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John Kaine - "Lexicart: word as object"

The exhibition 'Lexicart...' opened at the end of a week which saw the hottest April day on record. John Kaine's word art 'presented in the form of dry cleaning' at the AND "eventSpace" venue in east London drew together, throughout the evening, a broad mix of around eighty people. As with most RCA Society collaborative events there was plenty of time to socialise - eat delicious food and have a glass or two.

This visually cool exhibition - consists of 14 works in the form of iron and plastic 'coat hangers' holding selected words such as 'Suet' - 'No Dogs' - 'Pyramid' - 'Egg' - that are formed or cast in metal - and painted or rusted.
As John's notes explain '... the central point of the exhibition is word as a portable object, and not encrypted information expressed as writing on a flat surface. These words are as entities divorced from semantics...'

Distinguishing visual language from verbal language - linear from mass - is a preoccupation of the artist. Why do we do visual art? What differentiates visual language (painting, sculpture: fine arts) from other languages - spoken, music, written: poetry - prose? How are concepts ideas and thoughts explained - shared amongst others? How (in)adequate is language and how does it constrain, mislead, misguide - regress or progress the human condition? Why can't we see or comprehend that which is directly in front of our eyes. Why do people speak in many tongues...?

This is an intriguing collection of works which will be on show until last week of April. Don't miss it!
For more information contact AND eventSpace.
AND website: www.and.org.uk
John Kaine's website: www.johnkaine.co.uk
DANA CENTRE, (Science Museum, London): http://www.rcasociety.net/node/178
'More is More' Photos: http://www.rcasociety.net/node/632

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Lexicart

Do look at John's own website to continue the theme.
After I looked at my empty plate and saw FOOD.
Then imagined supermarket shelves but saw MONEY.
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