{"id":185,"date":"2013-10-21T18:31:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T18:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimricks.info\/jrp\/?p=185"},"modified":"2020-06-27T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:06:09","slug":"sluice-art-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimricks.info\/jrp\/2013\/10\/21\/sluice-art-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Sluice Art Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sluice Art Fair<\/strong>
presents Nina Amazing, Maggie Madden, Jim Ricks<\/strong> and Marcel Vidal<\/strong>
19 \u2013 20 October 2013
London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The work of Nina Amazing<\/a>, Maggie Madden<\/a>, and Marcel Vidal<\/a>, with daily performances by Toby Caldicott as organised and conceived by Jim Ricks<\/a>, was shown at Sluice Art Fair in London this October 19 \u2013 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This exhibition focuses on the artists related methodologies. Each work and each artist appropriates and reworks found images and materials into thoughtful sculptural installations, detailed watercolours, digital collages, and a piece in which the participant joins in rap subculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nina Amazing is a cancer researcher\u2013cum\u2013artist based in Galway, Ireland. A genuine outsider to the artworld, Amazing\u2019s practice is an ongoing series of monumental digital collage narratives where Spandex-clad fictional characters face off with \u2018derailed\u2019 popular icons in a decadent, disturbing and fantastic world of her making that make reference to Geocities, fitness advertisements, tabloids, and historical battle paintings<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using everyday materials Maggie Madden create specific works in response to the spaces she installs in. With considered assembly, recycled materials are reassembled to redefine space and their own identities. Rubber wall base strips cuts vertically to the ceiling and collects on the floor. The literal use of framing to create a \u2018line drawing\u2019 in this installation elusively detourns the traditional gallery architecture of the cube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marcel Vidal’s practice focuses on drawing, sculpture and building site-specific installations that are imbued with iconography. Stunning and technically adept watercolours which are equal parts allure and repulsion to luxury, glamour, and fame. He places himself as the creator of the ultimate adept fan art in this series of Tumblr Famous girls. Exploring illusion, vanity, fame, leaders and followers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toby Caldicott is a television art director and professional tattoo artist. In Wu Tang Forever<\/em> Free WuTang tattoos are provided to members of the public. The relational performance was organised and conceived by Jim Ricks. This piece works with issues of the imitation, permissionless, subcultures, memes, divergence, and doppelg\u00e4ngers and asks can Wu Tang Clan sue its fans for ripping off their logo if its tattooed on their bodies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Sluice, “Further response to \u2018Repositioning the Visual Arts\u2019<\/a>“, February 4, 2014, by Karl England
\u2022 Image Daily, \u201cArt For Whose Sake?<\/a>\u201d, November 12, 2013, by Georgia Corcoran
\u2022 The Daily Quirk, \u201cSluice Art Fair Review<\/a>\u201d, October 28, 2013, by Austin McFadden
\u2022 Londonist, \u201cSluice Art Fair \u2013 Breaking The Mould<\/a>\u201d, October 6, 2013, by Tabish Khan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marcel Vidal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Maggie Madden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nina Amazing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim Ricks ‘Wu-Tang Forever’ with Toby Caldicott <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim Ricks ‘Wu-Tang Forever’ with Toby Caldicott <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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