J. M. W. Turner
( Self portrait, 1799 )
Quite possibly turning in his grave at. . .
One of the four shortlisted entries to this year’s ageist Turner Prize; sculpture by Rebecca Warren.
Read the way these sterile homogenised hulks of ugly are eulogized to high heaven and given artistic justification in a way that only pseudo-intellectual self-important fascist art toffs such as this troup could ever hyperbole.
The talking heads members of the Turner Prize 2006 jury.
(A guaranteed creative-free zone)
Lynn Barber, writer, The Observer
Margot Heller, Director, South London Gallery
Matthew Higgs, Director and Chief Curator, White Columns, New York
Andrew Renton, writer and Director of Curating, Goldsmiths College
Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate and Chairman of the Jury ( what grey big boss says goes )
” Rebecca Warren
For her exuberant sculptural installations as seen in her solo exhibitions at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, and Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, and for her contribution to the Tate Triennial 2006. Her works combine a wide range of sources with a strong formal awareness, injecting conventional materials with a sensual physicality to create something wholly new. ”
“Strong formal awareness” – now what might that exactly mean? And since when was day centre pottery class-pile or lumpen plasticine playschool-grotesque; “wholly new”?
All Serota’s pompous-arsed entrenched clique seem to know how to do well is court media controversy via cheap tit n’ ass shock-shots such as Warren’s hideous spew, promoted to swell the Tate turnstile cashbox with the gullible public’s hard-earned.
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Another of the four shortlisted artists, the abstract painter Tomma Abts, is selected on the basis of works such as this. . .
Mehm, 2005
Quoting from the Tate website,
” . . .Through her intimate and compelling canvases she builds on and enriches the language of abstract painting”
Compare that with this work by L. Moholy-Nagy, painted 78 years previously.
A19, 1927
It’s not easy to see what’s being “built on” and “enriched” in the abstract painting tradition here, except perhaps hype and imitation?
MSM
LONDON DADA 
All I can see is tits and arse, have I had too much drink or what? we have girls like this at our local Co-op, they are girls ain’t they? the ones in the picture I mean not the ones at the Co-op I know they’re girls because I can see most of the bits that girls have poking out of their clothing or rather lack of it, where’s me Brandy? ooer nearly empty ah well it’s whiskey or Guinness, I’ll come back later and see if the picture looks any better.
Regards, Bradders
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The “formal” balloon ass in the foreground has great comedy value in itself, but when it looks like it’s roller-skating around the room as well, well. . .
yowwwww! yowwwww! I nearly rolled off keeper’s computer desk in catmirth.
yours
CATHEAD
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Oh Michael! (actually that sounds a bit Kenny Everett-ish)
The explanation is simple;
“strong formal awareness” means that she knows what class she’s in at school.
“wholly new” means just what it says on the Plasticine wrapper, ie the plasticine hadnt been used by a classmate before.
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Ah haa Denny. I was looking up to discover something, when all the time I should have been looking . . down.
Them little rascals!
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Since when was “Judy Finnegan – Still (a)Life” Art?
Dear me.
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Don’t take me there don’t take me there . . . . too late, the nausea rises.
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