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Arthur R. Rose | 54-58 Tanner Street | London | SE1 3PH |
1997 - 2000 |
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Arthur R. Rose is a fluid collective of artists initiating a variety of projects, exhibitions and publications. Formed initially in 1997 Arthur R. Rose operated from a project space in Bermondsey, London. The projects attempted to pass over the burdens of former concerns in favour of building a more relaxed, complex relationship with art society and audience. They attempt to provide apt and informative access to an emergent strategy of art practice. The strategy in question is broadly one of utilising systems for the informal production/ dissemination of artworks. It could be suggested that the routine task of the artist is to bring forth objects for perusal, representation and possible acquisition by collectors. The endless intention to produce and supply has resulted in saturation, monotony and homogeny. Arthur R. Rose discloses how some artists are persistently looking to be active and precipitate change across a social and political field.
Many of the projects highlight the fragile nature of the narrative structures we use to support our own beliefs. The gallery/ space, therefore, becomes just another vector within the imaginary. The various projects work as independent constructions, with a separate chronology, subjective conditions and, paradoxically, stand for an inevitable deficiency. They are located at the interces of invention and reception. Simultaneously, mobility and navigation appear as vital qualities in locating positions and creating awareness within a more social territory. Arthur R. Rose displays evidence of resistance, through default, to an overriding order. During 2000 Arthur R. Rose closed the project space (taking the gallery out of the equation) in order to operate nomadically.
The objective, now, is to initiate projects that test the familiar models of the exhibition and reception of art. Amidst the undercurrent, perhaps, we can operate as an interruptive device, a jolt, to the flow of things. It seeks to avoid established conventions in favour of some form of engagement that designates change.
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