Title & Author:

Making art work : [Mike Smith Studio] / editor, Patsy Craig ; design, Patsy Craig, Donald Mak, Ena Andrade ; interviews, William Furlong ; text, Germano Celant.

Publication:

London : Trolley, 2003.

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Artists: Doug Aitken -- Darren Almond -- Jake & Dinos Chapman -- Angela De La Cruz -- Anya Gallaccio -- Alex Hartley -- Mona Hatoum -- Damien Hirst -- Michael Joo -- Tania Kovats -- Michael Landy -- Abigail Lane -- John Latham -- Tim Noble & Sue Webster -- Marcus Taylor -- Gavin Turk -- Keith Tyson -- Mark Wallinger -- Rachel Whiteread -- Cerith Wyn Evans.
Also issued online.

Summary:

In the 15th century, the ideas of the great Renaissance artists required the attentions of engineers and artisans to construct and explain the dynamics of their ambitious works. Leonardo da Vinci's helicopter was built in a studio; very probably his submarine, too. Today that endeavour and enquiry is represented by Mike Smith, whose studio in the Old Kent Road in London furnishes the architecture for the most pressing installations and sculptures of young British artists. He is the carborundum that enables the best artists working in Britain today to realise their work--Rachel Whiteread's Monument in Trafalgar Square is a testament to his abilities. The painter Patsy Craig has here unravelled the activities of the Mike Smith Studios, including the symbiosis of the studio with those of Damien Hirst, Mona Hatoum, Keith Tyson, Darren Almond, Mark Wallinger, and others. The last 12 years of the studio's archives include the detritus, correspondence, notes, ideas, failures, and successes of these and other artists who collaborate with the studio. They are a diary and vade mecum of the construction of a significant theory in current British art. It is an extraordinary assembly of the very templates of the thinking, design and creation of art in Britain today, edited with a painter's eye to the relevant and disdain for the irrelevant. It is as if one were provided with a pop-up illustration of how and why artists think, and how their ideas are engineered by those who translate their odessys into reality. Germano Celant, a Senior Curator for Guggenheim New York, has contributed the critical text. William Furlong, from Audio Arts, has conducted the artists' interviews.

ISBN:

1902854225
9781902854229
1904563066
9781904563068

Subject:

Mike Smith Studio.
Artistic collaboration England London.
Art, English England London 20th century.
Art, English England London 21st century.
Collaboration artistique Angleterre Londres.
Art anglais Angleterre Londres 20e siècle.
Art anglais Angleterre Londres 21e siècle.
Art, English
Artistic collaboration
England London

Added entries:

Craig, Patsy.
Mike Smith Studio.

Mike Smith Studio

Holdings:

Location: Library main 244734
Call No.: N6768.5.M85 M3 2003
Status: Available