Purple Diary
[February 6 2011]
EXHIBITION #3 BY SIR PETER BLAKE AT THE MUSEUM OF EVERYTHING, LONDON
Rebel gallery The Museum of Everything, a pop-up museum in North London presents Exhibition #3 co-curated by infamous Sixties Pop artist Sir Peter Blake. Within an intimate atmosphere, a constructive chaos takes place as Blake showcases a obsessive paraphernalia, the result of years of hoarding in his studio. Non-traditional art, by those outside the parameters of the art world and society – the loose cannons, the unintentional and undiscovered, such is founder James Brett and Blake’s vision of celebration of outsider art. Collections of vintage circus postcards feature alongside boots attributed to the “classy midget” Tom Thumb, whilst Ted Wilcox’s psychedelic embroideries of pin-ups lead to a reconstruction of The Museum of Curiosity by Victorian taxidermist-artist Walter Potter. Concept or purpose are essentially redundant and if Blake’s carnival of artworks forms a mysterious diorama, it plays as shrine to that which is not understood yet liberating. Exhibition #3, co-curated by Sir Peter Blake runs its final week until 13 February at The Museum of Everything, Sharples Hall Street, London. Text Sophie Pinchetti
