~MARTIN CREED: FLOORS & WALLS
‘MARTIN CREED’
opened NOV 8, 2013
the show runs thru DEC 21, 2013
GAVIN BROWN’S ENTERPRISE – 620 GREENWICH ST, WEST SIDE, NYC.
flashback:
if the explicit video loop in MARTIN CREED’S last show, came across as a ‘manual on human reproduction’, taking place inside a space ship; the other part of the exhibit, a custom ‘floor’ was . . a totally ‘inverted’ gallery experience.
there was NO product on the walls.
there was NO art on the formal white gallery walls.
there was just . . this gorgeous floor.
the consistently striped design of contrasting marble, was the ART.
how it ‘ran’ through the gallery space was – the ART. .
‘gravity’ was thrown under the bus, again.
literally, in that you walked on .. the art.
you were walking on – what you could buy.
if I remember correctly you could commission this floor to be laid down in your own house, office, lobby. whatever.
would I want that ? you bet.
in the NEW EXHIBIT, 2013:
MARTIN CREED, ‘Work No. 1697’, 2013. Brick and mortar, 156 x 156 x 12 in.
so, I bring up the past .. to help make sense of the present.
a vast wall, as opposed to a floor. but it’s still: SPATIAL PLAY.
this is the same piece, seen from a different vantage point.
a brick wall, a very simple context in principle . . is made to perform in a very dynamic and surprising way.
and that’s the beauty of MARTIN CREED’s work . . in a nutshell.
ARCHIVAL PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH. JUNE 2, 2001. NEW YORK CITY
CURRENT PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH. NOV 8, 2013. NEW YORK CITY.