Natural Unnatural Richard Wentworth Charles Baudelaire
Richard Wentworth (b. 1947) Sculptor Photographer Walker Talker Urban explorer
Richard Wentworth has lived in London’s King's Cross for over 25 years
“An ongoing conversation with his native habitat, fuelled by daily walks down the Caledonian Road and expeditions into the hinterlands of King's Cross”
In photographs, objects and lectures he charts the contours of the inner city, the ebb and flow of urban life, the things that change and the things that never do London (2007)
In the 1970 s, his discovery of Walker Evans was a major influence on his thought processes.
Richard Wentworth "A lot of photographs I was taking I didn't understand. Walker Evans' work helped confirm what they were. Sometimes you need a little hand, which comes out of the wall and squeezes you. "
With An Area of Outstanding Unnatural Beauty, his latest project, commissioned by Artangel, visitors had to negotiate their way around tennis tables as they would to navigate around London.
They could stay and play a game – the space was theirs. "The underlying subject matter was essentially theatrical, just like being a participant in a city. "
Whether isolating an image of this existing world in one of the thousands of photographs that constitute the series Making Do and Getting By, or combining, transforming or manipulating found objects not normally associated with art such as dictionaries, sweet wrappers, books, plates and buckets in his sculptures, Wentworth teases us into a new awareness of the everyday.
Yellow Eight (1985)
Objects as much as ways of mind are disrupted and subverted, allowing the thousands of tiny gestures and things that constitute the world around us to be read in new and unexpected ways.
Tract (From Boost to Wham) (1993) In conversation with the critic Stuart Morgan, Richard Wentworth said: "I find cigarette packets folded up under table legs more monumental than a Henry Moore. Five reasons. Firstly the scale. Secondly, the fingertip manipulation. Thirdly, modesty of both gesture and material. Fourth, its absurdity and fifth, the fact that it works. "
Henry Moore
The Flowers of Evil • Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire, first published in 1857
The Flowers of Evil expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the 19 th century. He is credited with coining the term "modernity“ to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility art has to capture that experience Felicien Rops
. . . the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility art has to capture that experience Links to Richard Wentworth?
The Flowers Of Evil • Baudelaire felt that modern poetry must evoke the artificial and paradoxical aspects of life. He thought that beauty could evolve on its own, irrespective of nature and even fuelled by sin.
Baudelaire • The result is a clear opposition between two worlds, "spleen" and the "ideal. "
Spleen • Spleen signifies everything that is wrong with the world: death, despair, solitude, murder, and disease. (The spleen, an organ that removes disease-causing agents from the bloodstream, was traditionally associated with dissatisfaction; "spleen" is a synonym for "ill-temper. ")
Spleen/Ideal • In contrast, the ideal represents a transcendence over the harsh reality of spleen, where love is possible and the senses are united in ecstasy. • The ideal is primarily an escape of reality through wine, opium, travel, and passion. Dulling the harsh impact of one's failure and regrets, the ideal is an imagined state of happiness, ecstasy, and voluptuousness where time and death have no place.
Baudelaire He is endlessly confronted with the fear of death, the failure of his will, and the suffocation of his spirit. Yet even as the poem's speaker is thwarted by spleen, Baudelaire himself never desists in his attempt to make the bizarre beautiful, an attempt perfectly expressed by the juxtaposition of his two worlds.
Clash of Nature/Culture
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