scott Illingworth, Paul Patrick Morrison (Vanilla Galleries) and Sam Taylor.
Private View Thursday 17th February 7 - 9pm
Artist talk with Paul Patrick Morrison Wednesday 23rd February 7pm