Frenzy
29 July – 1 September 2006
The Metropole Galleries
Folkestone
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FRENZY – L’ART DÉCORATIF D’AUJOURD’HUI
Even the highly cultivated allergy to kitsch, ornament, the superfluous, and anything reminiscent of luxury has an aspect of barbarism (1)
Frenzy- L’Art décoratif d’aujourd’hui is an exhibition that explores the often fraught relationship between ornamentation and contemporary art practice. The exhibition has been conceived as a response to the Edwardian Rococo interior of the Metropole gallery: A confection of Empire pomp and circumstance, contained beneath a layer of regulation Art Gallery whitewash, the result somewhere between Regency stucco and ‘dynamic’ 21st century modernity.
Decoration is essentially superfluous. Added at the end the decorative plaster tracery on the walls of the Metropole gallery have no structural function. It has no purpose other than to distract the eye. A visual artifice it conceals and distracts as it winds its way across the surface. The decorative line is wasteful spilling out with unnecessary flourishes and curlicues.
Against this backdrop, Frenzy- L’Art décoratif d’aujourd’hui seeks to present a no less than engaged critique of Art’s function, through an exploration of decoration’s superfluous extravagance, it’s corrosively pretentious articulation of hierarchy and through ornament’s much vaunted criminal ‘otherness’.(2)
The participating artists have been invited to consider the role of decoration within their work and to encounter the luxurious context of the gallery. Frenzy will flirt with the unnecessary, excessive and distracting diversions of Folkestone’s Metropole.
The tasks of our century, so strenuous, so full of danger, so violent, so victorious, seem to demand of us that we think against a background of white… Once you have put ripolin on your walls you will be master of yourself. And you will want to be precise, to be accurate, to think clearly… (3)
The exhibition will be accompanied by a website and a series of essays.
Curated by Alex Schady
Participating artists:
Guy Beckett, Charlotte Bonham-Carter, Michael Curran, Fiona Curran Michelle Deignan, Edward Dorrian, Rochelle Fry, Mathew Hale, Denise Hawrysio, Marc Hulson, Hadas Kedar, Serena Korda, Peter Lamb, Cedar Lewisohn, Sally Morfill, Susan Morris, Esther Planas, Alex Schady, Mark R Taylor Mary Mclean, Louisa Minkin, Yve Lomax, Michael Watson
1 Theodor W. Adorno Aesthetic Theory translated by Robert Hullot-Kentor p61
2 Adolf Loos ‘Ornament and Crime’ First published in French in Les Cahiers d’Aujourd’hui in June 1913, from a talk given in Vienna in 1910, and was reprinted in L’Espirit nouveau, 1920
3 Le Lait de Chaux: La Loi Du Ripolin (A Coat of Whitewash: The Law of Ripolin) Le Corbusier The Decorative Art of Today, translated by James I. Dunnett (London: The Architectural Press, 1987) pxxvi. First published as L’Art décoratif d’aujourd’hui (Paris: Editions Crés, 1925)
Funded by:
Arts Council England South East; Esmee Fairbairn, Holiday Extras, Kent County Council & Shepway District Council,