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MY FIRST TINY SHITTY BUT CUTE WORKS......:

Author: Cecilia Anesi
Title: Spectacle or Art?

On Wednesday the 25th of October, I quickly crossed the main corridor of the Tate Britain (and I felt a bit guilt not to have the time to loose myself in that epically huge space) to spray my being into a unique visual milieu: the five rooms containers of the Turner Prize 2006. It is a very discussed and criticized prize, which sees involved four main British artists displaying recent and new works.
This year's prize fund is £40,000 with £25,000 going to the winner and £5,000 each for the other three artists, thanks to the Gordon's ® gin’ support. Channel 4 will be in charge of proclaims the winner, at the Tate Britain, on December the 4th . The Prize is awarded, since 1984, to a British artist under fifty for both an astounding exhibition and other dazzling presentations all along precedents twelve months. It is internationally acclaimed as one of the most imperative and prestigious awards for the visual arts and the news developments of contemporary expressions in the whole Europe.
But let me focus back on me. Me/ stepping into that mind-blowing space. A big glass gate/a step is keeping me away from the charmed imaginative reality created by the four artists. As soon as the gate opened I walked in, suddenly black words on a wall trapped my attention. It is Mark Titchner’s testament of How To Change Behaviour (Tiny Masters Of The World Come Out) installation. They are Psionic instruments – useful for the art of manipulating psychic abilities. The sculptures that adorn the space are called Admist magnet machine, the viewer must step inside, breath and focus: “your will, let the hidden torrent burst forth and the world be reshaped”. The artist is aware that the viewer is pushed to “live” his artworks, since is asked to do something that normally in none gallery is demanded nor allowed. He combines in an amazingly harmonious composition new technologies and old techniques, raw materials such as carved wood and new media such as “computer designed billboard alongside hand-chiselled quasi-magical contraptions”. His art is pretty focused on behaviour and tensions between different belief systems of our society, whether religious, scientific or political. The testament ends with “Do not believe in your abilities, manifest them”, facing an enormous poster that proclaims: Tiny Masters Of The World Come Out. Moving towards, the visitor will be welcomed from a totally different environment: the world of clay, that Rebecca Warren manipulates with her free creativity. The clay is sculpted with ideas of self-expression, gender, nature, while her bronze works explore the degradation of the established form, while her wall-based vitrines are profoundly different from the rest of her works and their raw-vitality: they enclose various detritus collected in and around her studio. The space that follows is decorated with Tomma Abts’ works, rigorous geometrical painting that integrate the rational and intuitive creative pushes of the artist. Among the white walls of the gallery, physical surface and the form fight and find their harmonic resolution. The viewer now had gone through three extremely different environments, and he will feel ready to step into the last one: the weirdest one for many, since concern video-art, video-installation and the re-construction of a show room. That is Phil Collins art, which investigates the ambivalent relationship of men with camera, camera as a tool of attraction, manipulation, revelation and shame at the mean time. He works on documentary, canal that shows the discrepancy between reality and its representation. “A cycle of no redemption” splashed on screen: the return of the real / gercegin geri donusu. Dark room in blu veiled – the visitor thinks he finally got rid of this bizarre art exposition, but he will find himself facing shady lane Production – a research office which display the pragmatic cathartic sentence that completes the entire exhibition: Turner Prize is Spectacle. It does not really matter who is going to be the winner of the money, in contrast important will be who will impress us, challenge our ideologies and preconceptions of reality, the artist who will turn our rationality into sensations. The winner will be, in the end, who will manage to caress in the most velvety and intriguing way the inner part of most of visitors.