Super Farmers’ Market’

Handel Street Projects
14 Florence Street, London N1

Super Farmers’ Market’



Super Farmers’ Market’, 19-21 Sicilian Avenue, Holborn, WC1 18 June-17 July 2011
This year’s produce comes from the following sources: Rasheed Araeen, Phyllida Barlow, David Batchelor, Stuart Brisley, Richard Deacon, Braco Dimitrijevic, Mary Anne Francis, Martino Gamper, Lucy Gunning, Lucy Heyward, Susan Hiller, Andy Holden, Koo Jeong-A, Ian Kiaer, Sharon Kivland, Darian Leader, Sarah Lucas, Hayley Newman, Tina O’Connell, Lucy Orta, Nicholas Pope, Giorgio Sadotti, Saso Sedlacek, Jane Simpson, Bob & Roberta Smith, Rasa Todosijevic, Zlatan Vukosavljevic, Richard Wentworth, Franz West, Alison Wilding, Gerard Williams, Elizabeth Wright.

Nicholas Pope, Phyllida Barlow, David Batchelor

Nicholas Pope, Phyllida Barlow, David Batchelor

Richard Wentworth, Tina O’Connell, Alison Wilding, Braco Dimitrijevic, Elizabeth Wright, Rasa Todosijevic, Martino Gamper

Richard Wentworth, Tina O’Connell, Alison Wilding, Braco Dimitrijevic, Elizabeth Wright, Rasa Todosijevic, Martino Gamper

 

Super Farmers’ Market is the second in a series of group shows that teases at the possible proximity of two forms of specialist consumption: fine food and fine art.

Franz West, ‘Chewed Gum’

Franz West, ‘Chewed Gum’

Richard Deacon, Wait Rose

Richard Deacon, Wait Rose

The first Farmers’ Market took place in London’s Wigmore Street in 2008, showcasing 24 producers, and was herded by farmer and de-curator Fedja Klikovac, Director of Handel Street Projects. And just as the weekly Farmers’ Market offers the discerning customer informed selections of the very best produce, so this annual version does with art, combining the idea of a selected exhibition as an exercise in connoisseurship with the recognition that art is nevertheless also a commodity. This year’s show, curated by two experts in the field, Mary Anne Francis and Lucy Heyward, is themed around the idea of ‘upcycling’: the current trend for taking low-grade artefacts that might be destined for landfill and enhancing their value by means of handwrought interventions. To this end, 32 artists have been asked to produce artworks using low-cost supermarket goods: groceries, cleaning materials and discarded packaging. Continuing the Farmers’ Market theme, artists are encouraged to resource their materials locally.

Alison Wilding, Pruneyes

Alison Wilding, Pruneyes

Stuart Brisley, ‘The Last Breath’

Stuart Brisley, ‘The Last Breath’

As part of the exhibition we will be showing Agnes Varda’s film The Gleaners and I.

Koo Jeong-A, Untitled

Koo Jeong-A, Untitled

Saso Sedlacek, Salami Condoms

Saso Sedlacek, Salami Condoms

 

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