The Banquet Years. Active in London between 1991-2003, the artist group Bank output combined pugnacious, surly irreverence with an incisive and self-conscious criticality.
MOTINTERNATIONAL presents The Banquet Years, an exhibition of work by the artists group BANK. Active in London between 1991-2003, their output combined pugnacious, surly irreverence with an incisive and self-conscious criticality.
BANK exhibited collectively and ran the spaces BANKSPACE, DOG, and Gallerie Poo-Poo. Artworks were combined in installations under the corporate anonymity of ‘BANK’, while gallery activities cut loose from 'public funding worthiness'. For Zombie Golf (BANKSPACE,1995) waxwork zombies occupied the gallery, both getting in the way of 'real' art works and providing a theatrical stage for them, while the invitation to their inaugural show at DOG, Fuck Off (1996), included a page torn from Art and Theory and scrawled across with the words ‘Let’s Rock’. The Banquet Years will survey the group's prints, paintings and sculptures, and will contain an archive of ephemera charting BANK's diverse activities, such as BANK TV and The Bank tabloid. The Banquet Years will also include works from the BANK ‘Fax-Bak Service’. From 1998, BANK corrected gallery press releases, suggesting improvements to their grammar and content, before marking them out of 10 and faxing them back. A typical assessment might conclude:
'1/10
Meaningless and clichéd. Well done!’
Laure Prouvost
Laure Prouvost / Adam Chodzko
Tate Britain, London 28th January - 12th May 2013
as part of the exhibition 'Schwitters in Britain'
Elizabeth Price
Contemporary Art Society, London
User Group Disco (2009) from 9th January 2013
Artist's Talk 17th January 2013
Clunie Reid
Perspectives on Collage
The Photographer's Gallery, London
18th January - 7th April 2013
Cally Spooner
And Yet, There They Still Are
LUX Artists' Moving Image
accessible at http://lux.org.uk/exhibitions/and-yet-there-they-still-are
Private View Thursday 10th January 2013 6-8pm
MOTINTERNATIONAL
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