Go Bananas!

Hatched Gallery is pleased to announce Go Bananas! a conceptual group exhibition, curated by Blair Lamar.
 
Go Bananas! will present an exhibition as an art form in itself.  This group art show is a series of art works that have been inspired by The Banana. The Banana is nourishing, humorous, and iconic, and has been inspiring films, the stage, music and art for centuries.
 
Performers on Vaudeville began using a banana in their slapstick comedy. Even the most dexterous performers couldn’t combat the power a banana peel had to make them slip and fall.
 
Banana shortages in the 1920’s prompted famous melody’s like, “Yes, We Have No Bananas”, by Silver and Cohn. Not only was it the most sold sheet music for decades, this little number continued to be used again and again, such as a theme for outdoor relief protests in Belfast in 1932 and WWII.
 
A leader in art, Andy Warhol helped make banana-imagery famous as a result of his celebrated album cover for The Velvet Underground & Nico - so famous in fact that The Warhol Foundation was sued over the rights of the iconic image. More recently, graffiti artist Bansky produced the notorious image of a scene from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, which featured Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta clutching bananas instead of guns. This was estimated to be worth £300,000 and was painted over by the London Underground. Banksy later did a second depiction of this piece showing real guns instead of bananas, but the actors themselves were adorned in banana costumes.
 
As an artist Blair Lamar is very familiar with the creative process that goes into creating a body of work. With this show, Blair is interested in the dynamic created by having different artists, each with their own individual creative processes, being inspired by the same central idea of Go Bananas! How will each contemporary artist interpret, approach and be influenced by the iconic Banana? Would the humour associated throughout history continue, or will modern creative minds look at the Banana, take it apart and reinvent it in a different way?
 
The term "Go Bananas!" is American slang. It means to be irrational, wild and lose control. Blair hopes this exhibition encourages each artist to let loose within their own work, and that this energy will create a fun and unique experience for each visitor of the show.

Private View Sunday 12:00 - 16:00