Pete & Repeat
Thinking, Thinking, Thinking.
What to buy, what to buy, what to buy. What to say, what to say, what to say.
The Zabludowicz collection, Camden 176 Prince of Wales street has given us another treat in an exhibition that balances on the circumference of ‘Repetition’ in this landmark 2009 exhibition ‘Pete & Repeat’. The show has already been going for well over a month and will end on December 13th.Next week!
Without distilling the already eloquently tackled subject of repetition in this exhibition with some kind of profound statement about ideas of modern 21st century mundanity and repetition, the work in show not only reflects a vast post-modernist outlook on the cycle of life and the representation of objects that profoundly makes us reflect on our own boundaries and comfortable routines.In this sublimely exciting exhibition space, which coincidentally is a retired chapel/church, we are presented with room after room after room of a consortium of photography, sculpture and film. It becomes our job to pick through and find the repetition in the concept and when we leave the space we are then left alone to find the repetition in our own self.
Thought of the week:
The gallery created a limited run of 500 handmade screen printed exhibition guides. The contents of which talk about notable artists like Paul Pfeitter - 24 landscapes and Bernd and hilla behar - Water Towers 1979 - 2005.
The book is a charmingly crafted homage to the great work in the show and also celebrates luminary writers that have already commented on the issue of repetition. Essay’s included are Samual Beckett’s - Molloy and the great Friedrich Nietzsche - Of Vision and The Riddle. By displaying these great writer’s the book shifts the experience of repetition from the gallery space to a very real and fluid notion. Making us re-think the simplicity of our life’s as a very automated system.After this read you will go forth and break free from the self expanding foam that is cushioning and impairing our freedom. Apparently we are free! Quote by Nietzsche.
‘Behold this gateway, dwarf!’ I went on: ‘it has two aspects. Two paths come together here: no one has ever reached their end’.‘This long lane behind us: It goes on for an eternity and that long lane ahead of us that is another eternity’.‘They are in opposition to one another, these paths: they abut on on another and it is here at this gateway that come together. The name of the gateway is written above it “Moment”. (Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus spoke zarathustra, Translated R.J, Hollingdale, penguin books, p.176 - 180 )Website Address - http://www.projectspace176.com/projects/pete-and-repeat/
Love & Peace.
Photography & Mash.