Martin Creed: FEELINGS
July 7- September 16, 2007
Opening: Saturday, July 7,
5:00- 7:30 pm
Performance with Martin Creed
and His Band
Saturday, July 7, 8:30 pm
SummerScape 2007 Spiegeltent
For tickets: 845-758-7900
Martin Creed is renowned for his aggressive deployment of a range of seemingly banal materials, such as a spot of blu-tak affixed precisely to the center of a wall; sheets of letter paper filled in with highlighter or ballpoint pen; collections of an enormous variety of balls; stacks of lumber; or neon spelling out simple words and phrases such as “THINGS,” “FEELINGS,” or “EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT.” Such works subvert traditional hierarchies, appearing to aim for a Minimalist degree-zero of sculpture, while invoking a surprisingly broad range of potential meanings and emotional responses, from fear to pleasure and empathy.
Creed is also a musician and speaks of wanting to make art aspire to the condition of music. The idea is that one might experience art more as an event than as a static object, as in two of Creed’s most renowned works, The Lights Going On and Off (1996) and Half the Air in a Given Space (1997).
