The art people drugaddict.co.uk have kindly invited me to an intriguing exhibition called I Love Charlie at London's Guy Hilton Gallery from Feb 24.
The title is a clue to its mischief: a play on love of coke while some sort of tribute to art collector Charles Saatchi, "an unwilling celebrity in this celebrity culture".
The press release explains: "Celebrity and Art have now been hopelessly confused. Charles Saatchi is an unwilling celebrity married to a celebrity cook 'Nigela Lawson'. Tracey Emin writes a column each week for the Independent and is never out of the gossip columns herself mixing with the likes of Kate Moss, she is in fact a celebrity Artist."
To this end the paintings and photos of artists and tabloidy slebs (eg ex-Coronation Street's Richard Fleeshman; Sadie Frost et al) will hang together is what sounds like a satirical showcase of the Frankenstein marriage of credible tat and showbizzy tit.
Members of the public will be asked to vote for their favourite work in an old-fashioned voting booth supplied by novelist Will Self. And I particularly like the fact that the stuff will be up for sale and categorised and priced like street drugs - Class A, B and C.
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You should be careful, Madame. You are giving away too many clues to your identity. Perhaps you want to be outed (in which case I am sure Nick Hellen would be only too happy to oblige). But if you don't, I suggest you simply turn up at events, like exhibitions, without telling us in advance that you are on the guest list.
ReplyDeleteI would sign off with my nom de plume ("Featherweight"), but then nobody would know it was me.
I happen to know that this so-called Madame is like some ghastly Borg with a number of inter-linked automata parading around London parties. The Sunday Times is onto this one.
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