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Andrew Logan An artistic adventure is a beautifully designed art book with full-page color photographs of international life and work of Andrew Logan filled. (I resisted the temptation to rip the photos provided from the book, with a frame and hang them on my walls!). Philip Hughes, the director of the Ruthin Craft Center, editor of the book wrote the forward to burning. The famous art critic, wrote Lady Marina Vaizey of initiation and the awesome text is supplied byFennah Podschies.
Andrew Logan, who was a student at the Oxford School of Architecture in the early sixties, deserves respect. He is an artist who iconoclasm has worked prolifically in a wide range of "media art", including Sculpture, Portrait and jewelry design since the early seventies.
"For him, everything is to believe. He has taken a dream from the sky, its clouds covered towers and gorgeous palaces with everything you and I threw away ... He builtis of most artists, who made no distinction between life and art, worship, "is an apt description of the late Derek Jarman, a friend and collaborator who once lived in a studio of Andrew's old home in Butler's Wharf before their building burned down in 1979.
Over the years Andrew has worked with artists such as global Brian Eno, and admire its patron list reads like a list of Who's Who. The late Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Bono, JulieChristie, Anita Pallenberg are just some of his followers. Andrew Logan's work has been exhibited around the world, including the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, the Flower East Gallery in London, the Victoria Art Museum, the Hayward Gallery, Bonhams, the National Portrait Gallery, Sotheby in London, the Royal Academy of Arts and Somerset House.
Andrew is also famous for his Alternative Miss World contests that he has been hosting since 1972.
"A surreal art eventfor round family entertainment, "is how he describes it.
Some of the biggest names in fashion, art and media have participated, either as participants or judges. David Hockney has been a judge on more than one occasion.
"Art has the conestants' costumes, and audience" was wide-ranging and often surprising, and some have become notorious, "the book explains chronichler.
His first contest was thrown into one of his former LondonStudios, a converted factory in Jigsaw Downham Road in Hackney with himself in the role of the two hosts. Since then, there were eleven Alternative Miss World competitions, including fourth place in a tent on Clapham Common in 1978. The late actor Divine was one of the presenters, and the judges, including Lionel Bart and Joan Bakewell locked in a cage.
"The Orthodox world I live in threatens the free spirits, these opportunities to get started with aExuberance and joy, indignation one million matrons .... It is like a gallery walk under the brilliant works of art - everyone enjoys everyone. Most brilliant of all - Andrew Logan - creators, magicians, puppeteers, promoter of choice, "says Bakewell.
Which premiered resultant Alternative Miss World film directed by Richard Gayer, at the Odeon Leicester Square and Cannes. It was also notorious for obtaining an injunction from the organizers of the annual Miss World beauty contest.The case was thrown out of court by the judge, Lord Denning, who said that nobody was likely to confuse the two events. The lawyer was the case, Tony Blair, who went to the Prime Minister of Great Britain!
The book's chapters are devoted to the existence of Andrew Logan's as eccentric and original artists. The Alternative Miss World events are recorded in photographic detail, as well as his portraits of celebrity icons such as Elizabeth Taylor, his close friend, Zandra Rhodes andMaria Callas. Its unique glass ornaments are often decorated with stuck on incongruous objects, was described by George Melly as "Faberge of the eighties."
"The Mirror of the Universe has my life for thirty years. It turns energy like no other material. The humble grain of sand glittering glass," Andrew explains his passion for working with glass.
'Andrew Logan worked as a sculptor and Master of Ceremonies in a world of artistic adventure, in thisconstructed universe as Lewis Carroll's alternative, full of the unexpectedly large infinitely small, and the suspension of belief is rewarded with extraordinary surprises, "is just one deep from the quotations in the book.
On the back of the book are several pages with dedications to wide circle of Andrew's friends with the fascinating title of "gods and goddesses, most of which are in circulation in orbit a year.
So, drool over the sensational color photographs of his belonging to aOgle jewelry and art and his life-size sculptures, some of which appear in his extraordinary home, The Glasshouse Studio by Michael Davis, his partner developed. One of Andrew's most famous sculptures Pegasus: A memorial for Hope (1980 with further interpretations and editions to 2008). He's first on the idea of Pegasus, for the production of this sculpture series led years later, as a child of 11 years. Obsessed by the Greek and Roman myth, his imaginationfired from the white winged horse that sprang from the severed neck of the Gorgon slain by Perseus, hero. Wings were a theme in the work of Andrew's, manifested first in the early sculptures in the cracked mirror of the birds. Andrew Logan has often said that during the process of creating, he felt that he was "a tool, which symbolize a bridge between the Pegasus physical and spiritual dimensions, and that the winged horse and his message of hope was one of the world. "Indeed, Pegasus: A memorial for HopeThe first sculpture, Andrew Logan after the fire, Butler's Wharf Studio. Since then he has a new Pegasus set up in each decade.
Although you still get the full impact of Andrew Logan An artistic adventure without reading the words of the text plays a crucial role for the understanding of Andrew's work and life. But it is the exquisite photographs that help the truly brilliant art book to the final single and their most eccentric artist in England. He is such aDenver, I am sure that this interesting book is the first of his many retrospectives to come.
Copyright: Frances Lynn, 2008
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