'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful'
Mabb, David.
2023.
'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful'.
In: "Sieh einmal die schönen Blumen", Jägerschere gallery for contemporary art, Niederer-Fläming Germany, Germany, 7 May - 11 June 2023.
[Show/Exhibition]
Sieh einmal die schönen Blümen“ featuring the work of Alexandra Baumgartner, Nikola Irmer, Ruprecht von Kaufmann, David Mabb, Tofu Pixel
"David Mabb has a long-standing artistic relationship to the work of William Morris, the 19th Century British radical whose socialist belief in the right to beauty are, in our period, the stuff middle class of wallpaper. Over many years Mabb has collected kitchen tea-towels with William Morris motifs and they are here presented on the washing line in the Jägerschere garden, a collision of domestic kitsch and a utopian vision of Cokaygne, the medieval mythical land of plenty."
Item Type | Show/Exhibition |
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Keywords | William Morris, tea towels, kitsch |
Departments, Centres and Research Units | Art |
Date Deposited | 22 May 2023 08:25 |
Last Modified | 14 May 2024 21:30 |
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