Check out the latest Saatchi Showdown head to head, but be forewarned...Mores Rabenstern's paper collage "Searching for New Ways" certainly looks like a search and an unfruitful one at that, as he seems to have stumbled upon creating a fashion ad circa a few years ago and if there is a concept in there i'm at a loss...and Erik Weiser's piece looks like a sorry excuse for a Dubuffet. Sorry guys, no offense to the artists who no doubt work hard, but this is bad student work. Hopefully these two artists are students with a drive to grow and develop further as artists. But at this point I have to ask, where is the craft and where is the concept? From a visual analysis, both compositions are built on circles situated dead center on the surface and bisect with strong verticals. This creates static compositions that lock the eyes in place in the center. Despite the busy surface design in both pieces, neither one creates a sense of movement or tension, thus failing to create any visual interest. In terms of color, both artists are working with gray palettes that fail to capture the mystery, emotional subtlety, and nuance of gray. Instead the grays used here hit the viewer as dead on arrival, which, if its any consolation is the same effect as the use of gray by art market hero Jasper Johns, as currently seen at the Met.
Unfortunately, I have to imagine that these two artists made it here to the head to head, because they have the biggest email lists. And of course, in this forum that is how it works. (In the nature of full disclosure...I have participated in three Saatchi Showdowns and have gotten creamed, the first one I sent out to my list and had a large response, but still scored below a 6 out of 10, the other two I didn't send to my list and did not see that many people view and voting for my pieces and average was below 5.) I don't expect the best artwork to emerge from this kind of forum, but I have to imagine that there are a lot of emerging artists producing serious painting, sculpture, installation, etc., that show both strong craft skills and conceptual frameworks, that have their work posted on Saatchi. One would hope that those voting could be a little more discriminating.[...more]
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