Sunday, June 19, 2016
Michael Beutler at Spike Island
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Making monumental art with unimpressive tools whose roots in the child-like art-n-crafts freedom of imagination are run amok fueled by grandeur: a work ethic showy while retaining its unpretentious strategies of the vernacular. Like Tuazon its interest is in the wonder of construction itself, but whereas Tuazon's protestant ethic posits a lot of somber logs Beutler seems interested in the impressive monumentality of structure itself, seeing your imagination huge and erect.
See too: Oscar Tuazon at Le Consortium & Paradise Garage, Chris Burden Metropolis II at LACMA
Labels:
Bristol,
Europe,
Institution,
Michael Beutler,
Spike Island,
United Kingdom