02/09/13
The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things
Curated by Mark Leckey
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
13 July – 20 October 2013
In recent years, there has been an
increasing trend for artists to take on the role of curator, encouraged by a
number of high-profile exhibitions, such as Grayson Perry’s The Tomb of the
Unknown Craftsman at the British Museum (2012) and Hayward Touring’s series of
artist-curated shows, including successes by Michael Craig-Martin, Richard
Wentworth, Susan Hiller, Tacita Dean, Mark Wallinger and now 2008 Turner prize-winner
Mark Leckey (born 1964). The idea of such exhibitions, according to Hayward
Touring, is to open up new and unexpected approaches to exhibition-making, as
well as to give special insights into the artists’ own deeper preoccupations.
In the case of Leckey, the visitor is treated to a spectacular cabinet of
curiosities, ranging across the categories of human, animal, and technology,
exploring a mind that is as much scientist as it is artist, as much crazy
inventor as it is mad professor.
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