Some Think Funky: Create
The Gopher Hole
350-354 Old Street
London
EC1V 9NQ
Some Think Funky: Create
This exhibition has been curated to allow a variety of up and coming designers and artists from a multitude of backgrounds to exhibit using strength in numbers under a single collaborative collective. The work is based around a singular concept, Create.
This exhibition is the first curated by Christopher Hall, Ziya Mustafa, The Gopher Hole, and The Institute of IDEAs. This collaboration has been formed to learn and demonstrate the reasons how exhibitions are created, why we exhibit and what makes a successful exhibition. Some Think Funky was created as a visual idea of how we can learn, adapt and discover new experimental ways to showcase ourselves within today’s creative world.
What is the point of exhibiting?
We curate exhibitions to showcase, show and explain ideas. Exhibitions are a vehicle to demonstrate creativity to the masses. The problem with this is that it is almost impossible to keep an individual’s attention for longer than a minute. A successful exhibition allows exhibitors to convey hours of thought and thinking in to just 60 seconds.
Art collecting has now become more of an investment, a way to directly or indirectly show wealth. The value of a piece of art is dictated by who likes it, and what makes it good. Meaning that collectors can easily raise the value and price of something that many people may not perceive to not be that revolutionary or special. Francis Bacon once said that ‘being an artist is about fooling people. To become a good artist you must also fool the person to realize and raise an air of mystery to raise value.’
One of the issues now is that museums and exhibitions can nullify this value, because of the idea that art is for the public. This freedom to have art to everyone has led to the idea that it is something for us all, leaving people not necessarily appreciating the skill and work gone into it.
London
EC1V 9NQ
Some Think Funky: Create
This exhibition has been curated to allow a variety of up and coming designers and artists from a multitude of backgrounds to exhibit using strength in numbers under a single collaborative collective. The work is based around a singular concept, Create.
This exhibition is the first curated by Christopher Hall, Ziya Mustafa, The Gopher Hole, and The Institute of IDEAs. This collaboration has been formed to learn and demonstrate the reasons how exhibitions are created, why we exhibit and what makes a successful exhibition. Some Think Funky was created as a visual idea of how we can learn, adapt and discover new experimental ways to showcase ourselves within today’s creative world.
What is the point of exhibiting?
We curate exhibitions to showcase, show and explain ideas. Exhibitions are a vehicle to demonstrate creativity to the masses. The problem with this is that it is almost impossible to keep an individual’s attention for longer than a minute. A successful exhibition allows exhibitors to convey hours of thought and thinking in to just 60 seconds.
Art collecting has now become more of an investment, a way to directly or indirectly show wealth. The value of a piece of art is dictated by who likes it, and what makes it good. Meaning that collectors can easily raise the value and price of something that many people may not perceive to not be that revolutionary or special. Francis Bacon once said that ‘being an artist is about fooling people. To become a good artist you must also fool the person to realize and raise an air of mystery to raise value.’
One of the issues now is that museums and exhibitions can nullify this value, because of the idea that art is for the public. This freedom to have art to everyone has led to the idea that it is something for us all, leaving people not necessarily appreciating the skill and work gone into it.
