Art in Ruins

Art in Ruins

Art in Ruins was formed in 1984 as a collaborative interventionist practice in art and architecture, staging exhibitions and publishing texts. [cite journal|journal=Ctheory.net|date=1995|title=Dramatising contradictions|author=Hannah Vowles and Glyn Banks|url=http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=251] [cite book|author=Glyn Banks and Hannah Vowles|title=New Realism: From the museum of ruined intentions|location=London|publisher=Gimpel Fils|date=1987|oclc=19809582] [cite book |last=Watson |first=Gray |coauthors=Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England) and Stoke-on-Trent (England), City Museum and Art Gallery |title=Art in ruins |location=London |publisher=Institute of Contemporary Arts |date=1986 |isbn=0905263065 |oclc=22669762] Its members are Hannah Vowles and Glyn Banks.Coles, Alex. "Appearances are Against Us", "Art and Text", Los Angeles, July 2000.]

Art in Ruins is based in Bloomsbury, London, and inherits the 1960s legacy of Art & Language and Gilbert and George. Works include "Trust Us" (1997) and "We Like You" (1995). Their reaction to current art is "iconoclastic" [Corris, Michael. "Artforum", New York, September 1991.] with "a sort of supersensitivity to the politics of art." [Beech, Dave. "Art Monthly", London, July/August 1998.] 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. [Jones, Jonathan. "The Guardian", London, 15 December 1999.] Art in Ruins "may be a group, but they are first and foremost a demolition squad whose target is the last vestiges of value."Perrin, Frank."European Guerillas" "Kanal" No 2, April/May 1992]

Their work has been exhibited in major cities throughout Europe. [cite web|url=http://www.lcca.lv/projects/utopia/art_in_ruins/|title=Contemporary Utopias, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Arts, April/May 2001] They have been on the faculty of the Art and Architecture program at the Kent Institute of Art & Design, [cite web|url=http://www.kiad.ac.uk/alumni/archive/arch.html|title="Building for tomorrow: the Canterbury School of Architecture"] and with the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. In 1991 Art in Ruins were awarded the DAAD Berliner Kunstlerprogramm Stipendium.cite book |author=Irit Rogoff |title=Terra Infirma: Geography's Visual Culture |location=London and New York |publisher=Routledge |date=2000 |isbn=4150096162 pp 56-60.

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