Catalogue - factory-art gallery

DAN CROSBY - UK
Born 1988, UK
Education.
2007-2010, First Class Honours, (BA Hons) Fine Art.
Manchester Metropolitan University
2005-2007, Triple Grade Distinctions, (BTEC Nat Dip)
Art and Design. Burnley College
Exhibitions.
2012, Kitsch, Broadwalk Art, Bristol.
2011, Transgression (Longlisted), Beers.Lambert
Contemporary, London.
2010, Christmas Day, Kraak Gallery, Manchester.
2010, Manchester Metropolitan Degree Show,
Manchester.
2010, Pop Tots, Kraak Gallery, Manchester.
2009, Judas Goat. Manchester Art Crawl, Service Point,
Manchester.
Publications and Awards.
2011, Microcommission Scheme, Cornerhouse,
Manchester. (www.microcommissions.org)
FACTORY-ART gallery
TURN ON, TUNE IN! pag. 12
2012, HESA inprint, Fake Blood/Foreign Body.
Artist Statement
“We consume and consume and puke, more than
fetishise the objects and information we use. We don’t
act inside or outside of consumer culture, entertainment,
or art culture, we consume and translate, we’re a byproduct
of it.” Ryan Trecartin
“The (Grotesque) body swallows the world and is itself
swallowed by the world.” Mikhail Bakhtin
I believe that art should get lodged in the throat of its
audience, to make them think twice about what it is they
attempt to consume.
There is an idea of Inter-repulsion, a transgressive
paradigm which (according to Georges Bataille) outlines
the dualities between desire and filth, appropriation and
scatology, rejection and consumption.
My work concerns itself with the dichotomy between
the simulation of pornography and the simulation of a
utopian society.
The pieces I am proposing in particular attempts to
disrupt the symbolic order of meaning; a moment
where by rationality ends, providing no philosophical
speculation.
The sculpture transgresses its own confines, penetrating
external boundaries between itself and the world,
ceasing to ‘be itself’.
The sculpture is made up of purchased domestic
objects.
Keeping the work materially obvious to provide a lesson
in aesthetics, appropriation and scatology...(Scatology in
reference to George Batailles essay on ‘The use value of
D.A.F de Sade’).
‘’He (de Sade) understood too that our tastes are
motivated not by the intrinsic qualities of the object but
by the latters relationship with the subject.’’ - Simone De
Beauvoir, ‘Must we burn Sade’.
‘’A grotesque world in which only the inappropriate is
exaggerated is quantitatively large, but qualitatively it is
extremely poor, colourless and far from gay’’ - Makhail
Bahktin - ‘Rabelais and his world’.
Artists of reference:
Mike Kelley,
Paul McCarthy,
Nick Paparone,
Chapman Brothers,
Urs Fischer,
Ken Kagami,
Jeff Koons,
Dan Grosby