Online exhibitions

Shop + Office

This artwork interrogates the term ‘Emerging Artist’ and the conviction that an artist should make progress as time passes. The financial world operates according to the same principles and employs the same language, assuming that investments must ...

Shop + Office

The concept was advanced in reaction to the space and unsaleability of the artist’s work in its current form.

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Shop + Office

ROOM 2

“A brass line in the pavement denotes which part of the ground belongs to the borough and which is the private property of the corporate foyer it fronts. There are certain creative, social and political problems ...

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Idéfix Bloc is a pseudonymous collective identity adopted uniquely for the purpose of this exhibition. Operating between a collective and a cell, Idéfix Bloc aims to offer alternative models for the conception and production of cultural objects.

Shop + Office

In its de-individuating, collegiate method of practice, Idéfix Bloc seeks to develop a more direct critique of the process of cultural production in contemporary society.

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After the show, Idéfix Bloc will disband ready to coalesce as a new identity solely when circumstances seem favourable.

Project archive and web resource at: www.idefixbloc.eu

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Installation text:

The installation in this room has been designed as a means of presenting an artwork - the 'Emerging Artist Derivative Contract'. It is both an art work and a financial device. it works as follows: the buyer ...

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The gallery office you are looking at is not in its usual place. It has been moved here from its old location, which is hidden from view. Despite its transportation into a public space, the typical purpose, function and execution of this office's business remains. ...

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The typical transaction between artist, collector and gallerist has been altered. The exchange of the art work has been separated from the exchange of money and deferred for ten years. During this ten year period, the 'Emerging Artist' will have grown and ...

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In the meantime, the contract exists as a substitute artwork and as a sign of things yet to come.