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artists who play with a "rupture of sense". 

Strangely indistinguishable from the familiar terrain of normality

The show explores what it means to step over this barrier and to set foot into the inexplicable and illogical world of humour

These strategies, and those of all the artists in 'Ha Ha Road', serve to illustrate the liberating freedom of thought at work in humour. 

A REAL COMEDY SPECIALIST WE HAVE HERE FOLKS:


"I really doubt a member of KEK or an aficionado of Broodthaers actually wants an explanation, but a photo's worth a thousand words, one's i agree with more than the curators write up."

CHARLES  STANKIEVECH

Die Mauer (The Wall), 2009

Nine vinyl records with covers

Courtesy of the artist

Charles Stankievech (b. 1978) is a Canadian artist who often uses

installation and sound art to tell stories inspired by landscape, architecture

and history. Embedded in this practice, Stankievech's minimal installation

Die Mauer intertwines languages of conceptual art, cold war iconography,

institutional critique and rock ‘n’ roll pop culture. In 2009, exactly 30 years

after the album release (1979) and 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall

(1989), the artist bought all The Wall vinyl records by Pink Floyd for sale at

the popular Mauer Park Market in Berlin. That day, there were 9 used LPs

of various editions and prices available from various independent sellers. In

the context of Ha Ha Road, the long assemblage of freestanding covers with

their album art of white bricks daubed with graffiti resonates with the idea

of the “barrier” at play in the exhibition’s title. But positioned on the gallery

floor, due to their specific design, the covers make a humorous reference also

to one of the UK’s greatest art scandals ever: the vandalisation of Carl

Andre’s Equivalent VIII at the Tate in the 1970s. Protesting the idea of “a

pile of bricks” actually being art, someone smeared this work with paint. We

would invite you to be a little more gentle.

"Angles"

Richard Prince
Untitled (RP007) (Cigarettes), 1978-79
Diptych of Ektacolor photographsP
Each print 20 x 24 inches (51 x 61 cm)
Each frame: 30 x 23 ¼ inchea

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