Stuckism Retrospective In Hove
Stuckism is a radical and controversial art group that was co-founded in 1999 by Charles Thomson and Billy Childish (who left in 2001) along with eleven other artists.
The name was derived by Thomson from an insult to Childish from his ex-girlfriend, Brit artist Tracey Emin, who had told him that his art was 'Stuck'.
And Dan Belton, Brighton's leading Stuckist, is organising a retrospective exhibition.
Stuckists are pro-contemporary figurative painting with ideas and anti-conceptual art, mainly because of its lack of concepts. Stuckists have regularly demonstrated dressed as clowns against the Turner Prize. Several Stuckist Manifestos have been issued. One of them Remodernism inaugurates a renewal of spiritual values for art, culture and society to replace the emptiness of current Postmodernism. The Stuckism web site, started by Ella Guru, has disseminated these ideas, and in five years Stuckism has grown to an international art movement with over 100 groups round the world.
Dan Belton's South Coast Stuckist retrospectiveruns from 29th August - 4th September and is at St. Andrews Church, bottom of Waterloo St (opp. Iron Duke), Hove.
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