Kent Print Collection 5th Exhibition
28 May – 14 June 2013
Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm
What is a celebrity? A ‘human pseudo-event’ overshadowing genuine heroes? ‘The spectacular representation of a living human being’ in a society defined by spectacle where social relations are mediated by images? A readily available ‘dream that money can buy’ in the photographic brothel? Or is a celebrity a ‘mythical concept’ where myth is understood to be a system of communication, where the material of the message has already been worked on to enhance its suitability for communication, and where the mythical concept’s fundamental property is to be appropriated?
[From the catalogue essay by Ben Thomas]
Artists exhibited: Banksy; Sir Peter Blake; Blek le Rat; Jason Brooks; D*Face; John Dove and Molly White; Gary Hume; GSG; Alan Kitching; Gerald Laing; Pure Evil; Marc Quinn; John Stezaker; Joe Tilson; Gavin Turk; Stella Vine; Andy Warhol; Jonathan Yeo; Russell Young