HisSpace
We at Code Z had always planned to have a community network system in which artists can create a MySpace-style profile with their art, writings, and other information to share with other artists. Um... yeah, we're getting to that. In the meantime, London's supercollector Charles Saatchi has already created something similar via the Saatchi Gallery with the Your Gallery web site.
Thousands of artists have seemingly taken the gallery up on the offer and have uploaded their images and C.V.'s to the site. Now, because too much is never enough for Charles Saatchi, he has teamed up with the Guardian newspaper to select 10 artists from Your Gallery to appear in a group show at the Guardian's exhibition space in October. We're noting that the painting-heavy shortlist of 30 artists includes Ronald Hall, whom we remember from his group show at SAM a couple of years back. Hall's painting is called "The Forgotten," and Hall says about his work: "My work is a celebration of African-American culture and history. I attempt to demonstrate through my art my interpretation of historical relations in the context of race and identity in America."
The final 10 artists will be determined by a web poll at the Guardian's website. Don't act surprised. We live in a post-Pop Idol/American Idol world, and nothing means anything unless its voted on by a nation full of casual observers with no particular expertise in what they're voting on. We say have fun. Voting closes September 18th.
15 September 2006