'Arc' by Jake Francis
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By Signature Art Prize 2019/20
This work is currently shortlisted for the Signature Art Prize 2019/20. If you wish to purchase this piece it will be available after the 13th February 2020. About the artist: Since graduating from art school, Jake Francis has meekly maintained the illusion of being a successful practitioner. Exhibiting both nationally and internationally in a myriad of exhibitions, low-budget films, and editorial features, Jake has aggressively cast aside any hope for achieving gainful employment in lieu of delusional hopes. Contributing to a number of online and print books/magazines, Jake encapsulates the problem with our new western generations - permitting anyone with enough persistence or lack of talent to secure a soapbox of opinion, regardless of wants or relevancy. About the work: House of cards phrase/idiom 1) a structure built out of playing cards precariously balanced together. used to refer to an insubstantial or insecure situation or scheme. "the special constitutional arrangement collapsed like a house of cards" Embodying our postmodern condition of appropriation, Arc (2019) seeks to visualise the tiers of inauthentic actions and ideas. With reference to Patricia Caulfield's original photograph as the installation's foundation, the piece then presents a trajectory throughout art history, with Andy Warhol and Elaine Sturtevant sustaining the higher tiers respectively. As each artist 'builds' upon the other's exploits, the question of originality and trend is brought into 'frame'. As decadent ideas such as unique expression is romanticised within the arts, it is in fact merely starting off where others have 'finished' - reforming one's ideas through 'the ready formed dictionary' of Roland Barthes' teachings; the positivity or accessibility of this sentiment, however, is yet to decided - hence the presence of Broodthaers-like barriers at its perimeter.
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