Monday, 17 December 2012

Visiting lecture series - Cedar Lewisohn

Cedar Lewisohn Is an artist and curator based in London. Between 2005 and 2011 he worked at Tate, where he curated the exhibition Street Art in 2008 and co-curated the exhibition Rude Britannia in 2010. He also curated numerous large scale public projects for Tate and was assistant curator of the exhibition Dali and Film. In 2010 he co-curated the UK touring exhibition Orbitecture and in 2012 he curated the exhibition Les Fleur de Mal at the BWA Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland. In 2008 he wrote the book, Street Art: The Graffiti Revolution (Tate), and in 2011 his book Abstract Graffiti was published by Merrell.

I truly failed to connect with this guy, He was all me me me and appeared to be primarily defending what he believes which in all fairness was total tripe. His views were blinkered and unlike most artists that I have met was completely closed to any discussion which challenged his beliefs. Maybe the arty lot got something out of it but certainly not me.

the general gist was:

This is street art

This however, is NOT!

You try and get your head round that one because I certainly can't!


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