Bob + Roberta Smith   Bob + Roberta Smith present, The Art Amnesty 11 october - 11 november, 2002 opening, friday 11 october, 7-9pm after-opening event featuring performances by: brian dewan, david kramer, bob + roberta smith @ Union Pool, #484 union avenue, 10p (corner of meeker, by the BQE)     Sign this card and bring it with you to Pierogi and you will receive a special "I AM NO LONGER AN ARTIST" badge. A call to Artists. Pack it in. Bob and Roberta Smith are delighted to offer this Amnesty for your Bad Art. Turn in your brushes and video cameras. Hand in your chisels and marble. If you think of yourself as an artist then step back and consider the last time you sold something (if you ever have), who turned up to your NEA-funded performance? Why you opened your studio and exactly who was interested? For Gods sake get a life, and more importantly GET A F***CKING PROPER JOB. ARTISTS. PACK IT IN. HAND OVER YOUR DUD WORK, EASELS AND MATERIALS AT PIEROGI. One dumpster load of work will be disposed of at the end of the Amnesty— Don't miss a life changing opportunity. —Bob and Roberta Smith with support from the British Council.       installation view         installation view           installation view           installation view       press release BOB and ROBERTA SMITH present The Art Amnesty Pierogi is extremely pleased to present a second New York solo exhibition of British artists, Bob and Roberta Smith. This time the Smiths offer a five-week Amnesty for Bad Art. Theirs is a call to artists to Pack it In. Anyone who brings in a piece of Bad Art and signs the card—I PROMISE NEVER TO MAKE ART AGAIN—will receive a special "I AM NO LONGER AN ARTIST" badge. For those who arrive sans artwork, there will be materials on site to create a "last drawing" which will then be displayed in the gallery. For larger works there will be a dumpster on the street in front of the gallery. Only artwork determined to be genuine artwork, and genuinely bad, will be accepted for the dumpster. At the end of the first week, one dumpster load will be disposed of. The gallery installation will also include colorful text banners with pithy quotes such as: "Artists Ruin It for Everybody," "Vito Acconci Is a Wanker," "Henry Moore Never Had an Original Idea," and "Valerie Solanis Had the Right Idea." The Art Amnesty is an attempt to look at the motivations of artists. Why are some people artists while others are not? Was Beuys an idiot? Do artists think they are cut above the rest of us? The paradox being that the whole thing is about making art. While the SmithsÕ use of language identifies them as heirs to conceptual art, they also draw on the traditions of British empiricism and nonsense literature. Instead of serving up abstruse philosophical propositions or abstract linguistic games, their work is conspicuously unpretentious, sometimes appearing deliberately silly. Yet underlying their use of absurdity is a constant effort to puncture our quasi-religious faith in mainstream aesthetics and to remind us that art is a game in which we can make up the rules. Ralph Rugoff Bob and Roberta Smith are old bastards not old masters. Mel Brimfield     brief bio Born, 1964 London Education 1991-93 MA Fine Art, Goldsmith College 1981-85 BA Fine Art (First Class Hons.) University of Reading Awards 1988-90 Harkness Fellowship in conjunction with Cooper Union School of Arts & Sciences, New York 1987-88 Cardiff Junior Fellowship 1985-87 Priz da Rome Solo Exhibitions 2002 The Art Amnesty, Pierogi, New York Stupid Men & Useless Women, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London It is not easy being a famous Artist, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris 2001 Unfortunate, Bob Smith hosts the search for the worst artwork in Britain, Whitchapel Art Gallery, London Create Your Own Reality, Galerie Carbone,Turin, Italy Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles Galerie Carbone, Turin 2000 26 Instructions, Turnaround at the Hayward, Hayward Gallery, London Statements, ART31, Basel – Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London Le Ecole Burrows & Bob Smith, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris (David Burrows & Bob & Roberta Smith, Two Person Show) 1999 Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London Galerie Carbone, Turin Silent Video, Virgin Mega Store 1998 Renaming the New Millenium, Pierogi 2000, New York 1997 Don't Hate Sculpt, Chisenhale Gallery, London 1997-8 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol 1996 Flawed, Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London 1994 Another Disappointment, Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London 1989 The Man Whose Head Expanded, Cooper Union School of Arts & Science 1988 Damn The Begrudgers, Center 181 Group Exhibitions 2002 Art Crazy Nation, Milton Keynes Gallery. Curated by Matthew Collings 2001 Sidewinder, CIMA Gallery Calcutta, India All Teeth and Trousers Cell, Ideal House, Dalston 12 Internet Projects commissioned by the BBC, The Lux Center The Artist's World, CCAC, San Francisco Another Britannia, TeclaSala, Barcelona Record Collection, curated by Elaine Forde and Mel Brimfield, VTO Gallery, London Dead, The Roundhouse, London (Touring) 2000 British Art, Diehl Vorderwuelbecke Galerie, Berlin Waiting, curated by Lotta Hammer, Mjellby Konstgard Intelligence – New British Art 2000, Tate Gallery, Millbank, London Cheated, A22 Projects, London Insanity Benefit, curated by Graham Higgin, Vilma Gold, London 3 Rooms – Outside Project, Left is the New Right, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London Landscape, curated by Ann Gallagher, British Council. ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar. 1999 My Old Man Said Follow the Van, curated by Carolina Grau, Rosemary Branch, London East Wing Collection, Courtauld Institute Limitless, curated by Matthew Higgs, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna My Eye Hurts, Thread Waxing Space, New York & Green Room, Manchester Museum Magogo, Glasgow Project Space Charlie Wrights, curated by Peter Harris, Charlie Wrights Bar, London PEACE, Migros Museum, Zurich £4.99 Sculptures, Museum of Installation at Deptford X Free Print Project, Migros Museum, Zurich at Basel Art Fair Stop it write now, Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway 1998 Beige & Sneakers, Buro Freidrich, Berlin Host, Tramway Gallery, Glasgow Some English Aristocracy, curated by Godfrey Worsdale, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh W139 Gallery, Amsterdam A to Z, curated by Matthew Higgs, The Approach, London Camouflage 2000, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris Mise En Scene, Grazer Kunstverein, Austria Do All Oceans Have Walls, Kunstlerhaus, Bremen, Germany 1997 Bring Your Own Walkman, W139, Amsterdam Gym 97, Conductors Hallway, London Lotta Hammer Gallery, London Shit Sculptures, Gramercy Art Fair, New York Urban Legends, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden Baden, Germany One Night Stands, The Gallery, Norwich School of Art 1996 Experiment GB, Trier & Hanover, Germany Escape Attempts, curated by Globe & Jack Jaeger, Christiania, Copenhagen Electronic Undercurrents – Art & Video in Europe National Gallery, Copenhagen Atopic Site, Tokyo Big Site, Tokyo Bank TV, Bank, London Try, Royal College of Art Curators Show Art96, Islington, Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art Unpop, Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London 1995 Hit & Run, The Ministry of Sound, London Hard Work, Union Street Gallery, London Couldn't Get Ahead, Independent Art Space, London Gang Warfare, Independent Art Space, London Sarah Staton's Supastore, Middlesborough Lost Property, W139 Amsterdam Lost Property, Great Western Studios, London Karaoke, South London Art Gallery, London
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