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July 4, 2008 11:31 am
Artists are often stereotyped as brooding misanthropes who equate antisocial behavior with originality and integrity. And art communities are often perceived as cliquish scenes closed to the uninitiated. But London-based Matthew Stone is a real-deal artist who creates work that is unique, wondrous, and exciting precisely because it’s neither hostile nor exclusive. Stone’s photographs, films, and performances are all by-products of his complex word-of-mouth happenings, in which viewers are invited to participate the divisions between art and play, audience and artist, are all submerged into one harmonious stew. In explaining his July 5 transformation of London’s Alma Enterprises into a temporary artists’ salon/Sunday morning disco, Stone says, “We’re installing a stage throughout the entire gallery, which in a very simple way suggests that everything that occurs within the space will be an elevated performance, whether conscious or not. The different nature of the two events will allow for the different ways that artists/shamans approach knowledge.”
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