Who is this South African woman crashing through the guarded gates of the art world?
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
posted by Robert Sloon at 1:09 PM
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What a boring website. So restrained. If I had a website I would want it to be all pink and black and look like it was advertising a whorehouse.
Careful, Sloon… this is awfully similar to Andrew Lamprecht’s failed attempt in 2004 to publicly humiliate Ms Dall at the AVA. Not only did his “curating” get a scathing review, but more importantly it exposed his malicious and mean nature.
So what, she is commercial and frivolous… surely there are more important and interesting stories to report?
If Ms Dall wants to be commercial and frivolous, why is she invoking the idea of serious art? To give herself a platform she doesn't deserve and hence she has a fucking cheek and deserves to be shown up for the chessy stupid braindead vacuous bimbot asshole she is. And I am not Andrew Lamprecht. I am someone who thinks Tay Dall is a mindless fool.
Ok and i've made a few typo's cos I'm a bit irate, but has ms Dall every taken a second of her asshole bimbo life to wonder what the 'guarded doors' of the artworls are guarded against? They are guarded against the reduction of a productive debate within the art community into stupid schmaltz. Maybe Ms Dall might not see the point of this, but I would like to remind her that it is very very painful and torturous for intelligent people to be faced with art like like hers. It is hell. She best realise that other people other than assholes like herself need some fucking space to live on this planet and they are going to fight for it as it is necessary for their survival and their happiness. So she can take her stupid crap and fuck off. She is like garbage fouling up clean water. She is disgusting.
Umm, anonymous 10.02, you know how on your Xanax bottle it says to take one every day...?
ok, here's a reasonable proposal. If Ms Dall can get it together within the following year to read only one chapter from any of the following authors, i will personally invite her through the guarded gates of the art world:
Wittgenstein, Marx, Kant, Schopenhauer, Sartre, Fanon, Bhabha, Alpers, Hal Foster, Frederic Jameson, Foucault, Kristeva, Joyce, Plato, Eagleton, Danto, Lacan, Deleuze, Guattari, Barthes, Baudrillard, Arthur Danto, T.J. Clarke.
Well I could go on. These are only some of the world's thinkers. But no doubt she hasn't heard of them, and no doubt she wants to be credited with an equivalent stature to theirs. No doubt she should start to wake the fuck up and start to have a little respect before she expects to be taken seriously.
oh and, reading The Secret or The Celestine Prophecy or The Road Less Travelled or The Da Vinci Code is not going to help.
Haai shame julle. Such vitriolic responses to some blerry housewife who wants to take her arts and crafts a bit more seriously. What are you really angry about? That she calls it art or because she's made a living giving everyday people what they want? Wallpaper.
And may I say that wallpaper is so hot right now in the East Rand.
Lots of people make mainstream crap. Like the visual version of Jilly Cooper bodice-ripping novels. The thing is, Jilly Cooper is actually well-informed enough to be aware that she is not Dostoyevfsky. Whereas Tay Dall is too ignorant to understand the difference between the Tay Modern and the Tate Modern, and that is the problem, because she sets up a false discussion. If she called her shop Tay's wallpaper that would be great.
KANT
Hermanus (home of tay modern) was the first place in the country to close its Macdonald s. Perhaps the folks that saved the town from the golden arches will recognize the hamburger art on sale there.
They probably found Macdonalds a bit too edgy and contemporary and politically engaged
The entire Garden Route is dotted with galleries and craft shops. It sure beats car-sickness as a puke motivator. BUT WHAT DOES IT MATTER? Its just a load of people trying to scratch crumbs, or if you prefer, to put meat on the table.
DOES IT MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER ABOUT YOURSELF TO BE EDUCATIONALLY ENABLED TO SEE THIS SO-CALLED ART FOR THE DERIVATIVE SENTIMENTAL CRAP THAT IS?
The challenge is to make good work. If this makes you feel better than people who make shit work I would suggest that is your problem.
Ps. Tay Dall is noteworthy for two things:
1 The name Tay Modern is witty and cheeky and - I think- possibly ironic, and certainly preferable to Mimi's Fine Arts & Shells Emporium.
2 A few years ago I remember that when Tay Dall first emerged as someone who was making big bucks from churning out decor friendly 'art' quite a few nameless notables (ex-michaelis luminaries amongst them) were observed to follow the trend into saleable colour field abstractions. And the rationalisations followed, nicely articulated, art historically referenced and so on...
Ps. What would one call her latest calligraphic excesses.
Pps. The facade of her house is about as cute as fresh puppy and just as disgusting.
there is something familiar about the gallery 'facade'. its like conceptual art i saw somewhere before. can anyone help?
I don't think you need an education to see her art for the crap it is, you just need some brains. But you do need an art education to explain why this is crap and something else is not, and to explain that fine art in its best incarnation is a one of the few precious opportunities we have for a public thinking culture as opposed to a sold-out mindless culture.Most gallerists and journalists do not know or appreciate the difference, and so if Tay Dall claims to be a serious artist she puts other artists under pressure to descend to her kind of horrible commercialism.
And I don't think the "Tay Modern" is ironic. She really does want to be taken seriously, and she really sees herself as a serious artist, otherwise the first words on her website would not about herself entering the artworld, albeit in a rather crass fashion.
At the bottom of the Home Page there's a link to "Private Viewing Rooms". Chuckle. Maybe she tosses in a free lap dance with every painting purchased. Secret to success?
( 0 Y 0 ) <-------Tay Dall
The gallery facade is a bit like a Loony Toons version of 'modern art'. Like Bugs Bunny meets 'Tintin et l'Alph-art'. Or perhaps like Kendall Geers' intervention on Read Contemporary's facade, which was another reconfigured House of Art. Or like a misunderstood rip -off of Duchamp's Large Glass remembered via The Great Glass Elevator.
anonymous 3:56 I can help. you saw it at the Michaelis gallery. a show called Come Again. can't think of the artist's name.
Plese read Tay Dall's STYLE STATEMENT on her website under CV.
Just read the "STYLE STATEMENT" (o here). So she's basically saying she's making really, really pretty wallpaper? I only have a standard 8, but that's what it says to me.
LET ME FLOG A DEAD HORSE - or What Not To Admit Two 101:
...."! treat my canvas with sublime indifference. A flickering thought or an incessant feeling can spark off my creative impetus. Each painting conveys its own state of consciousness and its own menu of styles from surrealism to abstraction. There is no overall plan to my individual works. Images are born onto the canvas as they are born into my mind. This is my personal struggle with art; the incongruous relationship between structure and space. This struggle represents a wholeness that encompasses all of my life’s energies.
To me, the circle of life begins and ends in the exact same spot."...
Wow. The only thing that makes me feel that deeply is a plate of slap chips
You guys are so scary.
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