A4art

I Went to the A4art China exhibition last night in the Sense Loft, London. It didn't take long to get there... 35 steps from my desk in fact, 20 of which were of the raised variety up the stairway.

I was not involved in planning any of the (china)nigans at all so i saw the whole thing with fresh eyes. Joe Orton did a great job of pulling it all together and unraveling the mysteries of the Chinese language. I thought that some of the pieces where impressive and certainly beautiful on a number of levels. However, I was more struck by the overall tone of the commentaries submitted by the artists to accompany their work.

Ignorant as I am of Chinese culture I was a little surprised at how philosophical, verbose and 'otherworldly' the intentions of the artists were. In any other exhibition I would have scoffed and muttered some childlike profanity under my breath recalling frustrations of my own fine art 'education'. However in this case i did no such thing, being promptly distracted by the smell of hot Chinese food that had arrived and remained safe in the knowledge that the following day i could quiz Joe...
And so i left, my belly full of food and my head full of questions.
Job done.