http://www.olivercloke.com Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:50:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.olivercloke.com/is-there-going-to-be-a-line-running-down-the-centre-of-tate-britain http://www.olivercloke.com/is-there-going-to-be-a-line-running-down-the-centre-of-tate-britain#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:27:07 +0000 admin http://olivercloke.com/?p=19  Martin Creed, a lovely
man I’m sure but I couldn’t help but observe his fascist style artwork tromping
thought the main artery of the Tate Britain. I present to you my evidence in
Hitler style bullet points. Number 1 and I quote from the literature carefully
placed in the walls ‘This work celebrates physicality and the human spirit.
Creed has instructed runners to sprint as if their lives depended on it.’ It
continues to describe the pause in the ‘neo classical gallery’ (something that
I can imagine Speer designing) as an ‘equivalent pause, like a musical rest’
which to me smacks of Wagner. I’m missing the Leni Riefensthal bit but you get
the idea… I did like the flip book though! Watching the video about Martin (I hope i’m allowed to call him that) he says bizzare things like “running is an exciting action, death is still”. I wonder where his mind took him when he was offered the space. Is it a really succinct artwork that i am reading too much into?If so I would like to ask is there going
to be a nice line running down the centre of the gallery and if so is that art
too?

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