SDA: Alberta meeting in Calgary at Atlantis Fine Framing 4515 Manhattan Rd SE Calgary
Full details below.
All are welcome, $5 members, $10 non-members.
Grayson Perry is an artist, renowned potter and certainly a surface designer. His tapestries based on the Rake's Progress were shown in the Royal Academy this summer (They took my breath away and stimulated a good 2 hours worth of attention and more time on discussion.) Grayson has been selected to give this year's Reith Lectures on the BBC and we will be listening in to one of them at our next Surface Design Association meeting in Calgary.
You are welcome to bring or wear a piece of clothing that is "subtle with bright colours" in the style of…. Grayson.
Beating the Bounds
Grayson Perry : Playing to the Gallery 2013
The award-winning artist Grayson Perry asks whether it is really true that anything can be art. We live in an age when many contemporary artists follow the example of Marcel Duchamp, who famously declared that a urinal was a work of art. It sometimes seems that anything qualifies, from a pile of sweets on a gallery floor to an Oscar-winning actress asleep in a box. How does the ordinary art lover decide?
In a lecture delivered amidst the Victorian splendour of St. George's Hall in Liverpool, Perry analyses with characteristic wit the common tests - from commercial worth to public popularity to aesthetic value. He admits the inadequacies of such yardsticks, especially when applied to much conceptual and performance art. And he concludes that in his opinion, the quality most valued in the art world is seriousness.
RSVP Karin ioftheneedle@me.com to ensure a seat.
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