Bedwyr Williams, 2019
Artists That Make Boring Books
Magnet
10 x 8.25 cm

An excerpt from a series of thirty-eight line drawings titled “Adjunct Curator,” which satirize various art-world personas.

In his Artforum review of this body of work, Calum Sutherland notes "In our modish times, I can only wish you luck in dealing with the grinning “curator with chummy youth leader vibe,” the glazed solemnity of the “boring artist with an interesting name,” the grimace of the tote-bag-toting “toddler faced art fanatic” or the bespectacled smugness of a “curator spattered with poo by performance artist he commissioned.”

The caricatures all have the same small, square format and are, like many people in the art world, framed in black. Each one captures the sense of remove felt in the shallow sociality of exhibition openings or art fairs with their curated wine, hasty introductions, and whispered gossip."