"The duo describe their installation The Audience as "a meditation on spectatorship in the age of image overload and attention deficit". To this end, they have converted the former council chamber into an auditorium peopled with a smattering of eerily life-like mannequins who eat popcorn and gaze at a screen depicting a miasma of blurred images but with clearly audible sound."
"They nearly share a name and they both have iconic status. They are also both extremely sprightly considering their greatly advanced years. It was hard to tell who was the more excited when Mick (Jagger) met Michelangelo (Pistoletto) for the first time at the opening of Nahmad Projects's exhibition, which intersperses 15 of Pistoletto's new Mirror Paintings with classic Cubist paintings by Pablo Picasso."
Prada Mode staged an occupation of the former Camden Town Hall in collaboration with artists Elmgreen & Dragset. The duo converted the former council chamber into an auditorium populated by eerily lifelike mannequins that eat popcorn and gaze at a screen showing blurred abstract images with clearly audible sound. The installation, titled The Audience, presents a constantly looping film of beautiful abstract images while foregrounding spoken dialogue that critiques brief art-viewing attention spans. The piece forces viewers to arrive late and remain silent. Separately, Mick Jagger met artist Michelangelo Pistoletto at Nahmad Projects, where 15 new Mirror Paintings were shown alongside Picasso Cubist works.
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