Is The Turner Prize 2024 REALLY a 1* show?

[@alexandramuller4350]

I like the installation by Delaine Le Bas. I’ve never know of her before, so thank you for this video and your research. I feel the chaotic flow challenges the bourgeois narratives of art, such as ‘good art’ is having the privilege and stability to stick to one subject and medium. To follow a specific capitalist constant progression route. However that isn’t a true reflection of living for everyone or art. Life can be turbulent, unpredictable and leave us vulnerable. These feelings appear to be challenged in this installation giving us a sense of our own mortality and uncertainty. There is no comfort.

[@AdelizaFineArt]

Thanks for this !

[@RoyGreen-ee1bq]

thanks...Claudette Johnson's skill rises above the rest...I prefer painting to un-painting...

[@artgalleryexplorer]

I can see why. I thought Pio Abad's screen prints also showed a huge amount of skill.

[@lazygazzzer]

Those portraits by Claudette Johnson are excellent, good technique and sensitively done. The rest of it you can sum up by the blight that has afflicted museums for years - Curators with an agenda setting out to educate the public.

[@westerling8436]

People should realize that artists aren't smarter than other people

[@furstname_lastname]

do we not all realize this? 😂

[@westerling8436]

@@furstname_lastname people walking around during modern art shows holding their chin with their index finger on their lower lip don't

[@furstname_lastname]

@@westerling8436thanks for the expert opinion

[@Godfree1212]

The vast majority do. 🎉

[@georgegiann6090]

+ thanks so much for this video presentation of the Turner prize, I know the people down under would also appreciate it. Excellent wrap up also. Keep up the great work

[@ChrisC-ei2kc]

Landfill.

[@artgalleryexplorer]

I got something out of some of it, but not out of a lot!

[@ChrisC-ei2kc]

@@artgalleryexplorer Of course the black painter will win the cheque.

[@chompers11]

​@@ChrisC-ei2kc damn bro look within yikes

[@lobstermash]

Obviously Claudette Johnson is a skilled painter and drawer and her work is very good but not in any way unusual. The other work looked to me quite dated, but then conceptual art often does look dated because it is so "trendy". It wasn't well executed. The Honda with the doily was just daft.

[@artgalleryexplorer]

Definitely - that was my issue with the middle two. Conceptually potentially quite interesting but the execution felt as if I'd been there/done that before.

[@jolloyd1247]

Good drawer ??. Something a 5 year old would say.

[@willhemmings]

Claudette Johnson for me - vital, intimate, personal

[@ChrisC-ei2kc]

Do you know or are you acquainted with Tracey Emin? and I'm guessing your next instalment will be the Bacon Sensation?

[@narasimha7187]

The doily on the sports car is brilliant!! Also 25 Gs is less than a Drag Race winner gets! Getting dragged up at that level does take more effort thoost probs!

[@star_wars_miniatures]

I think George Dopamine (hope I’ve spelled your name correctly)😅deserves the turner prize this year! Due to your hard work and amazing effort bringing amazing art videos to all of us!! Your enthusiasm for art is infectious!

[@artgalleryexplorer]

Thank you as always - George Dopamine has followed me since the rave era of the late 80's early 90's!

[@ChrisC-ei2kc]

@@artgalleryexplorer The dead can dance.

[@aoae-hf3rz]

i thought this was exceptionally well done, the execution was so flawless it would have blended in seamlessly in an actual museum collection on display - the subversion is truly peak. These pieces are painfully clever, they go so subtly hard the tongue went straight through the cheek. I cannot see the 1* making sense unless the critics were particularly offended or turned off by the message behind it all - methinks the "go woke go broke" police got to this one.

[@westerling8436]

Sarcasm

[@timcase3271]

Wow ive never seen such talent. Hang on,

[@59jaguar]

Good exhibit and good review. Thanks

[@artgalleryexplorer]

Thank you for watching and commentating.

[@TonyWarner8rabbit]

Will you be going to the francis bacon show at the national portrait gallery its up there as one of the best focused on the early works its a gob smacker and thanks for your youtube gallery visits 👍

[@streamlight1]

Contrary to what most people seem to think in this comment section, I actually really enjoyed the work of Jasleen Kaur. A very contemporary take on autobiographical work that I found engaging - her work just had a nice feeling about it. The rest was a little lackluster, some of Pio Abad's work I enjoyed. Le Bas felt uninspired and manic and Johnson I found just a bit boring really (she is talented though of course). Not an amazing show overall I don't think

[@Thamesfisher]

Is this really Art ??? Not in my eyes.

[@furstname_lastname]

good to know, I was losing sleep over this.

[@WendySmith-l8i]

A very interesting assessment of the show for which thank you. I'm not able to visit currently but can see it's not for me I'm glad I saw Presence at the Courtauld. I arrived early and was on my own with Claudette Johnson's huge works. A powerful experience .

[@artgalleryexplorer]

Oh, great. I wish I had seen that at the Courtauld as opposed to here. I think they I better suited to that space. I take it you think she should win?

[@WendySmith-l8i]

@@artgalleryexplorer I think it wouldn't be fair to answer that as I am unfamiliar with the other artists and their work. Best wishes W

[@weeleelee5843]

The Pio Abad is stunning, in person, and Claudette Johnson is a superb artist. The other two were pointless, imho.

[@Ambaria]

I really liked Dopamine was it hights, that you had generously named your choice of residence. To be more straightforward, what and how do you feel about the present day art after the young british artist’s effects on the culture, has art become more straightforward or does there exists an attitude in the making process of art that has always been there along the pop culture of the isles as well?

[@artgalleryexplorer]

Thank you for watching and a really interesting question. I sadly think that there is quite small impact on wider culture from young British Art today. In the 1990's, at the height of the YBA movement, it interlinked with music, cinema, popular culture in general but I see less of this today. Some artists and collectives have a good social media presence and this spreads out a bit but it is often siloed. Artists like Kusama (not young or British) are 'Instagrammable' and so really popular. Maybe I am getting too old to see it. Dopamine Heights is definitely a state of mine :)

[@desertstar223]

Except for Claudette Johnson, the rest is just bs

[@SoHungry666]

Mediocre.

[@artgalleryexplorer]

Sadly, yes. Not terrible, just average.

[@marthaevans8270]

Thank you for this exposition! I agree that these installations lost their focus, puzzling the visitor who carelessly walks past verbose prose explanations that do not enrich the images that surround them. The silly Ford Escort belongs in a junkyard where sculptors can pull them apart and convey more cogent meanings out of them. Like the recent Hurricane Helene, the viewer must grope Chaos around these phantasms, seeking to clear them rather than lingering to make sense of the senseless. As one who came to the art scene in 1950 as the world began to attempt a more humane global culture be it the UN, the Commonwealth, NATO or the EU, this amateur critic seeks some balance in solving the dilemmas posed by the past with the burgeoning threats of the present. The Turner Prize has an opportunity to ally itself with metaphors associated with forces of cultural change and resonance.

[@artgalleryexplorer]

A really interesting comment. I think there is a real attempt from Pio Abad to grapple with one of THE big themes of the current art movement - colonialism and Britain's relationship with it and that is true across a lot of contemporary art that I see. I think you are referring to Damiàn Ortega's 'Cosmic Thing' when talking about deconstructing a car? I saw that work in Malmo years ago and loved it!

[@marthaevans8270]

I've accepted the aesthetic challenge of 'junk' sculpture,wishing I could weld. STANKEWICZ'S sculptures are favorites. I used to go to junkyards with a boyfriend. I collect rusty bits of detritus. In considering the relevance of the doily covered vehicle in the Turner Prize exhibition to global colonialism, I am not convinced of its lasting expression on that front. If the judges agree that the art world needs more bloated balloon toys, enveloping installations of crocheted creatures, I am happy that I can flip through google images, rather seeing pompous twaddle about them in expensive art journals.

[@bernmahan1162]

It has become predictably mindless. If you have to explain your concept then your artwork is probably not speaking for itself. If the cleaners throw it away in the night you are really not cut out for the world of art.

[@frogtastic1000]

It's pretty awful art tbh...

[@artgalleryexplorer]

Some had merit but I agree, a lot didn't.

[@kalayne6713]

Concepts of art. Fail.

[@bellascharfenstein]

Amazing exhibition. art infused with meaning, questioning our present and our past and how that has created the present identity of UK, which could be threatening to 'traditional' Brits. I can imagine the 'establishment' would have torn this apart because it critiques what in many aspects has been a centuries old oppressive hegemony.

[@artgalleryexplorer]

Some certainly did. I suppose the most 'establishment' newspapers are The Times (1*) and Daily Telegraph (2*'s). I am glad you enjoyed it. As I said, I enjoyed some of it. Aesthetically, some pieces felt a bit tired.