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CHAIR ISLAND
SOME IMAGES FROM AN EXHIBITION AT QUAY ARTS CENTRE, ISLE OF WIGHT, UK, FEB/MARCH 2004
(From the accompanying text:)
What use is a chair? What if that chair has only three legs, one arm, be made of chalk or rusty metal and is way too high to sit on? What if it be constructed a hundred feet tall, on top of Culver Cliff, aligned to face a particular place in Europe? Something to marvel at, or ridicule, or no use at all?
Paul Woods started to make paintings in Berlin during the 1990's and now works on the island - his recent work explores his current obsession with chairs.
"I knew I needed a symbol, a thread to run through everything, a chair; geometrical but incomplete..."
This and above: ARMY/NAVY/FIRE-SERVICE CHEMICAL DISASTER GAMES,
SHANKLIN, I.O.W., 2003
DRIFTWOOD CHAIR, LUCCOMBE BAY, I.O.W.
WINDSOR CHAIR WARHOL CHAIR
LEGO CHAIR
+ flashing light in base
(+ three bathers stranded in the corner of 'cliff falls')
MIES CHAIR / a.k.a. MINISTRY OF ARCHITECTURE / a.k.a. KING KONG CLUB POSTER #1
(ADAPTED FROM A PHOTO PRESENTED TO THE ARTIST, THEN A MODEL-MAKER, 20 YEARS PREVIOUSLY)
THE MIES VAN DER ROHE 'GLASS STUMP' (ACCORDING TO PRINCE CHARLES) PROPOSAL, CITY OF LONDON, WAS POSTHUMOUSLY REFUSED PERMISSION IN THE 80'S AFTER 25 YEARS EFFORT AND INCH-BY-INCH PROPERTY SECURING BY THE MIES-ADORING PALUMBO DYNASTY.
PRIMEMINISTER THATCHER ALSO DISAPPROVED.
STIRLING'S NO.1 POULTRY 'BIT OF WEDDING CAKE' WAS BUILT INSTEAD.
KNOCK IT DOWN!
BUILD THIS CHAIR FOR MIES!
(FOREGROUND LEFT IS THE MANSION HOUSE, HOME TO THE LORD MAJOR; RIGHT IS LUTSCHEN'S NATWEST BANK H.Q.
NEARBY ARE THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.)
THE TWO-LEVEL PENTHOUSE-STUDIO IN THE NEW WRIST-STUMP IS RESERVED FOR WALLY...
(Click for POSTER VERSIONS of above image)
'BRAVE NEW ISLAND'
(The oil painting, CLIFF FALLS, intended to be the focal piece of the exhibition,
unfinished and unsatisfactory after 12 months' intensive effort,
was turned into a back-drop and is not documented here. However, here is the plot:)
DATE: THE FUTURE
NEW SHUTTLE BIG HOPE RETURNS AFTER SUCCESSFUL DROP OF LUCCOMBE CHAIR MODULE AT NORTH MARS
STOP
THE MODULE, INFECTED WITH LITTLE CHAIR-SHAPED GENOMES DESIGNED TO SPAWN ON CONTACT WITH MARS ICE, SHOULD BY NOW HAVE COMPLETED ITS TERRAFORMING MISSION
STOP
LATEST:
THE NEW ISLE OF WIGHT AT THE MARS NORTH POLE HAS BEGUN TO TRANSMIT ITS BIRTHDAY MESSAGE...
OLD HUBBLE EXPECTED SHORTLY TO DELIVER COLOUR IMAGES...
MESSAGE INCOMING...
STOP
GOD SAVE US!
STOPSTOPSTOP
THE ARTIST'S OLD STUDIO AT LA FABRIK, BERLIN.
HAS SINCE BEEN NICELY RENOVATED - NOW TOO EXPENSIVE TO RENT
FROM THE TIMES ARTICLE "ROOM AT THE TOP"
MONTAGE (+ CHAIRS ON PLAQUE) RE-NAMED "ROOM AT THE BOTTOM"
THE EXHIBITION COMPRISED 40 NEW WORKS INCLUDING OIL PAINTINGS, SCULPTURE, COMPUTER GRAPHICS/MONTAGES AND STRAIGHT PHOTOS. IT WAS PUT TOGETHER WITH ONE PURPOSE IN MIND - TO FIND A SPONSOR FOR THE FIRST REAL BIG CHAIR (WHO KNOWS HOW HIGH!) TO BE BUILT SOMEWHERE ON THE ISLAND.
NEWS FLASH: TOP SECRET NEGOTIATIONS FOR FIRST GRAND COMMISSION ARE CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS.
UPDATE TO FOLLOW...
P.D.Woods, Feb, 2004