Cubed 3
Mark Clintberg
Shinobu AKimoto
David Poolman
Dates Showing: March 22nd - April 18th, 2003
Cubed 3 is an exhibition which forced an awry contemplation of the mundane.
Three artists, Mark Clintberg, Shinobu Akimoto, and David Poolman, created
physical and introspective spaces that pushed the viewer to probe, and
interrogate notions of the liminal territory between art and not-art. They
explored the slippery disintegration between everyday objects, and art
objects.
Believing that "there is content to all of it, all of living," Mark
Clintberg wanted to make people really 'look' at the objects they owned to
see them for all of their novelty. Clintberg's installation 'Maison de Study
Haus' forced the audience to carefully inspect his unusual arrangement of
objects, to think about the intentionality and precision explicit in their
choice and placement.
Similarly,  Shinobu Akimoto with 'Apartment Painting Project (and other
related activities)' was interested in reflecting her explorations into how
the idea of artmaking exists in relation to our daily living and our various
endeavours of "creation"- or simply, Akimoto's installation "preoccupied
with the symbiotic relationship between 'how to live' and 'how to make
art'." The artist presented a series of "kitchen sized" photographs, a
large photo mural, and a ready-made style wooden bannister.
As a video artist, David Poolman filmed himself doing everyday things, hence
the title 'A Little Bit of Nothing'. In Iceberg, for example, he merely sat
eating a salad with a spartan backdrop.The eating is in real-time, and as
the viewer waited for something to happen, you felt as though you were in
slow motion, completey absorbed in every facial twitch and every
predicatable fork of lettuce. In his two short video pieces he played with
the role of the viewer by turning them into active participants "who must
come to terms with the . futile scenarios" that he presented.
Cubed 3, created unique, challenging environments within the gallery space
that were difficult to reconcile. Thought provoking, humorous, it delivered
the ordinary, from an innovative perspective, demanding the viewer to
question what they are looking at, and to contemplate the function and
relationship of the ordinary in art.
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