110728 - It’s amazing how you just bump into people that you used to know. Yesterday I met someone I hadn’t seen for six years. And two weeks ago I managed to wonder into the exhibition of someone from the year above at school. His name’s Alex Chinneck, and the exhibition was named after the piece directly above - Fighting fire with ice cream. Like so many artists at the moment, he seems enamored with the lure of architecture and the poetics that it contains. By playing with domestic building materials, especially OSB, he lends them a painterlyness, while they give back a playfulness because of their usually rigid meanings. Of course these “rigid meanings” are quite easily subverted, and as with other art that deals with buildings, it sometimes comes across as a little glib. They seem more about the process than the end product. That said it’s interesting to see art interested in architecture, time to get architecture more interested in art.
