Art in Ruins

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Art in Ruins. Trust Us,1997
Art in Ruins. Trust Us,1997

Art in Ruins was formed in 1984 as a collaborative interventionist practice in art and architecture, staging exhibitions and publishing texts.[1][2][3] Its members are Hannah Vowles and Glyn Banks.[4]

Art in Ruins is based in Bloomsbury, London, and inherits the 1960s legacy of Art & Language and Gilbert and George.[4] Works include Trust Us (1997) and We Like You (1995).[4] Their reaction to current art is "iconoclastic"[5] with "a sort of supersensitivity to the politics of art."[6] Since the early 1990s, they have been a "mirror image" to the Young British Artists, such as Damien Hirst, using similar techniques, including ready-made objects, but satirising self-expression and focusing on art's economic basis.[7] Art in Ruins "may be a group, but they are first and foremost a demolition squad whose target is the last vestiges of value."[8]

Their work has been exhibited in major cities throughout Europe.[9]They have been on the faculty of the Art and Architecture program at the Kent Institute of Art and Design, [10] and with the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. In 1991 Art in Ruins were awarded the DAAD Berliner Kunstlerprogramm Stipendium.[11]

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Hannah Vowles and Glyn Banks (1995). "Dramatising contradictions". Ctheory.net. 
  2. ^ Glyn Banks and Hannah Vowles (1987). New Realism: From the museum of ruined intentions. London: Gimpel Fils. OCLC 19809582. 
  3. ^ Watson, Gray; Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England) and Stoke-on-Trent (England), City Museum and Art Gallery (1986). Art in ruins. London: Institute of Contemporary Arts. ISBN 0905263065. OCLC 22669762. 
  4. ^ a b c Coles, Alex. "Appearances are Against Us", Art and Text, Los Angeles, July 2000.
  5. ^ Corris, Michael. Artforum, New York, September 1991.
  6. ^ Beech, Dave. Art Monthly, London, July/August 1998.
  7. ^ Jones, Jonathan. The Guardian, London, 15 December 1999.
  8. ^ Perrin, Frank.European Guerillas "Kanal" No 2, April/May 1992
  9. ^ Contemporary Utopias, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Arts, April/May 2001.
  10. ^ "Building for tomorrow: the Canterbury School of Architecture".
  11. ^ Irit Rogoff (2000). Terra Infirma: Geography's Visual Culture. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 4150096162.  pp 56-60.

[edit] Further reading

  • Art in Ruins (Group of artists) (1991). ANC. London: Gimpel Fils. OCLC 78371071. 
  • Musée Sainte-Croix (1990). Resistances : Absalon, Art in ruins, Véronique Joumard, Serge Kliaving : Poitiers, Musée Sainte-Croix, 16 Mars-15 mai 1990. Poitiers: le Musée. ISBN 2903015104. OCLC 81658785. 
  • "Camera Austria" (1994). Graz, Austria: Manfred Willman. ISSN 10151915. 
  • Irit Rogoff (2000). Terra Infirma: Geography's Visual Culture. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 4150096162.  pp 56-60


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