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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 700
BILLY CHILDISH (1959- )
Art Hate Week at Tate Modern Posters. Group of 3 offset lithograph posters on thick paper. Each approximately 1119x820 mm; 44x32¼ inches. Old 4 Legs [London], 2009.
Includes Act Like A Real Woman / Join the Women's Art Hate; Art Hate at Tate; and National Art Hate Week.
Each signed (with the artist's 'gallows' signature) and numbered in pencil, 2/3, at lower left.
Begun in 2009 as an ironic, tongue-in-cheek (but not really), provocative week of happenings, National Art Hate Week was begun by Billy Childish who explained that it was meant to "give the UK's art institutions 'a necessary kicking' by calling for the public to stage a silent revolt and visit a local gallery to actively hate its contents . . . the point is to take a closer, more honest look at what's on show in public galleries and be unafraid to loathe it violently. With prejudice." (The Guardian, July 13, 2009) Childish and his prankster co-conspirators Jimmy Cauty and Steve Lowe, "believe their campaign of sustained hate will liberate the public and that National Art Hate Week will shatter the common consensus on artists such as Andy Warhol, Peter Doig, Pablo Picasso. 'Galleries claim they're challenging us [the public] – we're challenging their challenge,' says Lowe. Participants will be encouraged to be honest about work they find 'boring and hateful, otherwise deemed stimulating and interesting by curators.
