Stakism

Stuckism is an international art movement founded in 1999 in the UK by artists Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art .

Content

1 Group History
- 1.1 Background
- 1.2 Name
- 1.3 Activities
2 Manifests
3 notes
4 References

Group History

Background

The first 13 stack artists. Real Turner Prize Show , Pure Gallery, Shoreditch , London , October 2000

Sexon Min, Tracy Emin, Charles Thomson, Billy Childish and Russell Wilkins perform at the Rochester Education Center to record The Medway Poets LP, December 11, 1987.

In 1979, Thomson, Childish, Bill Lewis, and Min were members of The Medway Poets, a performance group that Absolon and Sancia Lewis had previously contributed to. Pictures of the participants of the association were exhibited in the Rochester pottery workshop of Peter Waite. In 1982, a documentary film dedicated to their work was broadcast on British television. In the same year, Emin and Childish began dating; Emin wrote poems that Bill Lewis edited, published by Thomson and published Childish. Members of the group published dozens of works. The poetic circle ceased its activity for two years, but already in 1987 all its members came together again to record The Medway Poets LP together. Clark, Howard and Joe Mashin joined the circle over the following years. Thomson met Williams, who studied at a local art college and whose girlfriend was Emin's girlfriend; Thomson also met with Emon Everall ^[1] .

Title

The name "stackism" was proposed by Thomson as a reaction to the statement of the artist Tracy Emin , addressed to Billy Childish (her boyfriend at that time): "Your painting is stuck, you are stuck! Stuck! Stuck! Stuck! ”( Your paintings are stuck, you are stuck! Stuck! Stuck! Stuck! ). This incident occurred in January 1999, and already in the same month Thomson turned to Childish with a proposal to create a joint art group of Stackists. Childish reacted positively, but on the condition that Thomson would do the bulk of the work for the group, as Childish himself already had a tight schedule ^[1] .

Stuck! Stuck! Stuck! - The first exhibition of stackists, 1999.

Activities

Stakists formed as a group as an alternative to Young British Artists . From the very beginning, eleven artists participated in the movement:

Philip Absolon, Francis Castle, Sheila Clark, Emon Everall, Ella Guru, Wolf Howard, Bill Lewis, Sanchia Lewis, Joe Mash, Sexton Min and Charles Williams ^[1] . Today, 120 members around the world are participating in the movement. Creative cooperation also gradually expanded ^[2] : if the group was originally designed for painters, then poets, writers, performance artists, photographers, musicians and cinema workers began to join it ^[1] .

Childish left the band in 2001. Stakists organized many exhibitions, but attracted more attention with their demonstrations near the Tate Gallery and attacks against the Turner Prize and Charles Saatchi . The first major stackist exhibition took place in 2004 during the Liverpool Biennale .

Manifests

In the first Stackist Manifesto, written by Childish and Thomson in 1999, much attention was paid to the meaning of painting. “An artist who does not draw is not an artist,” said the stackists ^[3] .

The second and third manifestos: “An Open Letter to Sir Nicholas Serota” and “ Remodernism” , respectively, were sent to the director of the Tate Gallery, Nicholas Serota. He answered briefly: “Thank you for your open letter of March 6th. You will not be surprised to learn that I have no comments on your letter or on your manifesto “Remodernism” ” ^[4] .

Notes

↑ ¹ ² ³ ⁴ Thomson, Charles (August 2004), "A Stuckist on Stuckism: Stella Vine", from: Ed. Frank Milner (2004), The Stuckists Punk Victorian , pp. 7–9, National Museums Liverpool , ISBN 1-902700-27-9 . Available online at "The Two Starts of Stuckism" and "The Virtual Stuckists" on stuckism.com.
↑ "Stuckism: Introduction" , stuckism.com. Retrieved October 18, 2009.
↑ Stuckists, scourge of BritArt, put on their own exhibition Sarah Cassidy, The Independent , 23 August 2006,
↑ "An open letter to Sir Nicholas Serota" , stuckism.com, 1999. Retrieved May 20, 2007

Links

[milner7-1] ¹ ² ³ ⁴ Thomson, Charles (August 2004), "A Stuckist on Stuckism: Stella Vine", from: Ed. Frank Milner (2004), The Stuckists Punk Victorian , pp. 7–9, National Museums Liverpool , ISBN 1-902700-27-9 . Available online at "The Two Starts of Stuckism" and "The Virtual Stuckists" on stuckism.com.

[2] "Stuckism: Introduction" , stuckism.com. Retrieved October 18, 2009.

[3] Stuckists, scourge of BritArt, put on their own exhibition Sarah Cassidy, The Independent , 23 August 2006,

[4] "An open letter to Sir Nicholas Serota" , stuckism.com, 1999. Retrieved May 20, 2007