Dimensions: support: 2442 x 3665 mm
Copyright: © Michael Craig-Martin | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Looking at Michael Craig-Martin's "Knowing", with its everyday objects floating on a red background, I'm struck by the bold simplicity. What's your take? Curator: Craig-Martin challenges us to consider the social life of objects. How do these brightly colored, seemingly mundane items – a chair, a bucket, a globe – reflect our cultural values and anxieties? Are they symbols of accessibility, knowledge, or perhaps consumerism? Editor: That's a great point. Curator: The placement of these objects feels deliberate, doesn’t it? It begs us to question the relationships between them and the messages they convey. Editor: Definitely food for thought. I hadn't considered how political the everyday could be. Curator: Exactly! Art can be found in unexpected places.
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In Knowing, Craig-Martin has painted meticulously accurate representations of household items that appear at once convincingly real and highly artificial. They are arranged in a formation that seems to recede into the distance. Each object's actual size has been adapted to reinforce that impression. This contradicts what we know to be true of their relative real sizes, the ladder appearing smaller than the fire extinguisher, which is in turn smaller than the torch. Gallery label, August 2004
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