CUBE

First let me review the exhibition at CUBE...

Previously Christian Jankowski had put on his "Perfect Gallery" exhibition at the Pump House in London. Now this major exhibtion at CUBE is "based" on the one down at the Pump House.

The basic premise is that the gallery becomes the exhibit so there is nothing on display but the gallery itself.

However, unlike the Pump House where CJ had been involved in the transformation nothing here had actually been changed, other than the previous exhibits had been removed and the walls given a fresh coat of paint!! Infact CJ hasn't even been to CUBE and his involvement has been minimal!!!

From my perspective the gallery feels empty, sparse but with nothing on the walls it returns to its warehouse origins. The trouble I was having in this installation (if you can call it that) is that I had been to CUBE several times before so I was well aware of the layout of the gallery and with nothing having been changed it spoilt the effect for me.

It also felt like I was viewing an empty flat in a warehouse conversion and I was not going to be able to buy it even if I had wanted to!!

Although there was a clash of the old beams and joists and the new bare walls where many exhibits have previously been shown it all came across as being lonely, too plain, sterile even. This was magnified as I was the only person in the whole gallery.

There is a separate dark room showing the BBC program giving the background to the exhibit and describes the installation as an alternative view in a different way, and that it is dynamic.

Personally I felt that it was lacking and left me cold.