I haven't shown stuff for years, so it was a pleasure last night to show 'For Doug' a shameless rip off of Joseph Kosuth's One and Three Chairs (1965) that is Julie and my contribution to an exhibition at UEL called Bookworks. It wont be up for long so catch it while you can. Actually I think our interpretation of the old Art and Language riff has some elan, this time the subject is not a chair, but a place, Lake Tahoe. It looked good. Here's the written presentation:
FOR DOUG
By Julie Cook and Paul
Davies
For Christmas December 2004 Julie Cook and Paul Davies went to Reno – a
city close to Lake Tahoe. The work ‘For Doug’ plays with their experience of
Lake Tahoe, which, for many coherent reasons, they have still never actually
seen.
From the trip they produced a small artists book ‘RENO’ in a series of
one hundred and sixty. The book, a combination of photographs by Julie Cook and
writing by Paul Davies, is dedicated to barman Doug Twist at the Peppermill
Hotel Casino where they stayed. He was a significant motivation for the content
of this work, since not reaching Lake Tahoe became their regular entertainment
each evening and the lake itself a venue of mythological significance.
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