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More Foie Gras, Please

by Georgia Haagsma
Greta Alfaro, Poppy Bisdee, Gabriella Boyd, Jonny Briggs, Adeline de Monseignat, Max Dovey, Tom Howse, Ali Kazim, Soheila Sokhanvari, Julia Vogl at Londonewcastle Project Space May 3rd, 2012 - May 25th, 2012
Posted 5/20/12

In a space filled with beautiful people indulging on foie gras canapés and strawberry cocktails someone silenced the audience to announce the winners of the Catlin Art Prize 2012. I couldn’t help but suppress the feeling that the culinary extravagance was in slight contradiction with the introductory text in the exhibition catalogue, in which Paul Carey-Kent aptly writes that the main downside for recently graduated artists is the current state of the economy – and that only a minority of pract... [more]