What do you do with a birdcage, sugar, an egg and two
pebbles? A sculpture maybe?
Shane Waltener’s Slip Slap Slop exhibition at MKgalerie
features some 15 sculptures from the Ready Steady Sculpt
series. Assembled from the artist’s own personal belongings
domestic ware, cooking utensils, artworks and craft items
including pieces by Franz West and Zaha Hadid, these
works survey the artist’s ongoing interest in craft and design
practices and their positioning with relation the contemporary
art object.
Alongside the sculptures, a large graffiti mural will be shown,
the result of a collaboration between Waltener,
DJ Spacemaker and graffiti artists IVES.one, KOOS.F.
If graffiti is about talking back and self-affirmation, it is also
about speed. One works quickly before getting caught.
With this in mind, the mural will be produced only days prior
the opening, with each artist pooling inspiration from each
other work as it is being produced, the sculptures on show
and the music played throughout this time. Slip Slap Slop
is the last of a series of Sweet Graffiti projects, initially
conceived for Tate Britain in 2006, and further developed
at the Fresh Paint exhibition at MKgalerie (Berlin) in 2007,
Cooking and Constructing at Platform 21 (Amsterdam) and
A World of Food Around You at the Teatro del Parco
(Parma) in 2008.
Shane Waltener lives and works in London.
Projects include Fabric of Myth, Compton Verney (2008),
Tatton Park Biennial, Tatton Park, Knutsford (2008);
A World of Food Around You, Teatro Al Parco, Parma (2008);
Cooking and Constructing, Platform 21, Amsterdam (2008);
Radical Lace, Subversive Knitting, Indiana State Museum
(2008) and Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2007);
nEUclear reactions, CAB, Burgos, Spain (2006) and
National Gallery, Prague (2006);
Cake For Me Bread For The Others, MKgalerie.nl, (2006);
Celebration, Pump House Gallery, London (2005);
Métissages, MIAT, Ghent, Belgium (2005).
IVES.one is based in Amsterdam.
KOOS.F. in Rotterdam.
DJ Spacemaker.in Rotterdam