exhibition

never mind the quality, feel the width

Artists Richard Priestley, Mark Pearson, Kevin Francis Gray

05.Jul.01 - 04.Aug.01
Fri-Sun 12-6

Curators Richard Priestley

Cell Project Space
258 Cambridge Heath Rd
London E2 9DA
020 7241 3600
info@cell.org.uk
www.cell.org.uk
Tube Bethnal Green, Hackney / Bethnal Green

s it a perverted male human instinct to display, for others to see, the level of luxury consumables we can afford ? Are we harkening after the pack pecking order, or attempting to attract a mate, in the way a male peacock displays his feathers ?

`Never mind the quality, feel the width` examines contemporary male feather fanning displays through their twisted modern manifestations as macho displays of materialistic consumption and regurgitation across class boundaries. These male artists rejoice and revel in `big up` tales of one armed bandit benders and stock car smash-ups with supermarket trolleys. Wound down windows with pumping garage from mega-base boxes hunting for trophies from diamante dirtbags. Trailer–trash meet the nouveau`s in a black marble, stainless steel kitchen.

These artists are addressing male behaviour in social evolution within a materialistic society and are poking our evolved instincts. Just what is civilisation doing to the human animal ?

Come and have a go if you think you`re hard enough.