Banalarama
A collection of boring artwork
May 5th to May 10th 2009
Banalarama is a festival of the mundane; a celebration of the passage through boredom into fascination; and is a collective exhibition showcasing the work of 8 Nottingham based artists.
An assortment of humorous and conceptually based work has been specifically commissioned for this exhibition - the only pre-requisite being that; whether video, painting, sculpture or photograph; the work must be unequivocally boring. Banalarama promises to be an intelligently considered, subtly ironic exhibition that can be taken as a critique of the arbitrariness of Art or can be seen to simply rejoice in the ridiculous. Above all else, Banalarama celebrates just some of the wealth of young, creative talent that the fine city of Nottingham has to offer.
We would love for you to join us in raising a glass to the quotidian. The private view will take place between 6-9pm on the 5th of May at the Surface Gallery, Nottingham.
Essays
Banalarama
Can art be boring? Art is the opposite of boring, it is about discovery and creativity, in fact art is perhaps something which stems from boredom almost like a cure. Banalarama fuses these two opposites together using the idea of the banal as a subject for art, the exhibition is almost like the results of some sort of science experiment ‘what happens when two things collide?’