ArtSlant maintains a calendar of exhibits and events in each ArtSlant city.
A rich resource for the artist, the collector, the curator and the art lover.
“Mindless Spot” is
the third and final part of the project:
La Commedia
(an
investigation on the impermanent work of art)
Spotless Mind (Paradiso)
Spotless (Change Of) Mind (Purgatorio)
Mindless Spot (Inferno)
This triptych was not
in Bimal’s plans at the opening of the first Spotless Mind Exhibition.
It has found its way slowly from the urge to investigate the different
potentiality of the work of art regarded as something apt to change and
develop in different directions.
Each show originates
from the same ideas provided by the same artists, ideas which Bimal uses as a
source of inspiration for “some kind of works of art” and takes to
completion. What changes is the attitude, the approach, different for every
exhibition.
“The Divine
Comedy of Art” can be narrated as the “evolution of the
spot”. Here it's about a real beauty spot which Bimal carries on his
left cheek.
While preparing the
invitation card for the launch of the gallery, a friend, looking at the
chosen photo, suggested that Bimal should look “more Indian”.
This advice was taken on and, with the aid of Photoshop, Bimal’s beauty
spot was removed from the cheek and placed in the centre of his forehead, in
the Indian fashion. But this was not the carnival Bimal wanted to play, so
the spot was removed from the forehead. Only after, someone noticed that in
the photo the spot was missing: the cheek had been published “spotless”.
Spotless Mind is a
first exhibition about a pure and fresh approach to art, a start full of
promises; the “Paradise” of our
Comedy, thinking in Dante’s terms, but starting from the end and moving
backwards.
Second comes Spotless
(Change Of) Mind, our “Purgatory”, where all works are recycled
and filled with doubts; they move place, shift from the original, sometimes
collapse, other times are done up again anew.
“Hell” is
being indicated as the Mindless Spot, and an exhibition about real, more or
less accidental facts of life that interfered in the making of the works and
are now revealed. The beauty spot that was removed is now shown, on the new
invitation card, and in each of the new works, taking to fruition what is
usually hidden behind and not shown. Occasional accidents, mistakes, violent
reactions, sins of all kinds are re-enacted in this third version of the
works. If Spotless (Change Of) Mind was about falling (of some mask?),
Mindless Spot is about revelation: It reveals the Spot, and carries the Guilt
inside the gallery and into each work.
Images must be in jpg, gif or png format and less than 5 megabytes in size.
After you finish adding or removing images, please click
reload to refresh the slideshow
1 person has recommended this exhibit
map
add to mylist
email
print
write a review
add a comment
add to del.icio.us
digg this
stumble it!
