Just got back from the Jochem Hendricks show at the Haunch of Venison Gallery.
It’s a great show. The ground floor has a series of works on paper made by one of those machines that draws a line that follows where your eyes look.
On the second floor there are glass baubles that are half-filled with sand. They look like individual womens’ breasts, which is quite funny. There are also artificial diamonds surrounded by feathers on plinths.
However, on arrival on the top floor I realised very quickly that it was probably just about the worst show possible to take a 2-year-old to. It has 8 stuffed dogs all poised and looking straight at you as you ascend the stairs (see photo).
Our 2-year-old is very good though. She didn’t touch anything. Honest.
Generally fun though. He’s put together some things in a nice contrasting way, juxtapositions that make you feel lovely. Things created versus things that are natural. Its an interesting thought. Discuss.
One of my friends who came was wondering whether I was going to talk endlessly for hours about the work (like his other arty friends), but I don’t really like doing that. Good works tend to need bit of time for you to think about them. You can keep responding to them or getting new things out of them for a long time, but I prefer to walk away and come back another day – leave things time to settle. And this is a good show to do that with.
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“The marketing representative said that the artist chose the dogs and then had them “prepared” the way he wanted them for his installation. Basically meaning that they had been chosen alive, killed and stuffed in the pose he required”
I would have preferred them alive, i hope the bastard rots in hell for that.