Art in Ruins

Art in Ruins. Trust Us,1997

Art in Ruins was formed in 1984 as a collaborative interventionist practice in art and architecture, staging exhibitions, and publishing texts, by artists Hannah Vowles and Glyn Banks.^[1][2][3][4]

History and practice

Art in Ruins, based in Bloomsbury, London, utilizes 1960s conceptual art strategies popularized by Art & Language and Gilbert and George.^[4] Works include Trust Us (1997) and We Like You (1995).^[4] Their reaction to current art is "iconoclastic"^[5] with "a sort of supersensitivity to the politics of art."^[6] They curated the exhibition "Our Wonderful Culture" (St George's Crypt, Bloomsbury 1995) and collaborated with Stewart Home, Ed Baxter, and others on "Ruins of Glamour, Glamour of Ruins" (Chisenhale Gallery 1986) and "Desire in Ruins" (Transmission Gallery, Glasgow 1987).^{[7] [8] [9]} Since the early 1990s, they have been a "mirror image" to the Young British Artists, such as Damien Hirst, using similar techniques, including ready-made objects, but satirising self-expression and focusing on art's economic basis.^[10] Art in Ruins "may be a group, but they are first and foremost a demolition squad whose target is the last vestiges of value........more than a name," Art in Ruins "is a whole programme."^[11]

Their work has been exhibited in major cities throughout Europe.^{[12] [13] [14]} They have been on the faculty of the Art and Architecture program at the Kent Institute of Art & Design,^[15] and with the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. In 1991 Art in Ruins were awarded the DAAD Berliner Kunstlerprogramm Stipendium.^[16]

Art in Ruins has been in limbo since 2001. This 'silence' is the subject of some of artist Eva Weinmayr's works.^[17][18] and it has also been the subject of two editions of "Wavelength" arts programme on Resonance FM.^{[19] [20]}

Notes and references

Further reading

• Art in Ruins (Group of artists) (1991). ANC. London: Gimpel Fils. OCLC 78371071. 
• Musée Sainte-Croix (1990). Resistances : Absalon, Art in ruins, Véronique Joumard, Serge Kliaving : Poitiers, Musée Sainte-Croix, 16 Mars-15 mai 1990. Poitiers: le Musée. ISBN 2-903015-10-4. OCLC 81658785. 
• Christine Frisinghelli and Manfred Willman, ed. (1994). Camera Austria. Graz, Austria: Manfred Willman. ISSN 10151915. 
• Nic Clear, ed. (September 2009). "Architectures of the Near Future". Architectural Design (London: Wiley & Son): 92–95. ISBN 978-0-470-69955-3. 
• Hannah Vowles and Glyn Banks, Art in Ruins (January 2010). "The Triumph of Culture". RIBA Journal (London: Atom Publishing): 36–39. ISSN 1463-9505.  [1]
• Glyn Banks and Hannah Vowles (March 2011). Arthur and Marilouise Kroker. ed. "The Triumph of Culture". CTheory.net (Victoria, Canada: University of Victoria). http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=682. 

External links

Art in Ruins