Copy
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archived
22 Aug
–
2 Sep
2001
Kent Bell
Kent Bell’s work Copy was produced in the biggest NZ city and referenced the ‘big brother’ culture of today.
There was a surveillance video playing on a small monitor, showing the interior of an art gallery. (This image was not of Enjoy, but of an Auckland dealer gallery). The video showed the stealthy removal of three McCahon-esque paintings by a balaclava-clad man.
At the opposite end of the Enjoy space were three wooden sculptures carved with a chainsaw, which on inspection, appeared to be large, solid moneybags. Galleries make big money. Galleries hold big money. Galleries represent big money.
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Interested in new and experimental artists attacking the boundaries of contemporary art, the Damage series (September – June 2001) sought to delineate some of the current grounds of confrontation through experimental and subversive work.