{"id":24,"date":"2012-11-19T13:35:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T13:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/?p=24"},"modified":"2012-11-19T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T13:52:11","slug":"the-fake-gallery-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"The Fake Gallery 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-24 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_1317.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_1317-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_1317-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_1317-240x240.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_13301.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_13301-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_13301-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_13301-240x240.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_1329.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_1329-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_1329-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_1329-240x240.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_13171.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_13171-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_13171-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_13171-240x240.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_1327.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_1327-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_1327-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_1327-240x240.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In response to some early debate on Sharkforum Chicago I played around with multiple identities and created my own &#8216;Fake&#8217; gallery which showed various &#8216;personas&#8217; artworks in different styles &#8211; all mine ( a bit like an artistic Pessoa \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<header>\n<h1>The Fake Artist and the Fake\u00a0Gallery<\/h1>\n<div>Posted on <a title=\"6:10 pm\" href=\"http:\/\/belcheresque.wordpress.com\/2006\/01\/09\/the-fake-artist-and-the-fake-gallery\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time datetime=\"2006-01-09T18:10:00+00:00\" pubdate=\"\">January 9, <a href=\"http:\/\/buycheapviagras.com\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">seek<\/a>  2006<\/time><\/a><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here a further response to the Mark Staff Brandl article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharkforum.org\/\">sharkforum.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"faking it\" href=\"http:\/\/mysite.orange.co.uk\/flyinshoes\/fake.htm\" target=\"_blank\">FAKING IT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article really hits home from the perspective of an \u2018ex\u2019 artist, future artist struggling to deal with the multiplicity of styles and cliques now infecting the British \u2018Body Artistic\u2019. I was a party to the initial infection of \u2018oblique strategy\u2019 art through a couple of interviews for Goldsmith\u2019s College of Art here in the late 1980?s ( ironically just before the Brit-Art boom).<\/p>\n<p>I was discarded as being too \u2018traditional\u2019 at these interviews and responded by disappearing literally to the countryside where I grew up to complete the supposed \u2018reactionary\u2019 art I was accused of. I ceased exhibiting soon after and have led a merry dance around the genres ever since and in fact came across r.d.roth of sharkforum in that dance.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed then and it seems now that a a badly misunderstood \u2018mission statement\u2019 based on an outpouring of cobbled together cod philosophy (especially French) actually mattered more than an ability to develop or complete a substantial body of work. This trend has thrived like a virus especially in regard to art-training which has shed all pretence to accomodate \u2018skills\u2019 in favour of \u2018networking\u2019 and \u2018business acumen\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>As an example of how far this trend predominates I recently had a show where I instinctively felt that my actual \u2018work\u2019 ( traditional landscape drawings influenced by Paul Nash ) were irrelevant to my audience and in a fit of pique I started drawing on the day of the show a series of sarcastic and irreverant cartoons about the art-world in Nottingham on basis if you can\u2019t beat them join them! I immediately gained attention, some small renumeration and a possible future show\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I feel that I have stumbled into that world the article describes of small pecks at the rhino\u2019s hide in search of my own artistic salvation. I increasingly over last decade and a half admired \u2018polymath\u2019 souls such as Butch Hancock (musician\/photographer) and anybody operating well away from the main stream especially so-called \u2018outsider art\u2019 as they seemed immune to this \u2018tainted generation\u2019s\u2019 stylistic morass.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that artists have two choices\u2026travel to Rome and adopt the clothes of the conquerer\u2019s and become \u2018curators\u2019 or walk to the furthest edges and break down fences that border the still wild and unexplored possibly with multiple personas\u2026.Pessoa comes to mind and in his spirit I have invented any number of \u2018Fake\u2019 musicians and artists recently\u2026.indeed to the point where I declared myself a <a title=\"fake gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/mysite.orange.co.uk\/flyinshoes\/fake.htm\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Fake Gallery<\/a>\u2018and declared my various \u2018styles\u2019 separate personas\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Only in fakery did I become real\u2026<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In response to some early debate on Sharkforum Chicago I played around with multiple identities and created my own &#8216;Fake&#8217; gallery which showed various &#8216;personas&#8217; artworks in different styles &#8211; all mine ( a bit like an artistic Pessoa \ud83d\ude42 The Fake Artist and the Fake\u00a0Gallery Posted on January &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/?p=24\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Fake Gallery 2006<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artwork"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p37gZu-o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/artwork\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}