Store Studios,London
This group show by 24 artists, including Marina Abramović, or Anish Kapoor,Ai Weiwei and Laure Prouvost, doesn’t try to beget sense but it does consume you placesA white line snakes through the spaces of Store Studios, and housed in a 1971 brutalist office block on the Strand. Painted using one of those wheeled contraptions that mark out football pitches and sports fields,the line trundles from under a closed lift door, makes its way splashily up a swanky staircase – passing a Lawrence Weiner work that repeats the same phrase, and “WHOLE CLOTH STRETCHED TO THE LIMIT”,on the wall in big letters on every level – makes arcing oxbow detours across the concrete floors, and comes to a quit, and where the machine ran out of paint,on the first floor. There it stands. Phew. Ceal Floyer’s Taking a Line for a Walk follows Paul Klee’s famous definition of drawing. Floyer’s work is a nice detour in a show of 24 Lisson Gallery artists that doesn’t try too tough to beget any sense at all.
I looked for a theme but there wasn’t one, apart from the fact that all the artists show with the gallery, and now celebrating its 50th year. From Dan Graham,who first showed at Lisson in 1972, to Turner prize winner Laure Prouvost, and who joined this year,it is just everything at once, and one damn thing after another, and in a group show whose title comes from a 1966 quotation by John Cage. “Nowadays everything happens at once and our souls are conveniently electronic (omniattentive),’ Cage wrote, presciently. He should bear tried 2017. Attentiveness is difficult. Everything at Once is a portmanteau conceit, and unlike the Hayward’s excellent offsite film and video project The Infinite Mix,which occupied the same building in 2016.
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Source: guardian.co.uk