(Art) Basel diary #16
Art Feature at Tanya Leighton Gallery. Friday 16 June, 2011
Om (1986) by © JOHN SMITH
4 mins. Colour. Sound. 16mm.
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Six things you need to know about British artist JOHN SMITH:
- he graduated in 1977 from the Royal College of Art
- since 1972 he has made over fifty films, videos and installation works
- which deftly subvert the perceived boundaries between documentary and fiction, representation and abstraction
- Om (watch above) explores our response to stereotypes: aural, visual and ideological
- he teaches part-time at the University of East London
- he is represented by Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin
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