Installation Art

I was first inspired to construct an original work of art during a trip to the Saatchi Gallery in London, where I gained an appreciation of modern art at its finest, as demonstrated by Tracy Emin with My Bed and by a room full of 20:50 motor oil. Suitably smitten, I decided to create my own branch of the genre – Garage Sculpture – and now have the honour to unveil my newest creation, Teetering On The Brink, a work which has evolved in the deep recesses of my mind over many months of blue-cheese ingestion and which was completed in a dramatic display of artistic expression last Sunday afternoon. The central theme is the conceptualisation of space in the sense of ‘more of’ (i.e. to get the car in.) For some time now, the accumulation of domestic furniture, old paint cans and sundry detritus has expanded to fill the void, forming a profoundly negative access scenario of a vehicular nature. Bound impenetrably by the six planes of constraint (four walls, ceiling and floor), space/time itself seemed at risk of imploding. In order to bring light to this dark void, I freed two large sofas to a more comfortable and fulfilling future of domestic service in Guildford. What remained were the ingredients of my new sculpture, individually meaningless but when bound together by an irrational mind, probably the finest oeuvre ever laid.
The base of the work implies solidity and is formed from a small wooden unit acquired from one Auntie Audrey in olden times. Having seen service chez nous in recent years as a telephone table, it was cast aside to make way for a new television. Its inclusion here is a mark of appreciation for unstinting valiant service through the decades. The hint of peeling veneer perhaps indicating its own lachrymose acceptance of fate. Next, both vertically and sequentially, appears a refrigerator. Fully serviceable yet unwanted and unplugged, this appears as a savage indictment of our throwaway society. However, as a model of the ‘Beko’ variety, its Turkish manufacture also makes a positive statement of peace between Europe and Asia and sets an example to us all. Above this, we encounter the complex and unsettling coffee table, cantilevered as if to defy gravity but just held in place by a dolphin see-saw, a mere child’s outdoor toy. If the dolphin could speak, would it be demanding its own blog? The topping-off of the sculpture comprises pre-formed shapes of expanded polystyrene, solid yet flimsy, inviting the viewer to wonder what appliance these shapes once protected – and what became of the cardboard box that once constrained them. The enigma is thus complete.
Offers are invited from prospective purchasers of the work, which is available only in its single original form. Sealed bids, for not less than 25,000 Euros, should be forwarded to the webmaster by 1st April 2006. Free installation will be provided anywhere in England and Wales. Buyer to supply own Garage or corner of Gallery.
artistic links:
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/tracey_emin_resources.htm
http://thinkingaboutart.blogs.com/art/2005/01/saatchi_gallery.html