Museum and gallery texts (and Dana Schutz and Renaud Jerez)
Already on my other blog, the one about opera , I've mentioned Poppy Bullshit and Araminta Bollocks, characters in the UK's VIZ comic magazine . Poppy and Araminta are 'artmakers', and in one 2018 strip we find them gazing over their tea at a broken biscuit: 'Hmm... yes... that is challenging my preconceptions about the intrinsic nature of biscuits. It's a telling juxtaposition of form and content... I've always regarded Hobnobs as being round... And yet this one isn't. It's an artistic tour de force dripping with dramatic éclat...!' I forwarded it to half a dozen gallery-owners I know, as they were getting ready for that autumn's Paris art fair, the FIAC - as it was then. Here they are in a different edition, challenging our preconceptions of the office Christmas party: Visiting museums and galleries, I think we've all seen texts like this, or worse: (Artist's name) weaves concepts of subjective world building and collective narrativ