It’s Turner Time

The shortlist for the Turner Prize has been announced and with it is a number of pieces that some folk might find difficult to realise as art (as per usual). The Guardian newspaper describes Simon Starling’s ‘Shedboatshed’ thus:

Starling’s installation
will keep alive the Turner’s tradition of eccentricity. The artist
describes Shedboatshed as ‘a reinterpretation of the idea of mobile
architecture’. The structure started life as a wooden shed on the banks
of the Rhine, which Starling spotted while cycling past. He dismantled
it and used the wood to construct a traditional Wiedling boat, in which
he drifted downstream to the centre of Basle in Switzerland.

He
then rebuilt the shed in its new location. ‘Spending a month turning a
shed into a boat only to turn it back into a shed seems wilfully
absurd,’ he says. ‘Hopefully that has some resonance in a world at
which everything happens at such high speed.’

I suppose it makes sense after all….

Turner Prize
Guardian Review