J.
Hackson
Clod
Magazine Issue 19
This
exhibition is a magazine; the fifty pictures in the show are the fifty
pages that make up Clod Magazine Issue 19.
The idea behind it was to reduce a magazine to a single one-off piece of work.
Unlike
mass publication, the original master copy is more important than the
printed run. Magazines usually, and intentionally, deal in multiple
runs, so to have one main copy as the focus of attention would help
to make Clod Magazine look more out of kilter, and less capitalistic,
in an increasingly capitalistic and inclusive age. (Clod Magazine has
a history of being on the margins of style, popularity, taste and humour).
The 50
pages are primarily works in colour and composition, and contain no
real text. However, as with the ‘word’ editions of Clod
Magazine, they show an editing process; from the stage of finding the
discarded bits of paper, (fragments have come from streets and pavements
all over Europe), to their presentation as collages.
The exotic
glamour of the locations of the found bits and pieces, is in contrast
to the filthy nature of the absolute waste that the collages are made
of. When people think of Paris or Vienna, they don’t tend to associate
them with a lost cigarette paper in dirt, and/or shit. The show-boating
of art doesn’t seem to be operating in this series of collages.
The frames were deliberately picked up secondhand, and as cheaply as possible. This was to stress the feeling of alchemy at work in the unsung value of such damaged and rubbished materials.
J.Hackson
Clod Magazine |
Saturday 19 January 2013
J. Hackson Clod Magazine Issue 19
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