Sunday 18 February 2007
Public art in South End Green
Whilst graphic art remains the main focus of our local cultural life, conceptual artists also contribute to the rich heritage of South End Green. This installation - untitled, but incorporating an empty beer bottle and cigarette butts - has recently been placed in front of the local Marks and Spencers, perhaps alluding to the former use of the site as a place of entertainment.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
The cigarette butts and empty beer bottle are obviously the artist's protest against exclusion, authoritarianism, Thatcher, Blair, Marks and Spencer, NHS cuts, and er, well, if in doubt, probably racism as well.
But the area's artists are not the only ones with a creative imagination.
I see at least one clever-clogs estate agent is advertising a property 'directly opposite Gospel Oak station' as being 'in South End Green'. If South End Green now stretches as far as Gospel Oak Station, how long before its territorial ambitions spread to Mayfair, Clapham, even to Alsace and the Sudentenland - 'und morgen die ganze Welt'!...
Remember Munich.
Post a Comment